36 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



LILIUM POMPONIUM (Northern Italy), Martagon 



A brilliant red turn-cap, much like chalcedonicum, 

 but the head of the flowers rather more loosely 

 arranged. It grows three feet high and is of easy 

 culture. 



LILIUM TENUIFOLIUM (Siberia), Martagon 



A small slender-growing Lily, not over a foot high, 

 with bright scarlet flowers. A pretty little plant, a 

 gem for the rock-garden, but probably only successful 

 in the hands of the careful amateur. We hear from 

 Mr. Max Leichtlin that a new stock should constantly 

 be grown from seed. It produces its greatest num- 

 ber of flowers — six to ten — in its fourth year, ripens 

 plenty of seed and then dies away by degrees. 



SUB-GENUS VI 



The sixth sub-genus, Notholirion, contains two plants, 

 L. Hookeri and L. roseum, which appear to be a link 

 between the Lilies and the Fritillaries. As they are 

 not generally known, and, compared with the distinct 

 Lilies, are not of much importance in our gardens, 

 they are not here described. 



