Lilium Pardalinum Giganteum—Sunset Lily. 
PARDALINUM GIGANTEUM (THE SUN¬ 
SET LILY )—This magnificent new Ore¬ 
gon lily is winning fame both in America 
and abroad. It has been accorded much 
praise at the famous British Royal Gar¬ 
dens at Kew and Wisley. Mr. William N. 
Craig of Boston, author of “Lilies and 
Their Culture in North America” and one 
of the world’s foremost authorities on 
lilies, writing for the Florists Review, 
states, “I consider this one of the finest 
of the garden lilies.” He tells of seeing it 
at Wisley while in England last summer. 
Some bulbs were planted for a test at a 
depth of three feet. The plants came up 
easily through the deep soil and grew 
amazingly well. 
The exact origin of Lilium pardalinum 
giganteum is unknown. As far as we are 
able to learn the counterpart of it cannot 
be found in the wild. It is evidently a 
rare and very superior form of Lilium 
pardalinum, possibly a mutation. We once, 
in common with others, considered it a 
hybrid, but the evidence accumulating 
from a study both of the plant itself and 
its seed projeny points to the contrary. It 
is not one of Burbank’s or Purdy’s lilies. 
It was first discovered commercially about 
seven years ago, having been grown prior 
to that time for over 40 years in the gar¬ 
den of an old farm home near the Colum¬ 
bia River. A good idea of the color may 
be obtained from the plate on the front 
cover. Under favorable conditions the 
plant attains a height of 8 to 9 feet. The 
stout stems, clothed in luxuriant foliage, 
hold their heads of gorgeous bloom aloft. 
This lily is wonderfully vigorous and of 
easy culture, increasing rapidly by natural 
growth of the bulbs. Plant 12 to 14 inches 
deep as this will insure a better moisture 
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