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almost lost sight of, it was well known in the days 

 of Queen Elizabeth, when Gerarde plainly describes 

 and figures the two kinds, calling the star-shaped one 

 the " White Lily of Constantinople." 



The only Lilies that do well in my poor soil are 

 croceum, auratum, and tigrinum. Croceum is the early 

 blooming Orange Lily that grows so well in London. 

 It is the Herring-Lily of the Dutch, blooming at the 

 time when the great catches of herrings take place. 

 I have got into the way of thinking of it and talking 

 of it as the Herring-Lily, and there are so many other 

 Lilies of an orange colour that for the sake of distinct- 

 ness the name seems worthy of general adoption. 

 Like other Lilies long in cultivation, there are better 

 and worse forms of it. The best one is a magnificent 

 garden plant ; in my borders, when full-grown, the 

 third year after planting, it is seven feet high; a 

 sumptuous mass of the deepest orange colour. When 

 the bloom is over, it is cut away, and there are still 

 left the stems of handsome foliage in regular whorls. 

 But as I have it in the flower-border in rather large 

 patches, and as by the late summer the mass of 

 foliage, though wholesome and handsome, is a little 

 too large and deep in colour, I grow behind it the 

 white Everlasting Pea, training the long flowering 

 shoots over and among the Lily stems, with what 

 seems to me the very happiest effect. 



In " Wood and Garden," I explained rather at 

 length the way I thought best of arranging the se- 



