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to ten of them on a stalk the contrast witli the 

 dark green foliage is charming. The average 

 height is about a foot and a half and the blos- 

 soms appear in June and July. The variety 

 pumilum is taller and stouter and there is a 

 very beautiful clear apricot kind called Golden 

 Gleam. 



Here then are no less than twenty-eight lily 

 species and two hybrids, with a great many 

 varieties more or less distinctive, from which to 

 choose without going outside of the range of 

 hardy garden safety. Surely it is a generous 

 enough list in point of niunbers and it draws 

 upon all the five important sub-genera, save only 

 the heart-leaved lilies. 



