CHAPTER IX 



LILIES IN POTS IN OUTDOOR GROUPS 



In a newly made garden, especially if it includes 

 architectural accessories, whether of refined and 

 classical character or roughly built of some local 

 stone, a great addition to the garden's beauty and 

 delightfulness is made by properly considered and 

 designed places for the standing of groups of plants 

 in pots. 



It would be the care of the designer so to draw his 

 plans that these spaces would not look hungry or 

 naked in winter, while in summer the plants should 

 appear to be occupying their own proper place, and 

 not be there as interlopers or clumsy afterthoughts. 

 The great advance of late years in the use of important 

 plants, such as Lilies and Cannas, makes the con- 

 sideration of such a department in garden design a 

 necessity. In many cases it may be a sunk bed in 

 the stone-work. Where it is to contain some of the 

 strongest growing plants, such as the older kinds of 

 Cannas of large stature, a bed may be best, but just 

 now it is the arrangement of plants in pots that is being 

 considered. Sheltered spots in connection with walled 

 garden courts are about the best places for such 

 groups, and Lilies will be the most important of the 

 plants used. 



