GROWING LILIUM REGALE FROM SEED 



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|T Avas ljurely by chance aud I feel my great good fortune 

 last Summer that I heard of a nursery in New England 

 that had gTown from seed a stock of the Eegale lily 

 (Lilium Eegale), and I was not surprised to learn that this col- 

 lection of seedling lilies was commercially A^alued at some thirty 

 odd thousand dollars. Naturally, I arranged at once to go and 

 see them, for I was just in the mood for it, being excited, enthused 

 and thrilled by all I had seen at the different flower-shows, the 

 Arnold Arboretum, and mj visit to Miss Grace Sturtevant's Iris 

 Farm, where I saw all her wonderful seedling Irises and her 

 garden of Spring flowers, a garden quite remarkable, and impres- 

 sively comprehensive. 



To me it seemed as if every Springtime flower in the world 

 was there. You can imagine I was eager to see the collection of 

 seed-grown Riegale lilies and I did not leave until I had seen 

 them all. Fancj^ my astonishment to find that many of the seed- 

 ling bulbs had borne flowers when they Avere but two years old, 

 mere babies, and all of them had bloomed at three years. Cer- 

 tainly this is but a short time to wait for such seed grown won- 

 ders. 



Tliis is what a lily expert says of this radiant lily: "The 

 Lilium Regale is the finest lily in the world to-day, fTiat no state- 

 ment so sweeping and far-reaching has ever been made of any 

 species of the genus before, that it is the best garden lily ever 

 introduced into cultivation, and up to the present time no enemy 

 of it has appeared." This, you will agree with me, is certainly a 

 very high tribute, is it not? Undoubtedly its remarkably free 

 seeding habit and its ready response in germination have been the 

 incentive for commercial growers to produce their own stock, and 

 since it is so simple a matter to do so, we Amateurs should grow 

 them too. 



I have not been able to obtain any of the seed, and I doubt if 

 seed can be purchased, but we mav grow Lilium Eegale bv i^lant- 



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