in May with the eighteen inch L. tenuifolium and closes with a five 
foot form of L. speciosum in October. 
Looking into the yellow members of the group, there are a num- 
ber and all are good. One of the loveliest of all garden subjects is the 
early L. Szovitzianum. Following this we have L. amabile luteum, 
another fine lily that deserves high favor—both because of its beauty 
and its habit of growth. L. Hansoni and our native L. canadense are 
on the scene when L. amabile luteum is gone. Mr. Constable’s Violet 
M. Constable, Miss Preston’s Coronation, L. superbum var. Norman 
Henry are all three new and priceless additions to the garden. The 
golden orange L. Henryi and some of the Havemeyer seedlings are 
the last of the yellow Turk’s Caps to flower. 
The orange and vermilion martagons are legion but each has a 
flavor peculiar to itself. They are all useful and colorful garden sub- 
jects and a number of them might well be included in any planting. 
The gardener may select in terms of succession of color and of habit 
so as to have a continuous and variable display. L. tenuifolium is the 
earliest to flower and this is followed by L. amabile which is not so 
well known as it deserves to be. To follow L. amabile the gardener 
might select either L. Willmottiae or Davmottiae which are very 
much alike and, with them, at least one form of L. superbum, parda- 
linum or the Bellingham hybrids. L. Davidii and L. Maxwill follow 
these into flower. We consider L. Maxwill one of the finest of garden 
subjects and have drastically reduced the price so as to make it avail- 
able to all gardens. The forms of L. tigrinum take up the splash of 
color when Maxwill is gone. Almost without exception any of the 
lilies mentioned in this group grow as vigorously and are as pro- 
nounced ornaments to the garden as is the well known and popular 
L. tigrinum. 
The pink and purple Turk’s Caps include some of our loveliest 
garden plants. L. cernuum is a choice plant though it will need 
replacing from time to time. lL. Martagon (the type) is the old 
Kuropean garden stand-by and its various forms bring the purple 
tones down to a color so deep that it approaches black. 
The magnificent group known as the Backhouse hybrids gener- 
ally range from ivory flushed with gold or pink through the pink 
and purple tones but also include the beautiful mahogany-colored 
L. Dalhasonii and L. Marhan var. Ellen Willmott. 
There are more pink Turk’s Cap lilies for the end of summer 
including the well-known L. speciosum which, if planted in its 
various forms will give quite a long succession of bloom, and L. 
Wardii which flowers in late August and is one of the loveliest 
plants in existence. We have found L. Wardii of easy culture but 
pees that it is probably not always readily adaptable to a given 
ocation. 
The white forms of the various Turk’s Cap lilies are compara- 
tively limited but each is choice. They include the indispensable L. 
Martagon album followed by L. Duchartrei and L. speciosum album 
which flowers late—at the same time as the rare L. taliense. All are 
very lovely indeed but both L. Duchartrei and taliense are new, are of 
the same family as L. Wardii and may or may not be happy in any 
specific garden. 
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