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It gi'ows best in pure peat, and needs a very shady 

 situation. 



The flowers are white, delicately painted with 

 rich lake at the base of each petal. 



T. cenimim, the " Nodding Trillium," our most 

 common species, has small pjnkish-white flowers, 

 which nod beneath the leaves. It is not very 

 showy, and will grow in any garden soil. 



There are also some Southern species. 



All the Trilliums do best in rich, deep, peaty 

 loam : tliey are increased by seed or division, but 

 are somewhat impatient of removal. They should 

 be transplanted from the woods in early spring, and 

 soon domesticate themselves. 



The Lily. 



All the Lilies like a deep, rich soil, except perhaps 

 our wild blackberry lily, which thrives in dry sandy 

 loam; but some never display themselves in full 

 beauty except in a soil in which peat has been 

 mixed. 



This is especially the case with two of our native 

 species, L. superbum and canadense, the droopiag- 

 flowered lilies of the fields, which naturally grow in 

 rich meadows. These, removed to a Rhododendron- 

 bed, become plants of wonderful beauty. During 

 the last summer, we had about thirty specimens of 

 these species, not. one of which was less than five 

 feet in height, each stalk giving from ten to thirty 

 drooping flowers. The effect of these, rising from 

 the rich foliage of the Ehododendrons, was very 



