in one’s garden. Some individual plants will live where others 
of the same species would die. This is specially mentioned, as 
some of this group are rather difficult to establish. 
The common Martagon Lily, L. Martagon, may be taken 
as typical of this group, and it is one of the most easily 
cultivated, either in border, wood, or garden. The writer 
knows of a place where there are thousands of the common 
Martagon, with many plants of its white variety, in a wood 
within the policies of a country house. The white variety 
is very beautiful, and the deep-coloured forms, da/maticum 
and Catanu, are good growers and please many. Growing 
in the same soil, any good loam, may be cultivated the 
brilliant vermilion scarlet cha/cedonicum; the splendid golden 
crimson-spotted Humboldtu, the pretty nankeen testaceum or 
excelsum, the fine yellow Hansoni, an excellent Lily; the 
orange-red columbianum; the rather strongly-scented, early 
pyrenaicum and its variety rubrum; the scarlet pomponium, and 
the fine monade/phum and its variety szovitzianum. 
For moist places, such as near the margin of streams, we may 
have the showy Panther Lily, L. pardalinum, of which there 
are several varieties, all having the flowers crimson or orange ; 
the fine canadense; Grayi, and the variable Burbanki, a hybrid. 
Special mention in this group may be made of Da/hansont 
and Marhan, two hybrids which grow in common soil; a fine 
form of the latter, named Miss Wil/mott, is very choice. 
The last group is among the most prized of all, as compris- 
ing the most beautiful of all Lilies, L. awratum, which, in its 
several varieties, is the pride of every garden where it is a suc- 
cess. It grows magnificently in the lovely garden at Mount 
Usher, co. Wicklow, where the drawing which accompanies 
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The 
Martagon 
Group and 
its varieties 
