CHAPTER XI 



LILIES FOR TOWN GARDENS 



There is no better town plant than the grand Lilium 

 croceum. It seems to bear its well-filled heads of great 

 orange cups as willingly in a London square as in 

 a country garden, while the leaves show by their 

 deep green colour, and the whole plant by its robust 

 health and vigour, how little it cares about those 

 conditions of town life that are so surely fatal to 

 many plants. Indeed nearly all the Lihes named in 

 the chapter on the easiest grown garden Lilies will 

 do well in towns. They comprise — 



L. auratujn 

 L. Brow nil 

 L. caiididuni 

 L. chalcedoiiicum 

 L. croceum 

 L. davuricuin 

 L. elegans 



L. Huinboldti 

 L. longiflorum 

 L. pardali?m7n 

 L. pyrenaicum 

 L. testaceum 

 L. tigrinwn 



