CHAPTER VIII 



LILIES IN THE ROCK-GARDEN 



When thinking of plants suitable for the rock-garden, 

 one does not always take Lilies into consideration, and 

 yet some of the very best effects may be obtained by 

 their use. 



In a rock-garden of large extent and bold features 

 there is no reason why nearly all but the very largest 

 Lilies should not be planted ; but even in smaller places 

 the bold and graceful upright Lily-form may often 

 redeem a rock-garden from the over-squatness of treat- 

 ment so often seen. Moreover, when one thinks of a 

 delicate and brilliant gem like tenuifolzmn, with its 

 scarlet turn-cap flower coming, as it does, so early in 

 the Lily season ; of the small-growing orange-coloured 

 philadelphicum ; of the many gorgeous and tender- 

 coloured varieties of elegans {thunbergianunt), with 

 their small stature and large bloom ; of concolor and 

 coridion, two charming dwarf kinds ; of the lovely pink 

 rubellum — one sees that Lilies in the rock-garden 

 should by no means be neglected. Several of the 

 species are from rocky lands, and the complete drain- 

 age of the upper portions of the rock-garden is greatly 

 in their favour. 



