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ponium, monadelphum, szovitzianum, and giganteum. All 

 these are woodland Lilies, revelling in rich, decayed soil 

 and the shelter of undergrowth. All alike detest drought, 

 and are glad to have water haunting their neighbourhood. 

 No one can fail to mark this who has seen auratvm, 

 hunted and outlawed, with a price on its poor head, 

 wagging great blooms among the cliffy copses of Kama- 

 kura, or the Turk's Cap peering from the gloom of Pinus 

 montana on the highest tree-limit of the Oberland. 



To me, personally, Martagon has never made any strong 

 appeal, the colour of its pinkish blooms being sickly 

 and weak ; nor can I see much value in the new high- 

 priced hybrids — Mar-han and Dal-Hansoni — which seem 

 to me to have all the ugliness of Martagon and Hansoni, 

 with the beauty of neither, aggravated by the combina- 

 tion. As for the BurbanM-crosses, these are too con- 

 fused and suspect to be spoken of yet : some of them are 

 obvious pardalinum. 



But the snow-white form of Martagon is very notable 

 even among Lilies. It is a rare and expensive plant, 

 which is supposed rather hard to grow. My stock, how- 

 ever, came from an old cottage garden near Ingleborough, 

 where it makes stout thickets ; and though for some years 

 I did ill with it, planted in a hot dry place, it is now 

 luxuriant in cool rich soil, among ferns, at the top of 

 a big slope that falls towards the bog in the Old Garden. 



The other valuable Turk's Cap is Martagon dalmaticum, 

 whose stalwart spikes are clothed with turbans of a 

 glossy maroon so intense as to verge towards black. 

 {Cataniae is similar, though less profound in tone.) This 

 is commoner than the white Martagon, and is a perfectly 

 sound grower in fair treatment, though all the Martagons 

 require some years to get fully established and show their 

 true character. Indeed this must be said of all Lilies, 

 except of those that save one trouble in the matter by 



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