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shades which are very desirable. Longiflorum nvulti- 

 fiorum, so popular as an Easter lily, succeeds ad- 

 mirably in the open ground. LUmm Philippense, a 

 new lily from the Philippines, as its name indicates, 

 comes very highly recommended and much resembles 

 the Harrisi, but the flowers are rather more slender 

 and much longer — ^nearly nine inches — the diameter 

 of the flower being some six or seven inches, so it 

 wUl be seen that it is something of a flower. The 

 growth, however, is not as stately as that of the 

 candidum or auratum, being only about two feet high. 

 Browni is a beautiful lily, tall and stately, with trum- 

 pet shaped flowers of a creamy white inside and pur- 

 ple outside, while the beautiful Parryi — another trum- 

 pet-shaped flower — ^has long, wax-like chalices of 

 golden yellow, a color almost as desirable as white. 

 "Washingtonianum gigantium — a variety often reach- 

 ing the imposing height of six or eight feet, and 

 Hansoni, a beautiful yellow, dotted with purple, are 

 other of the rarer sorts, while any number of orange 

 red and spotted lilies are to be had, some of them 

 quite desirable, but should be selected from the blos- 

 soming plant rather than from the catalogues, to 

 avoid disappointment. 



Protect the lily bed in fall, after the ground has 

 frozen lightly, with a few inches of rough litter held 

 in place with brush and do not remove until severe 

 freezing weather has passed in the spring and then 



