38 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



where the LiHes would rise from ground rather 

 thickly grouped with hardy Ferns and low bushes 

 and plants of good foliage. Mr. R. W. Wallace of 

 Colchester, in his highly instructive paper read at the 

 meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on July 

 17, 1900, and published in that Society's Journal, 

 says : " An ideal spot for Lilies would be an open 

 forest glade with a small stream running through it, 

 near the banks of which the North American peat and 

 moisture-loving Lilies would flourish ; and higher up, 

 away from the water, clumps of auratum, washing- 

 tonianum, Huinboldti, giganteum, and all our finest 

 species, would readily grow." 



If Lilies were planted in such a place, one kind at 

 a time in fair quantity, we should be better able to 

 appreciate their beauty and their dignity than when 

 they are crowded among numbers of other flowers 

 in the garden borders. 



The value of rather close shelter of tree and bush 

 can scarcely be overrated, for the outlying branches 

 of the near bushes protect young Lily growths from 

 the late frosts that are so harmful, and the encircling 

 trees, not near enough to rob at the root or overhang 

 at the top, but so near as to afford passing shade and 

 to stop all violence of wind, give just the protection 

 that suits them best. 



It is a great advantage to have the Lilies in so well 

 sheltered a place that they need not be staked, for 

 staking deprives the plant of one of its beautiful ways, 

 that of swaying to the movement of the air. It would 

 scarcely be believed by any one who had not watched 



