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is a stronger grower, attaining a height of over two feet 

 and flourishes in the grass by the waterside. 



Lilium. — Many species of this stately family may be 

 planted with charming effect and every prospect of 

 success in the more open places in the woods. Partial 

 shade is desirable, but the plants should receive a certain 

 amount of sunshine during the day. L. auratum delights 

 in a natural peaty soil, and in damper spots, such as the 

 low banks of a stream or ground through which water 

 from a higher level oozes, the Swamp Lilies, L. par- 

 dalinum, L. superbum and L. canadense will prove at home. 

 The white Madonna Lily, L. candidum, does well in a 

 variety of soils and conditions when not attacked by the 

 disease, and may well be planted largely in varying 

 sites. The Orange Lily, almost as old a garden favourite 

 as the Madonna Lily, possesses a most vigorous con- 

 stitution and should be massed at the edge of open 

 glades, at the meetings of woodland paths and similar 

 positions. L. pyrenaicum, the earliest Lily to bloom, is 

 better suited to the wild garden than the border, on 

 account of its strong and rather unpleasant scent, its 

 chrome-yellow flowers and bright orange anthers having 

 a striking effect when seen against green foliage from 

 a little distance. Large masses of the noble L. giganteum, 

 from the Himalayas, bearing their lofty ivory-white 

 bloom-spires, ten feet and more in height, present a 

 grand appearance in a sheltered woodland dell, and 

 several other species may be grown with success, such 

 as the buff L. excelsum or testaceum, L. Martagon and 

 its white form, the scarlet Turk's-cap, L. chalcedonicutn, 

 unequalled in its colouring, the newly-introduced, yellow 

 L. Henryi, the sulphur L. Szovitzianum, and in the sun- 

 light at the edge of the wood dwarfer species, such 

 as varieties of the elegans and umbellatum groups, of 

 which there are many fine forms ranging in colour from 

 deep crimson to palest yellow. The latest flowering of 



