in Maine and New Hampshire gardens. Regale 

 with its tall, ^rong ^alk crowned with from six 

 to twelve sweetly perfumed flowers succeeds our 

 Madonnas. Besides Regale is a better and more 

 lasting cut flower than the Madonna. 

 ^ Plant Lilium Regale eight inches deep in sand, 

 fir^ thoroughly during the bulbs with flowers of 

 sulphur. Then heap sand over the surface where 

 the bulbs are planted. 



^ All the Japanese speciosum lilies should be 

 planted in Autumn, they are so hardy, so intere^- 

 ing and so necessary to carry on our succession of 

 lily display from June to November. 

 ^ In the Speciosum group are Roseum white and 

 rosy-pink; Magnificum, deeply, richly crimson; 

 Melpomene, clear crimson, charmingly dotted 

 with white and with petals margined with white; 

 Henry ii a great, ^alwart sort, bearing sometimes 

 as many as twenty and more flowers of orange- 

 gold, dotted with golden brown and are very 

 effecftive in proximity to white Japanese anemones 

 when blooming together in Augu^. La^t of the 

 speciosums now available for our American 

 gardens is Speciosum alba, the lovelier lily that 

 grows and the latent to flower; silvery, pearl- 



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