134 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENS 
The wild yellow lily (Lilium canadense) has narrow, 
bell-shaped flowers on long peduncles and is very fra- 
grant. The petals are yellow or orange, usually spotted 
with brown. In its native haunts in the Northern 
states it grows in moist 
meadows or bogs. As a 
border plant it may be 
grown in moist, light soil 
and in full sunlight. 
The tiger hly (Lilian 
tigrinum) has large. deep- 
orange flowers thickly spotted 
with dark brown. It is a Japa- 
nese plant that has escaped from 
old gardens. It may be propa- 
gated by planting the little black 
bulbils, found in the axils of 
the leaves, when they are fully 
ripened. 
The white dogtooth violet 
(Erythronium albidum) and the 
” dogtooth violet (Lrythroniun 
Fic. 68. Dogtooth Violet 5 : 
(Erythronium americanum)  @mericamem), sometimes called 
the yellow adder’s-tongue, with 
its mottled leaves and light-vellow petals, are both 
excellent plants for growing in shaded rockeries and 
among shrubbery. If grown in the open, they prefer 
a northern slope. The flowering season is from April 
to May. 
