CONSIDER 

 THE LILIES 



AIR and smiling are the lilies, and 



[^J| there are many who, like myself, 

 "~ love to live in a garden, in a gar- 

 den wherein there are lilies, many lilies. 



When the pink and white Fairy Lilies 

 (Zephyranthus) nodded under the lacey 

 umbrellas of the Maidenhair ferns that 

 formed the border of my lily garden I felt 

 there was nothing so perfect anywhere. 

 When the Madonnas had ceased blooming, 

 the cut down, yellowing, ripening stalk was 

 hidden by the bountiful flowering Fairy 

 Lilies. When the glorious Auratums went 

 the way of the Madonnas, Auratum's bit of 

 ripening stalk was disguised by the Yellow 

 Day Lilies Flava — whose charming green, 

 spear-like foliage knows no yellowing stage, 

 and therefore they are quite desirable as 

 foliage plants, even though they do not pro- 

 duce such clear golden flowers. 



When the pink Speciosums held sway 

 in the lily garden, the Fairies were still 

 abloom under the frail looking but very 

 hardy Maidenhair ferns. Then the Longi- 

 florums recalled the Madonnas which they 

 greatly resemble but have much more sub- 

 stance and longer trumpets. The Coral 

 bloomed with the Longiflorums and still 



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