18 LILIES 



from July to Angust. Then, in the same erect 

 class, there is the red star lUy (L, concolor), a 

 bright scarlet species, spotted red, that makes 

 a very good Asiatic substitute for the American 

 L. pMladelpMcum where the latter does not do 

 well. It blooms in June and July and is quite 

 dwarf. The varieties Coridion, rich yellow; 

 Partheneion, scarlet flushed with yellow, and 

 pulchellum, deep crimson, are all good. 



American lilies are grown mostly in English 

 gardens — ^where every one of the species is 

 treasured. The lack of home appreciation is 

 nothing short of deplorable. One of the noblest 

 of them, the swamp lily (L. superhum), will 

 flourish amazingly in an ordinary border if it 

 has only so much as a ground cover; in these 

 circumstances, without its wonted peaty soil and 

 moisture, it has been known to raise a cluster 

 of nearly thirty bells full seven feet above the 

 ground. Its orange blossoms, flushed with 

 scarlet, spotted with brown and strongly re- 

 curved, are excellent for heightening the gar- 

 i den skyline in July and August. The some- 

 \what similar panther lily {L. pardalinum) of 

 the extreme West is quite as excellent for a like 

 purpose. The blossoms, coming in July, are a 

 rather bright red, t^e lower parts of the petals 



