

TRUMPET LILIES 
The trumpet lilies are a group unto themselves. Here too there 
is considerable variation in color, size and flowering period. 
There are several pinks but, unfortunately, almost none of them 
may be considered “fool-proof”. A very early and lovely lily is L. 
rubellum, a delicate pink and a beautiful plant, finer by far than any 
of our native orchids. Another is L. Washingtonianum that opens 
white but deepens to a soft orchid color as it matures. L. japonicum 
platyphyllum and L. japonicum follow these two into flower. 
The one true pale yellow is L. Parryi, beloved of the fanciers. It 
is difficult to establish but so lovely that it is well worth trying. 
When one thinks of lilies the dazzling display given by the great 
group of white trumpets comes first to mind. There are a number of 
these and they are deservedly popular. Some of them should be in- 
cluded in every garden and their uses are many—in the herbaceous 
border, in clumps along or through the shrubbery—in banked masses 
against the green of a clipped hedge or the warm grey of a stone wall 
—naturalized along the edge of a woodland or in clearings of the open 
woodland. We have even used them to festoon a difficult and unat- 
tractive slope and the grace of the stems as they bend down to greet 
the passerby is more than charming. 
The gardener should give consideration to the possibility of plant- 
ing them for succession of bloom. The somewhat formal L. candidum 
is the earliest. L. regale, the new form White Regale and L. Brownii 
have taken up the show before L. candidum is quite gone. They are 
just starting when L. centifolium and the Crow’s hybrids open heavy 
buds. The various forms of L. princeps including the glorious George 
C. Creelman follow at once. All of these are magnificient lilies. They 
are barely gone before the dwarf L. formosanum Pricei and the great 
open blooms of L. auratum have taken the limelight. L. sulphureum 
flowers in late August and early September and is one of the most 
majestic of all plants. The last of the lilies to bloom is the tall form 
of L. formosanum which opens in late September and continues until 
the heavy frosts fall on the garden. 
HYBRID LILIES 
The gardener cannot ignore the splendid work done by the hy- 
bridizers in lilies any more than he can in any other genus. They 
shave succeeded in combining the sturdiness and grace of the mar- 
tagons with the color and brilliance of the upright group of lilies and 
some remarkable plants have resulted. Among the finest are L. Scot- 
tiae and the new un-named forms of Scottiae hybrids. The magnif- 
icent and brilliant Fire King by Mr. Stooke is a mass of sheer flame 
as it grows at Sandyloam. Miss Preston’s Edna Kean and Brenda 
Watts are almost unbelievably beautiful. L. Willcrovidii is much taller 
than any of these and later and as striking a plant as grows. L. Have- 
meyer is destined to be the most important single garden plant for the 
month of August. 
NEW LILIES 
Our collection is characterized by the great number of rare lilies 
we are presenting. To avoid confusion we are, therefore, listing as 
“Rarities” only a very few items that have been previously cata- 
logued plus those lilies that we are actually making available to 
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