66 LILJES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



faint tinge of its warm colour, to candiduin in its 

 port and texture of bloom — the resemblance to this 

 parent being perhaps strongest in the half-grown 

 state in the arrangement and carriage of the leaves. 



Certainly no one can deny the success of the 

 Japanese natural hybrid of auratuin and longiflorum, 

 if that be, as is supposed, the true parentage of 

 Lilium Alexandr(E, but then in the Lily world there 

 are not many such possible parents as those two 

 grand species. 



L. Burbanki, a hybrid of L. pardalinmn and L. 

 waskingtonianum, is well spoken of, and there is 

 reason to believe that Mr. Burbank before long will 

 give the world some good new hybrids. The hybrids 

 of Martagon, such as Marhan (Martagon + Hansoni), 

 are without doubt interesting, and have a certain 

 degree of beauty, but the genus Lilium seems to 

 offer a field for the working of better things. It is 

 to be hoped that this industrious and able hybridist 

 or some other enthusiast will work among the white 

 Lilies. The orange yellows, in the croceum and 

 Martagon groups, are already so numerous, and to 

 the unlearned amateur so confusing, that the best 

 that can be done with them is to derive if possible 

 bold flowers of self colouring rather than a mere 

 series of connecting links between species of 

 secondary importance. It should be remembered 

 that what is wanted in a garden is beautiful flowers 

 rather than many different kinds of flowers. Many 

 a possibly lovely garden is ruined by too great a 

 mixture, and could only be redeemed by the practice 



