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soms, nine inclies long and five inches wide 

 across tlie moutli. These blossoms pass as 

 white, but actually they are tinged with purple 

 inside and green outside. In the evening air 

 their fragrance, though powerful, is very de- 

 lightful. The heart-leaved lily (L. cordifolium) 

 is a similar, but smaller and generally inferior, 

 Japanese species of like tenderness and bloom- 

 ing about a month later. The variety Giehnii 

 is the hardiest form of it. 



It is no less trying to put the only two clear 

 pink lilies into the tender class; but they, too, 

 do not quite belong outside of it. These are 

 Kramer's lily (L. japonicum) and the reddish 

 lily {L. rubellum), both Japanese species and 

 with such points of resemblance that the latter 

 has been thought by some to be a smaller form 

 of the other. They differ also in the point that 

 L. rubellum has less open blossoms, broader 

 leaves and shorter stems. Both are among the 

 loveliest of lilies, their rose color and general 

 refinement being hard to match. Kramer's lily 

 is sometimes sold as L. Krameri. The very 

 choice whitish variety, Alexandrae, is not hardy 

 also ; another variety, Colchesterense, which re- 

 sembles L. Brownii, is rather more so. In mild 

 parts of England L. rubellum is fairly hardy 



