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cinth, Daffodil, Flower de Luce, double Peony, 
Lilac, Lily of the Valley. 
A favorite flower was the yellow garden Lily, the 
Lemon Lily, Hemerocallis , when it could be kept 
from spreading. Often its unbounded luxuriance 
exiled it from the front yard to the kitchen door- 
yard, as befell the clump shown facing page 48. 
Its pretty old-fashioned name was Liricon-fancy, 
given, I am told, in England to the Lily of the 
Valley. I know no more satisfying sight than a 
good bank of these Lemon Lilies in full flower. 
Below Flatbush there used to be a driveway lead- 
ing to an old Dutch house, set at regular inter- 
vals with great clumps of Lemon Lilies, and their 
full bloom made them glorious. Their power of 
satisfactory adaptation in our modern formal gar- 
den is happily shown facing page 76, in the lovely 
garden of Charles E. Mather, Esq., in Haverford, 
Pennsylvania. 
The time of fullest inflorescence of the nineteenth 
century front yard was when Phlox and Tiger Lilies 
bloomed ; but the pinkish-orange colors of the lat- 
ter (the oddest reds of any flower tints) blended 
most vilely and rampantly with the crimson-purple 
of the Phlox ; and when London Pride joined 
with its glowing scarlet, the front yard fairly 
ached. Nevertheless, an adaptation of that front- 
yard bloom can be most effective in a garden bor- 
der, when white Phlox only is planted, and the 
Tiger Lily or cultivated stalks of our wild nodding 
Lily rise above the white trusses of bloom. These 
wild Lilies grow very luxuriantly in the garden, 
