22 LILIES 



given unusual care, responds indifferently and 

 must be renewed with frequency. The type, 

 from Japan, is the best for planting out in the 

 North; bulbs from Bermuda (L. Earrisii) 

 might prove too tender. The variety Wilsoni 

 is a fine one. 



For a rather pale yellow color nothing is bet- 

 ter than the Caucasian lily (L. monadelphum) . 

 The yellow is slightly tinged with purple and 

 the anthers are a rich orange. It blooms in 

 July and the stalks may run up as high as six 

 feet. The variety Szovitzianum, sometimes 

 called L. Szovitzianum, is straw color, spotted 

 with black and has brown anthers. It is rather 

 to be preferred to the type, but either makes a 

 fine display. 



The littlest of all, the coral lily (L. tenuifo- 

 lium), is far too charming to have its present 

 slight recognition. Coming as it does from Si- 

 beria and northern China, it is quite at home 

 in gardens where the winter is severe ; but, as 

 it is a fairy among lilies, it is apt to be choked 

 to death by neighboring giants. While it has a 

 way of being at its best in its fourth year and 

 then perishing, it is readily renewed by seed. 

 The coral lily's little waxen, and strongly re- 

 curved, bells are deep scarlet and with from six 



