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fine varieties of it worth having, as, for example, fulgens and 
venustum. Of L. eoccelsum a psean of praise might be snug. 
All we can do is to record that it grows four feet high, and 
produces cream-coloured flowers. L. tigrinum completes the 
select list; height 4 feet, flowers fiery salmon red. Several 
of the popular kinds, such as the Turk’s-cap and the Pyrenean, 
we do not consider worthy of a place in a first-class border, 
LILIUM XiANCirOLIUM. 
and the little curious liliums that cost ten to twenty shillings 
a bulb (we shrink as we call to mind the “ heaps of money ” 
we have wasted on such things) are suitable chiefly for little 
curious people. In peculiarly favourable spots, L. lancifolium 
in variety, L . giganteum , L . tenuifolium , and L. LeicJitlinii 
