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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 
Pardalinum can be obtained in some deep vermilion and crimson 
shades that are extremely beautiful. It may be that one of 
these will some day prove to be the source of the big red Lily 
the world is looking for. When ordering L. Humboldtii be 
sure to specify the variety magnificum as it is a sure bloomer 
and a vigorous grower; the flower, heavily blotched with orange 
and vermilion over a gold background, is hardly so beautiful 
as the chaste, clear orange blossom of the type, but you are 
certain to have flowers when you plant it. 
Several of the Pacific Coast Lilies excel any other group in the 
genus for grace, delicacy of coloring, and exquisite fragrance. 
L. washingtoni?num, the Redwood Lily (L. rubescens), and 
L. Parryii, are a beautiful trio of shade-lovers. Give them 
plenty of leaf-mold and good drainage — but give them lots of 
water, too. All three.are deliciously fragrant. Lilium Parryii 
may well rank as one of the sweetest of all flowers. The Wash- 
ington Lily and the Redwood Lily are tall growers with regular 
whorls of leaves arising at uniform intervals along the stalks. 
Both are trumpet-shaped, opening white or pinkish and fading 
to a wine-purple with age. The latter has segments recurving 
more closely at the tips, and fades to a deeper wine-color. The 
Mountain Lemon-lily (L. Parryii), is more rare, shorter, and does 
not bear a great number of flowers like the others. It is a true 
trumpet shape, and in color a beautiful glowing lemon, often 
unsullied by a single tinge of foreign color, and yet again faintly 
spotted with brown. 
Other California Lilies worth mentioning are L. parvum from 
the Sierras with tubular erect flowers in orange or yellow, and L. 
Roezlii, a good yellow Turk’s-cap. The long-lost L. Kelloggii is a 
gem, like a miniature Leopard Lily, but with a ground color of 
blush-white dotted lightly with crimson. I have seen it but once, 
but 1 shall always remember it as among the daintiest flowers. 
California Lilies normally produce excellent crops of seed 
and hybridize readily. The Leopard Lily a good seed bearer, 
crosses readily with the Humboldt Lily, and the progeny is very 
vigorous and free-flowering. This would be a good cross for 
any one to start with in plant hybridizing. 
Taken as a whole, the Lilies of Japan and China comprise 
among their number the larg- 
est, the hardiest, and the 
most beautiful of the entire 
genus and seem to offer the 
most promising field to the 
hybridist. The immense, 
waxy, fragrant flowers of the 
Gold-banded Lily have won 
for it great popularity among 
Lilies. But it does not 
usually last more than two 
or three years in cultivation. 
Still, 1 love it well enough 
to invest in a case of new 
bulbs every year. L. spec- 
iosum (the lancifolium of 
the florists) is a universal 
favorite on account of its 
vigor and beauty. The Tiger 
Lily comes from the Far East, 
also. Among the best known 
of the large trumpet-shaped 
Lilies is the Easter Lily (L. 
longiflorum) and all its var- 
ieties. L. Ukeyur a reputed 
hybrid is as a matter of fact 
oneof themanyformsof longi- 
florum like the Easter Lily. 
Lilium 1 lenryii is probably 
the hardiest Lily in the world, 
and the most resistant to the 
Lily disease. It bears great 
quantities of seeds, which 
germinate quickly and bloom in three years. It multiplies 
rapidly by means of bulblets along the stem below the surface 
of the ground. It will grow in any kind of soil, and in sun or 
shade. It is a tall grower. I have seen it nine feet high 
bearing more than thirty blossoms with a bulb four pounds in 
weight and twenty-two inches in circumference. The foliage is 
dark and leathery in texture, able to withstand insects, wind, and 
disease. The petals are recurved of medium size, and a delight- 
ful light orange in color. This Lily was discovered in 1 888 by 
Dr. Henry in the province of Ichang, growing at a great eleva- 
tion in great masses drooping characteristically over the brink 
of a steep limestone gorge, with myriads of interlaced golden 
blossoms. This was only the forerunner of other notable dis- 
coveries in China and our stock of desirable hardy plants has 
been greatly enriched within very recent years by the introduc- 
tion of two Lilies which at once became popular. These are 
Lilium regale and L. Sargentiae. 
With the advent of these and the older L. Henryii, a new era 
dawned in Lily culture. Here is a trio of Lilies which thrive in 
ordinary loam, with full exposure to the sun. They seed freely 
and abundantly. The Regal Lily, well named indeed (Lilium 
regale) threatens to take rank as the “Queen of All Lilies.” It 
has a long trumpet, which flares widely. The broad face of the 
segments expands a pure glistening white that melts almost 
imperceptibly to a beautiful light lemon deep in the throat, 
which is devoid of the objectionable green seen in longiflorum. 
Lilium Sargentiae is much like L. Brownii, but it is stronger 
and taller. The blossom is narrower than in regale, white 
inside with purplish streaks overlaying white on the outside. 
It is not heavily scented. In leaves and habit it approaches 
L. Henryii and also produces bulblets in the axils of its leaves. 
May we not look to these Lilies to produce hybrids that com- 
bine beauty and vigor? With the idea of combining the greatest 
beauty with the greatest vigor, for the last five years I have 
tried to secure a cross between L. Henryii and L. auratum. 
1 haven’t succeeded yet, but 1 am prompted to continue from 
the fact that I get an encouraging growth in the capsules at the 
start. However, after attaining a certain size, they stop grow- 
ing and shrivel. Some one 
in a different locality may be 
more successful. 
The cross with Lilium 
Henryii which produced L. 
kewense should be tried in 
every garden. L. Brownii 
was the other parent. An un- 
likely result one would think, 
but with plants “you never 
can tell.” L. speciosum is so 
much like L. Henryii that the 
latter is often called the “ yel- 
low speciosum,” yet I have 
tried to cross the two again 
and again, without even the 
slightest swelling of a capsule 
to encourage me. 
There is a tradition of a 
cross between L. auratum 
and L. speciosum, made away 
back in the ’sixties when 
auratum was first introduced. 
It is unfortunately extinct, 
but is said to have been a 
magnificent flower. Will 
some enterprising enthusiast 
try to replace this long-lost 
treasure? 
[Some remarks on the ac- 
tual work of “crossing” will 
be found on page 1 38 of this 
issue.] 
THE PLACE OF THE LILY IN THE GARDEN 
Surroundings that are naturalistic as this Clematis hung wall in the 
garden of Mr. Hugh D. Auchincloss at Newport, R. L, emphasize the 
rich beauty of all the great Lily tribe and are their proper environment 
