TRV: AELTM LILY. 



HIS plant is usually labelled Caila 

 .Elhiop'iCii , aud there is m.i iiii- 

 pvopriety iu classing' it as a 

 ciillii ; on the contvaiy, it is well 

 to embraee any aud every op- 

 jiiirtunity of protesting against 

 the vieious use of enmuiemova- 

 tive names that is now hecomiug 

 eommon with botanists who are 

 too idle to diagnose, while over- 

 busy in "dedications." But no 

 matter: "a rose liy any other 

 name Avill smell as sweet/^ and 

 the arum lily is a glorious ])lant 

 that should lie grown wdiereM-r 

 suitable accommodation can be 

 provided for it. Being an arum, 

 it is not a lil}' ; but there is no 

 lily, however beautiful, that can Ije said to surpass it 

 iu elegance of form or in the jiurity of its ivory-white 

 chalice, folded in curves thaL seem to mock the genius 

 of the greatest of artists. 



There is not iu the world a more aceommodatiDg plant 

 than this, .provided solely that it be juotected from frost iu 



