PARK AND CEMETERY 
League of St. Louis ; 2 p. m., personally conducted 
visits for both societies to the school garden and model 
city exhibits of the Fair; 4:30 p. m., personally con- 
ducted tour through St. Louis to see the work of the 
Civic Improvement League of that city. 
SA TURD A Y, JUNE 1 1. 
Joint Meeting of the Two Associations, 9 130 a. m. 
Election of officers ; reports of auditing committees 
of both societies ; and papers on the following sub- 
jects by the chairmen of committees on those subjects 
in the two organizations. 
School Gardens, Dick J. Crosby, Washington, D. 
C. ; Municipal Art, Dr. Milo Roy Maltbie, New York ; 
Park Census, G. A. Parker, Hartford, Conn. ; Village 
Improvement, Warren H. Manning, Boston ; Public 
Advertising, Frederick Law Olmsted, Brookline, 
Mass. ; Railroad Improvement, Mrs. A. E. McCrea, 
Chicago; Local Improvement, Mrs. Louis Marion Mc- 
Call, St. Louis; Libraries and Museums, John Thomp- 
son, Philadelphia ; Forest Reservations, E. J. Parker, 
Quincy, 111 .; Arts and Crafts, Mrs. M. F. Johnston, 
Richmond, Ind. This will be followed by announce- 
ment of standing committees or Section Presidents, 
and an address by Prof. Charles Zueblin of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— CI. 
(Liliales, Continued,) 
Lilium has 45 or 50 species and hosts of varieties 
derived from the sub-tropical and the warm — or occa- 
sionally the cold temperate- regions of Asia, Europe 
and North America. In Asia they extend south to the 
Philippines' and South Indian mountains. In Europe 
to the Mediterranean, in North America to Florida, 
and the mountains of Southern California. North- 
ward they extend in Asia to the Kamschatkan penin- 
sula, Southern Siberia, North China and the Altai 
mountains. In Europe to Central Russia and the 
Scandinavian peninsula. In North America to the 
Canadian provinces of New Brunswick on the east 
and British Columbia on tbe west. About ten of the 
species have forms which reach the regions of deep, 
long lying snows, which materially protect them. 
Many grow on mountain sides and some in bogs, some 
in sun and some in partial shade, so they can neither 
all grow in one place nor under the same conditions. 
I have always believed that L. giganteum was Himal- 
ayan, and found throughout the inner ranges often in 
the upper Pinus longifolia regions at elevations of 
5,000 to 7,000 feet, but ascending beyond them up 
to 10,000 feet, always well drained and growing among 
scrub in humus mixed with the detritus of the rocks. 
The Kew herbaceous guide (1895) makes it Japanese, 
and gives Thunberg as the authority for the name. 
On the other hand they apply the name cordifolium to 
the Himalayan plant and give Wallich as the author. 
It is idiotic jugglery when applied to such widely 
published plants, but there is no practical thing to do 
but follow the Kew index — anyway — if perpetual con- 
fusion is* to be avoided. Professor McCloskie of Prince- 
ton has kindly given me access to- all works of refer- 
ence at his command, and it is not made evident that 
the Kew Hand-list follows the Kew Index ! Don seems 
to have called the Himalayan plant cordifolium, and 
Kew may have followed his clue to enlighten “Die 
Pflanzenfamilien,” but the juggling is none the less. 
The Himalayan plant takes eight or ten years to flower 
from seed, and three or four years to flower a small 
trade bulb. When sufficiently strong it will form a 
large crown and a flower stem maybe 10 feet high. 
The old bulb dies after flowering and is succeeded by 
LILIUM SPECIOSUM, RUBRUM. L. TIGRINUM, 
SPLENDENS. 
offset bulbs of various ages and sizes. Mr. Baker, I 
believe, regards the Japan plant as a mere geographical 
form — and he is apt to be right. These and other 
white tubular lilies such as Philippense, Neilgherrense, 
Wallichianum, sulphureum, the Californian hill-side 
Washingtonianum and the swamp Parryii are ill adapt- 
ed to the north Atlantic states; still, given the trouble, 
some are flowered occasionally. I once flowered the 
Burmese sulphureum on a sloping sunny bank of Jer- 
sey shale after keeping the ground covered during 
winter with a few bushels of sawmill litter. It did not 
commence growth until the middle of May, when it 
pushed rapidly and gave a splendid flower during the 
first week of August. It is much the finest of the 
longiflorum section. With me it was quite white with 
beautiful chocolate anthers. It is remarkable, too, in 
bearing bulbils in the manner of Tigrinum. All the 
lilies of the foregoing sections are sub-tropical in na- 
ture except the South European Candidums. L. Neil- 
gherrense grows under the influence of both monsoons 
and therefore varies in time of flowering. In the drier 
