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away from the water, clumps of atiratum, 

 Washingtonianum, Humboldtii, gigantemn, and 

 all our finest species, would readily grow." 

 Many a country place, both large and small, 

 has a spot approximating these conditions — 

 thus easily convertible into a naturalistic lily 

 garden. And there is no reason in the world, 

 other than the negligible botanical one, why the 

 planting should be confined to members of the 

 Lilium genus. Some of the so-called lilies, not 

 a few of which belong to the lily family, might 

 be used for seasonal effects. 



But whether one has the space for a lily gar- 

 den, and the time and disposition to maintain 

 it, or whether it is a matter of a species or two 

 in ordinary dooryard conditions, there is a 

 prime rule that should not be broken. A lily's 

 beauty does not consist wholly in color; there 

 is beauty of form, both in the blossoms and in 

 the plant as a whole. Unless it is properly 

 placed, the full of esthetic delight is therefore 

 not experienced. If a lily's normal habit is 

 dignified and stately, it must be set forth in all 

 its dignity and stateliness to be at its best; if 

 graceful, in all its gracefulness ; if rather stiffly 

 dwarfish, in its rather stiff dwarfishness, and 

 so on. 



