obtained of the florist, and you will find it easy to 

 grow them well and ju^ as successfully as you 

 have your Japanese speciosums, and other fair 

 flowers. 



THE WHITE MARTAGON LILY 



^ We all know that China and Japan are the great 

 lily countries, as well as countries giving us many 

 wonderful trees and shrubs. 



^ When visiting the Arboretum I found it so easy 

 to be certain, before even glancing at the labels, to 

 recognize the varieties that came from China or 

 Japan, because of the unusual fineness of every one 

 of these foreign specimens. And I can say the same 

 of their lilies. 



^ Almost three hundred years have come and gone 

 and during all these years the Martagon lily has 

 been admired and prized — prized for its beauty. 

 Who can tell how many, many years prior to 1 629 

 it was being praised and admired ? Yet I reluctant- 

 ly and regretfully admit that even today the Mar- 

 tagon Lily Album is apparently quite a stranger 

 within our gardens and this notwithstanding all 

 its grace, all its hardiness and all the loveliness of 

 its pure white beauty, which in June and July 

 follows in the train of the Madonna, which in turn 

 is followed by the Longiflorum, that great beauty 

 being followed by Speciosum Alba. Are we not in- 

 debted to these varieties for giving us fine white 

 lilies from June to October? The Martagon I 

 have found is one of the simplest and easiest to 



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