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SUMMER 
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ing shades of yellow and orange belongs to the 
same type. The next group are the L. elegans , 
or more commonly called Thunbergianum. They 
do not grow very tall, but they have many leaves 
on the stem, and large flowers in a great variety 
of shades of deep orange and crimson, and are 
very beautiful and striking. Then last, but 
not least, are the well-known tiger-lilies, L. 
tigrinum. They are quite simple to grow, and 
also to increase, as the tiny dark bulblets which 
come on the stem near where the leaves spring 
from, will grow and make new plants. 
To try to grow many of the other lilies you 
may see described in gardeners’ catalogues, such 
as Browni or Krameri , would only lead to 
disappointment and failure, unless you really try 
to study the wants of lilies very thoroughly, so 
I will not tell you about them. If you even 
have the first and the last of those I have 
named (candidum and tigrinum ), the Madonna 
and the tiger lilies, you need not feel dis¬ 
satisfied. 
I wonder if you have noticed that, in spite of 
the many flowers I have been telling you of 
which adorn the summer, some of them old 
favourites, and some, it may be, new to you, 
that I have missed what is perhaps the most 
important of all. I think you can guess the one 
I mean—for 
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