Lilium speciosum or lancifolium sure to bloom and The little coral lily (L. tenuifolium ) about 18 inches The trumpet Easter lily, is the ideal flower but 

 comes in all colors, from deep red to pure white nigh is easily grown from seed is hardly as hardy as some of the newer kinds 



Lilies From June To October— By a. Hemngton, ?:, 



PLANT BULBS THIS FALL AND HAVE FIVE MONTHS OF SUMMER BLOOM- 

 PERMANENT KINDS THAT MULTIPLY FROM YEAR TO YEAR IN THE GARDEN 



HPHERE are at least fifty beautiful 

 A hardy lilies perfectly fitted for our 

 gardens and there are probably fifty 

 thousand gardeners who have as yet never 

 had a lily planted in their gardens. All 

 these lilies are perfectly easy to grow if 

 planted in the fall with ordinary care, in 

 almost any reasonably good garden soil, 

 and you can have these gorgeous flowers 

 for five months. Five months of lily 

 bloom! Just fancy! No bulbs give such 

 immense flowers and they come in sum- 

 mer when other fall planted bulbs are 

 gone. There is more time to plant now 

 than in the spring. I hope many readers 

 of The Garden Magazine will profit by 

 this hint. Everybody likes lilies. From 

 late spring to early fall, whatever lily is 

 blooming in its season, it is forceful and 

 strikingly effective either in beds or in- 

 termingled with shrubbery. 



The Easter lily has acquired a tremend- 

 ous vogue because of its adaptability for 

 forcing into flower at Easter time. A 

 number of others exist awaiting a more 

 widespread recognition of their noble 

 beauty and permanent worth in the outdoor 

 garden, not even excepting our own wild 

 native species. Almost all lilies are "chil- 

 dren of the wild" for the family has a 

 world-wide distribution; although they 

 appear to be confined to the northern 

 portions of the earth. It matters little 

 whence they come; the important thing is 

 their hardiness and constancy of character, 

 their sterling qualities as enduring garden 

 flowers. 



Some lilies have been long popular and 

 of widespread cultivation as the Madonna 

 lily and tiger lily, but there are many others 

 comparatively unknown, and the world 

 may yet have in store for us other undis- 

 covered beauties, such as those that Mr. 

 E. H. Wilson, in his recent extensive ex- 

 ploration of China, discovered, kinds that 

 promise to become permanent additions 

 to good garden lilies, having been proved to 

 be quite hardy in New England. One of 

 these, Lilium myriophyUum (shown in color 

 on this month's cover), is a most note- 

 worthy addition, as the only really hardy 

 white funnel flowered lily. The interior is 

 luminous canary yellow at thebase with deep 

 pinkish red exterior, which sometimes suf- 

 fuses the white, L. Krameri the best pink 

 lily is a little too delicate for general use. 



L. Sargentia is another of the Wilson 

 introductions that we are assured has a 

 permanent garden future before it. It 

 grows six to seven feet high. The intro- 

 duction of these new species and the interest 

 their outcoming will create should contrib- 

 ute to an awakening interest in lilies. 

 Yet strange as it may seem, even when 

 varieties of extraordinary merit are offered 

 acceptation and appreciation of them are 

 slowly accorded. 



About twenty years ago Dr. Henry dis- 

 covered in China and sent bul'os to Europe, 

 of what was then a new species. It was 

 named Lilium Henryi in compliment to its 

 discoverer and I unhesitatingly proclaim it 

 the best all around summer garden lily, a 

 long lived permanent plant. How many 



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grow it? Some of the trade lists offer it yet- 

 as a new and rare kind. It is now not very 

 new and (even if called rare) should not be 

 scarce for it multiplies rapidly. Fifteen 

 years ago I imported a dozen bulbs. These 

 have increased to hundreds and I have seen 

 strong bulbs throw up stalks to a height of 

 eight feet and bear seventy-five flowers. 

 What a glorious lily to give height and 

 color in the hardy border in August, a 

 glowing graceful mass of orange yellow. 



The garden lily display begins with L. 

 elegans or Thunbergianum, as some growers 

 designate it. This is early, variable, and 

 dwarf. There are not less than a dozen 

 distinct and handsome varieties in a wide 

 range of color, from pale yellow to darkest 

 crimson. Some grow less than one foot 

 high, others attain to two feet; but all are 

 hardy and free flowering. Another June 

 gem is a glowing scarlet lily from Siberia, 

 L. tenuifolium — this is best grown from 

 seed. It only grows about eighteen inches 

 high but on top of its slender stems it bears 

 numbers of brilliant flowers. Following 

 these in beautiful and unbroken succession 

 come others, numerous and important. 

 Present space will not permit enlarging up- 

 on them in variety and detail, but the lilies 

 that can be relied upon to do well in gardens 

 are tabulated below and from that list 

 selections may be made for all or any part 

 of the lily season. 



The beginner who wants a few lilies and 

 these to embrace a long season should plant 

 some of the L. elegans group, L. candidum, 

 L. croceum, L. Chalcedonicum. L. 



