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WILLIAM N. CRAIG, WEYMOUTH 
varieties. For the wild garden our native varieties 
like Philadelphicum, Grayi, Canadense, superbum and 
pardalinum are good, so is tigrinum, the elegans and 
umbellatum varieties, and croceum. For rock garden 
plantings some of the best varieties are tenuifolium. 
Golden Gleam, amabile, rubellum, all of the forms of 
elegans, concolor, callosum and cernuum. Numerous 
varieties are fine for pot culture including regale, 
speciosum, auratum, Henryi, Japonicum, sulphureum, 
Batemanniae, Croceum and others. 
Beds entirely devoted to Liliums in a range of 
varieties to flower over a long season are becoming 
popular. Such beds should be well prepared as re¬ 
gards drainage. Low growing annuals or perennials 
can be used as a ground cover and will furnish a suit¬ 
able summer mulch. 
Our displays of Hardy Liliums have secured nu¬ 
merous awards of gold and silver medals at exhibi¬ 
tions during the past few years. On June 28, 1933, an 
exhibit of 60 varieties in Boston on the occasion of 
the annual convention of the American Rose Society 
was awarded a gold medal, this contained a number 
of new and rare varieties. 
We wish to draw special attention to our collection 
of Lilium seeds which is the most complete offered in 
America. Many varieties will germinate within 3-4 
weeks and a few will bloom the second season. If 
started under glass in heat certain kinds can be flow¬ 
ered the same year including Formosanum. We have 
made shipments of Lilium seeds to France, Great 
Britain, Soviet Russia, Japan, British Honduras, 
Cuba, South Africa, New Zealand and Italy. 
LIST OF HARDY LILIUMS 
Amabile. A charming stem rooting 
Lily blooming in mid-June and 
attaining a height of 18-24 inches. 
Color bright red spotted black, and 
with some chocolate blotches, a very 
good variety for the rock garden. 
$.30 each, $3.00 doz., $20.00 per 100 
Auratum (Golden rayed Lily of 
Japan). Massive flowers with dis¬ 
tinct gold bands and heavily spot¬ 
ted. Very fragrant, blooms in Au¬ 
gust .25-.50 each, 3.00-5.00 doz. 
Auratum Var. Pictum. Heavily spot¬ 
ted with rich crimson, very fine 
form .75-1.00 each, 9.00 doz. 
Auratum Var. Platyphyllum. Carries 
broader foliage and the largest flow¬ 
ers of any of the auratums, more 
lightly spotted than in the type and 
often entirely spotless.. .30-.50 each, 4.0’0-6.00 doz. 
Auratum Var. Rubro-Vittatum. The 
flowers of this form are heavily 
blotched and spotted dark rosy pink, 
very distinct.1.00 each, 10.00 doz. 
Auratum Var. Virginale (Wittei). 
Beautiful snow white broad petalled 
flowers, a very lovely variety. ..75 each, $8.00 doz. 
NOTE—This year we have ordered all bulbs of 
auratums to be shipped with roots attached. In the 
past all roots have been removed before export and 
this has no doubt been in some measure responsible 
for the very unsatisfactory way in which they have 
grown and flowered in many cases. 
