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of North America. Of these three regions Asia has the greatest number 
of species ; Europe the next ; America, if we take into consideration its 
vast extent of surface in relation to the number of species found thereon, 
ranks last. 
Thus you see the Lily is almost a world-wide plant, therefore of 
necessity found in all soils and situations. Speaking broadly, I should say 
that Asia has given us our finest and most magnificent species ; North 
America next; and Europe last; and that, as a general rule, the European 
species are most amenable to cultivation in our gardens, North American 
Fig. 9.— L. Browxi. 
species next, and Asiatic last. With the exception of a few Indian species^ 
all LiHes are hardy in our climate, a late spring frost doing infinitely 
more damage to them when in growth than a very severe winter. I 
would lay special stress on the fact of Lilies being hardy : one so often 
comes across the individual who can hardly credit the fact' that such 
Lilies as Browni (fig. 9), Hansoni, Giganteum (fig. 25), Longiflorum 
(fig. 10), Henryi (fig. 11), Martagon Album (fig. 20), &:c., can be cultivated 
with success in the open border. 
About twenty-five years ago Professor Baker took the Lilies in hand, 
arranged and classified them in a systematic order, and worked out a 
