LILIES FOE NOETHEEN GAEDENS 21 



first rank of reliability is Brown's lily (L. 

 Brownii). The sole drawback is that it re- 

 quires replanting every few years. This is in- 

 deed a hardy garden treasure of July and 

 August. The blossoms, usually solitary, are of 

 the size and shape of the Easter hly; but they 

 are suffused with reddish brown on the outside 

 and the anthers are brown. There is a variety, 

 Chloraster, that is suffused with green and the 

 varieties leucanthum and odorum are creamy 

 yellow. 



A somewhat similar newcomer, from China, 

 that appears to be both hardy and vigorous in 

 American gardens is L. myriophyllum. Its 

 funnel-shaped white blossoms, flushed with yel- 

 low in the center and the outside of the petals 

 streaked with brown and tipped with pink, and 

 its fine, narrow foliage commend it to general 

 culture. It bears some resemblance to L. 

 Brownii leucanthum, but has more refinement 

 and it blooms a little earlier — ^in July. 



Although neither Brown's lily nor L. myri- 

 ophyllum has the purity of the species best 

 known as Easter lily (L. longiflorum) , the last- 

 named is less to be preferred in the colder gar- 

 den zone. It is hardy enough to have endured 

 the winter so far north as Ottawa; but, unless 



