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The Garden Magazine, April, 1923 
MADONNA LILIES 
Lilium candidum and Larkspur 
have become a favorite combina¬ 
tion of gardeners, the cool beauty 
of which is its own best praise. 
Home of Mr. Albert Herter at 
Easthampton, L. I. 
Jessie Tarbox Beals , Photo. 
the garden in the northern section of the country. A good way 
to outwit their aversion to the cold is to put them in pots in a 
deep coldframe, well mulched, for the winter. In late spring 
when all danger of frost is over one can either set them out on the 
terraces and verandas and practise the art of pot gardening 
(little known in America), or plunge them in some vacant and 
appropriate place in the garden. 
All-Summer Bloom and Some Perennial Combinations 
B Y CAREFUL selection one can have Lilies from June to the 
middle of September. They are handsome in the peren¬ 
nial border, and there are many lovely combinations of Lilies and 
perennials. The paler yellow ones look best with blue and pur¬ 
ple flowers. Tenuifolium, growing amongst white and blue 
Campanula persicifolia is very effective. Canadense and 
candidum, side by side, set one another off like a blond and a 
brunette, and with a background of Delphinium in all shades of 
blue they are a lovely sight. Speciosum blooms at the same 
time as purple Campanula pyramidalis, and with pale blue 
Salvia azurea is a fine combination when the rose colored variety 
is used. The white speciosum coming so late in the season is 
very decorative. The deeper orange Lilies are more difficult to 
handle in the border, but tigrinum, planted with yellow and 
brown Heleniums, white Boltonia, and a little soft lavender blue 
Campanula pyramidalis, makes a lovely picture. 
Plant where they are protected from the wind, so that they 
do not have to be staked, and their graceful stems can bend and 
sway under the weight of the flowers. Though mingling kindly 
with other plants, really Lilies are aristocrats and look best when 
associating with a few of their own kin only. The delicate 
outline of their form is lost when they are planted in masses. If 
one has the space to indulge one’s taste to an unlimited degree, 
plant among low-growing Evergreens with a background of 
taller shrubs, or with only the blue sky against which to outline 
their exquisite shape. The use of Lilies for effect is unlimited, 
but perhaps they show to superlative advantage in a small 
cottage garden where their regal presence dominates the whole 
scene. 
Fragrance is one of the finest qualities of the Lilies. A few 
of them, like some of the Martagons, have an unpleasant odor 
and therefore ought to be omitted. Some have such a power¬ 
ful fragrance that it is at times almost too strong. Some, like 
candidum, speciosum, and regale, especially in the evening, have 
the most exquisite scent of the whole garden. It makes one 
think of warm dark blue skies and bright southern moonlight 
and the terraced gardens of the Mediterranean with their tall, 
black Cypress trees. 
