Lilium Hansoni. a June-blooming yellow lily 
that attains a height of four feet 
Lilium Leitchlini requires leaf-mold and 
manure added to the soil 
Lilium croceum , a cup-shaped type, as distin¬ 
guished from the adjoining Turk’s cap forms 
Lilies Everyone Can Grow 
A SUMMARY OF THE VARIETIES THAT CAN BE RAISED IN THE HOME GARDEN 
WITHOUT DIFFICULTY—WHICH LILIES TO SELECT AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
by Russell Fisher 
Photographs by Nathan R. Graves 
E VERYBODY ought to grow lilies. Next to the rose there 
is probably no flower that stands higher in popular favor 
than the lily, yet for some strange reason people seem to leave 
tions are Brown’s Lily ( Lilium Brownii), Lilium Canadense, 
Lilium maculatum (known in the catalogues as Lilium Hansoni), 
and Lilium Leitchlini (/.. Mafimowic^ii). 
it out of their list of plants for beau¬ 
tifying the home grounds. Perhaps 
this is done in the thought that the lily 
is hard to grow. If so, the idea is a 
mistaken one, for if the few simple re¬ 
quirements are fully grasped at the out¬ 
set, there is little difficulty to be met 
with, and the resulting bloom cannot 
be equaled in richness and beauty. 
To grow lilies successfully outdoors 
it is necessary, first of all, to select the 
kinds that will be suitable for the avail¬ 
able location—some lilies do best in 
sunny locations, others like the shade. 
Then again, some do best in ordinary 
soils, some in peaty soils, and still 
others in a combination of peat and 
loam. So the thing to do is, decide 
upon the location first — if that is the 
essential thing, and then select the 
kind of lilies that will do well in that. 
Or, if you can have any sort of a loca¬ 
tion and soil that may be required, pick 
out the lilies that you would rather 
have, and plant them in the place and 
soil that they will like best. 
Lilies that thrive best in shady loca¬ 
Lilium speciosum, vars. album and rubrum. The 
rubrum is the easier to grow 
The sunshine-loving varieties are 
Lilium croceum, the Madonna or Annun¬ 
ciation Lily (Lilium candidum), Lilium 
speciosum, Lilium Martagon, and others. 
There are many other varieties to be 
found in the specialists’ lists, of course, 
but the above are all well known and 
may be recommended for the amateur. 
Of those mentioned, the Madonna Lily 
is the most reliable and at the same 
time the cheapest white lily. It is of 
the erect bell-shaped type, with flowers 
about four inches long. The bulbs may 
be had for $i .50 a dozen. These should 
be planted early in the fall; they usu¬ 
ally start early into growth, so are more 
likely to flower the next season if they 
are planted now. 
Lilies that thrive in good ordinary 
garden mold are: the Madonna Lily, 
Lilium Hansoni, Lilium Martagon, 
Lilium speciosum and Lilium Chalce- 
donicum. With these it is necessary 
to add only some well rotted manure to 
the soil before planting, and a little 
coarse sand if the soil happens to be 
heavy. Of these Lilium Martagon is 
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