14 LILIES 



This is the one true lily that has so far Amer- 

 icanized itself as to have become an "escape"; 

 it is occasionally found wandering out to the 

 roadside from places where there was once a 

 garden. The finest of the several varieties is 

 L. t. splendens. The double form, though the 

 best double lily, is not worth while. 



Were its bloom not virtually coincident with 

 that of L. candidum, third place would be given 

 to the orange lily {L. croceum). It is "iron 

 clad," having stood the cottage garden test — 

 and there is no better recommendation for a lily 

 — time beyond memory. The bright orange 

 hue is wonderfully rich and glowing and the 

 erect blossoms are set so closely together that 

 the color is even more amenable to bold effects 

 than that of the tiger lily. 



These four lilies would glorify any garden 

 and may be called a perfectly safe, if not the 

 safest, quartet for northern precedence. Their 

 selection, however, is purely arbitrary. An- 

 other, for perhaps quite as good reasons, might 

 make a somewhat different choice ; for example, 

 L. tigrinum splendens, L, speciosum ruhrum 

 and L. tenuifolium have been grouped as the 

 most desirable three lilies for everyone. And 

 there you are. In the end it is the individual 



