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becomiag crowded it will be necessary to take them all up and 

 separate them. Except for this cause, it will not he necessary 

 to disturb them. 



The following yarieties are well worthy of cultivation, and 

 without exception will wiater safely in the ground. 



Canadense. — ^This is the nodding LUy of our meadows, which 

 gratefully responds to the care of garden cultivation, increasing 

 in the size and number of its blooms. 



Candidum. — For purity and fragrance this old favorite 

 cannot be surpassed. Perfectly hardy, thriving in any garden, 

 yet grateful for a little care, which it repayS a himdred-fold, 

 filling the air with its sweetness, and arrayed in snowy white, 

 adorning alike the garden of the cottager or of the king. It 

 is ia bloom ' in July. There are varieties with golden and 

 silver striped leaves, with spotted, and striped, and double 

 flowers, but they are no improvement on the plain, single, pure 

 white LUy. 



Chaleedonicum. — ^Is very sho'vvy, the color being a very 

 brilliant scarlet 



Excelsum. — Grows as tall as Candidum, the flowers are a 

 Nankeen yellow. 



Lancifolium. — There are several varieties of this species, but 

 all are beautiful and very fragrant. They are delicately spotted 

 with ruby-red or rose-colored dots, and when once established in 

 good, loamy, well-drained soU, they will continue to increase in 

 the number and beauty of their flowers. 



Longiflorum. — The flowers are trumpet-shaped, from six to 

 nine inches in length, white, and very fragrant. Where the 

 winters are open, this species should be protected by a Kght 

 covering of litter. 



Superhum. — ^A very showy species, often producing twenty 

 flowers on a stalk, which are of a handsome reddish-orange color. 



Tigrinum. — ^The Tiger LUy has become almost as weU-known 

 as the White, and is a deserved favorite, being very hardy, and 

 producing an abundance of showy orange-scarlet flowers, spotted 



