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from the tenderness of colouring it loses by being in 

 the mixed border among brighter flowers. 



It is perhaps best seen in groups among pale 

 greenery of Fern or Funkia and backed by shrubs, or 

 in a fringe of garden woodland, though how good it 

 is in the mass in bold plantings may be seen by the 

 illustration showing it in quantity in a celebrated 

 Essex garden. 



In the good loamy soil that it likes it will grow 

 seven feet high, but it is perhaps best at a height of 

 from five to six feet. It makes no stem roots and 

 therefore does not need deep planting. 



LILIUM CHALCEDONICUM (Greece and Asia Minor), 



Martagon 



Scarlet Martagon 



One of the brightest of our summer flowers is the 

 scarlet Martagon or scarlet Turn-cap. Its stiff and yet 

 graceful stem bears its cluster of brilliant bloom at 

 the top, while the leaves, larger and longer below, 

 diminish as they rise and clothe the stem very 

 prettily. It has been in our gardens a little over a 

 hundred years. It likes a loamy soil, and as it makes 

 root only from the bulbs need not be planted 

 deep> 



L. chalcedonicum will bear drought better than most 

 Lilies, as it comes from near mountain tops of ranges 

 in Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It does not do 

 very much the first year after planting. Parkinson 

 calls it the Red Lily of Constantinople. 



