CHAPTER XVII 



PROTECTION FROM SPRING FROSTS 



Again remembering that our garden Lilies come from 

 all countries in the northern half of the temperate 

 world, from valleys, mountains, rocky heights, and 

 swamps, we must be prepared for the fact that their 

 young growths pierce the ground at very different 

 dates, and that, though no doubt each Lily in its own 

 place comes out of the ground at the fittest season for 

 its new growth, when we put them into our gardens 

 we cannot suit them with the exact weather and 

 temperature and altitude that they would expect in 

 their own homes. 



It follows that most of the Lilies that come early 

 out of the ground will need some kind of protection. 

 The best protection of all is that of growing shrubs, 

 whose branches nearly meet over the spot where 

 the Lily is planted. This is one reason why it is 

 so strongly recommended that Lilium auratum and 

 others should be grown through and among Rhodo- 

 dendrons and other shrubs. 



The Lilies that like the closest growths around them 

 may be known by having the lower part of the stem 

 more or less bare of leaves, as is the case with 

 auratum; those which, like candidum, spire up from 



a thick leafy mass show that they do not need the 



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