<$8 FLORAL DECORATIONS. 
flowers; Lilium lancifolium album, white flowers with 
green veins ; Lilium lancifolium rubrum, white with car¬ 
mine spots all over the upper surface of the sepals ; Lilium 
lancifolium punctatum, differing but little from the last 
named but somewhat larger; Lilium auratum, the mag¬ 
nificent gold-banded Japan Lily — the largest of all Lilies 
This selection of Lilies Mull produce a succession of flowers 
until August, and then comes the Day-Lily or Funkia, 
tHemerocailis Japonica,) just in time to keep up continued 
bloom with the Lilies. The flowers of the Day-Lily are 
somewhat trumpet-shaped, pure white and deliciously 
fragrant. 
The Dicentra Spectabilis cannot be spared from this list, 
indeed, its beauty, grace and hardiness make it particularly 
desirable. Violets and Pansies scarcely require a word to 
be said for them as they are so well-known—in a word 
they are indispensable. 
The double white, and the pink and salmon colored 
varieties of the Chinese Peeonies are quite desirable and 
some of them are almost as fragrant as a Rose—all of them 
are hardy. 
The perennial Phlox is a hardy plant of a great number 
of varieties of many shades and markings ; it blooms freely 
and the different varieties succeed each other from mid- 
