LILY FAMILY 



side; you find them in the tangle with the milkweeds and the 

 teasel; they border the meadows; they mass themselves in old 

 dooryards; they are beautiful, wild, and free. Gardeners recom- 

 mend them for planting among shrubbery, doubtless because of 



their ability to take care 

 of themselves. 



The Lemon Lily, 

 Hemerocallis fl&va, is 

 structurally the same as 

 Hemerocallis fulva, but 

 more delicate, with nar- 

 rower leaves and clear, 

 pale-yellow, fragrant 

 flowers. One finds it a 

 most satisfactory garden 

 plant, on account of its 

 beauty, its early bloom, 

 and its ability to live 

 without coddling. The 

 race is hardy, and 

 though this one has not 

 as yet become a wanderer like its tawny blood-brother, it may 

 any day leap the garden wall and attain freedom. The trade 

 offers variants of both forms in singles and in doubles, and the two 

 are the oldest cultivated representatives of the genus. 



Lemon Lily. Hemerocdllis fld.va 



TORCH LILY. KNIPHOFIA 



Kniphbfia aloldes. 



Kniphqfia, named in honor of Prof. Kniphof, of Erfurt; 1704-1763. 



A plant known in the trade as Tnloma, as well as Kniphofia. Native 

 to southern Africa. September. 



Root. — A rhizome with numerous thickish root-fibres. 

 Leaves. — Sword-shaped, two to three feet long, keeled, glaucous, 

 scabrous on the margin, growing in a tuft. 



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