WAYS OF GROWING LILIES 39 



them unstaked, how variously and diversely graceful 

 are the natural movements of Lilies. If they are tied 

 up to stakes all this is necessarily lost, as is also the 

 naturally dignified and yet dainty poise of the whole 

 plant. 



Where the Lily groups have penetrated into true 

 woodland, a background of wild Bracken is the best 

 that can be. As the Lily ground approaches the 

 garden, clumps of Solomon's Seal would be admis- 

 sible, and that good woodland plant of allied char- 

 acter, Sniilacina racemosa, and plenty of our best hardy 

 Ferns, Male Fern, Lady Fern, Dilated Shield Fern, 

 and Osmunda, and some of the fine hardy American 

 Ferns, among them also some of the Osmundas, with 

 Onoclea and Adiantitm pedatuin. 



Where the Lilies actually join the garden ground, 

 no plant suits them so well as the bold-leaved Funkia 

 grandiflora. Liliunis longifolimn, Brow7ui, Krameri, and 

 speciosum are specially thankful for this association. 

 The Funkia also enjoys partial shade, for though it 

 flowers best in sun, yet the leaves burn in its fiercest 

 heat. No one would ever regret a good planting of 

 Lilium longifolium, Lady Fern, and Funkia. Ftmkia 

 grandiflora is the best of the family, because the leaves 

 are of the fresh, light, yellow-green colour that is so 

 becoming to white and tender-coloured flowers. 



Sometimes, where there is a permanent group of 

 Lilies in a place where the roots of trees would be 

 likely to rob a special compost, it is a good plan, as 

 has been practised at Mr. Wilson's, to plant the Lilies 

 in a sunk tub. 



