TURK'S CAP LILY 



TURK'S CAP LILY 



Lilium superbum. 



Our most vigorous and picturesque native lily; its habitat extends 

 from Canada to Georgia and west to the Mississi|jpi. Should be culti- 

 vated among shrubbery. 



Bulb. — Large, rhizomatous. 



5tew.— Three to six feet high; tall, erect. 



Leaves. — Lanceolate, pointed; three to fivfe-nerved; lower leaves 

 whorled, upper more or less scattered. 



Flowers. — Nodding; ten to forty in a pyramidal paniculate raceme; 

 bright red-orange with numerous dark ipurple spots inside; segments 

 lanceolate, acute, strongly recurved.'" 



The Turk's Cap Lily is found rarely enough in its extended 

 habitat to make the finding — certainly the first finding — an 

 event. To come upon a slender leafy pillar crowned by a score 

 of nodding lily bells in a fence corner whose possibilities you 

 thought you knew absolutely, is like finding an alert ivory-billed 

 woodpecker tmder the maples in your city lot, or a tired loon in 

 your country barn-yard, or the Grass of Parnassus when you are 

 out for Goldenrod, or a bright blue": vroltet , in late November. 

 All these things happen, and the day tHfey .iiappefeJs inemorable. 



The segments of the mature bloss'ona are 'greatly recurved, the 

 brown anthers swing free, and the lialf-nodding orange cup is 

 freckled with brownish-purple spots. This is our best representa- 

 tive of the Martagon type of lily, and is worthy of cultivation. It 

 should be planted among high shrubs and it will climb to light 

 and sunshine. 



MEADOW LILY. WILD YELLOW LILY 



Lilium' canadense. 



The familiar, nodding lily of northern meadows. Its range extends 

 from New Brunswick to Georgia and west to the Mississippi; prefers 

 moist lowlands. June, July. 



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