YELLOW MARTAGON 
LILY. 
Lilium pomponium. 
~URING the last ten years or so 
the cultivation of lilies has ex- 
panded and intensified into a 
distinct floral passion, and as 
the prominent leaders have 
a considerable following, the 
passion is embellished with a 
fringe of fashion, and conse- 
quently many people dabble 
in likes who have not much 
real enthusiasm and still less 
knowledge of the subject. The 
introduction of the noble Le/éwm 
anratun may be credited with 
the initiation of this new taste, 
and, beyond doubt, that lily of 
lilies is the true luminous centre 
around which the passion near, 
and the fashion far off, continually revolve. It is but 
a necessary circumstance that mistakes have been made 
in the selection and cultivation of lhes, and it is now 
beginning to be dimly discovered that certain members of 
this glorious family are not worth the serious attention of 
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