while the sweet yellow day lily, so 

 common in old-fashioned gardens, is 

 called variously St. Michael's lily and 

 Laricon-fancy. 



The tiger-lily, with its lurid hue and 

 ugly brown spots, has had thrust upon 

 it an antiquity it does not deserve. 

 Not till as late as 1804 were the bulbs 

 brought to England by Captain Kirk- 

 patrick, who obtained them in eastern 

 Asia. They shared with the far hand- 

 somer Japan lilies the honour of being 

 among the first Oriental lilies intro- 

 duced into European gardens. It was 

 some years later before their baleful 

 blooms crept into our gardens, from 

 many of which they have escaped and 

 run flaunting down the roadside. We 

 have a far more beautiful native lily 

 of our own which glorifies and makes 

 glad the waste places and which we 

 call Turk's cap, or turban lily, from its 

 shape ; there is also the brilliant flame 

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