CLASSIFICATION OF THE LILIES LISTED 
Lilies may be roughly classified into three main groups: 
(1) Upright or umbellatum. 
(2) Turk’s Cap or martagon. 
(3) Trumpet. 
Within each classification there is an almost endless variation in 
size, shape, color and flowering season. If we take each of the three 
in turn we shall get a somewhat clearer picture of the lilies that com- 
pose a given group. 
UPRIGHT LILIES 
L. umbellatum is typical in shape and flowering habit of most 
members of the family. It is illustrated in the plate of L. umbellatum 
erectum. The colors are largely in the red, orange, vermillion, apricot 
and yellow tones. Purples, pinks and whites are excluded. The season 
starts in late May with various forms of L. dauricum and ends in mid- 
August with L. dauricum pardinum. Most of the orange-red umbel- 
latum lilies are familiar but the yellows, the apricots and the dark 
reds are not quite so widely known and have a distinct charm. 
These lilies differ from all others in their stature and height, 
rarely attaining 314 feet while many are as dwarf as eight inches. 
The combination of the height with the broad brilliantly colored up- 
right blooms makes them extraordinarily effective for mass planting 
either in the herbaceous border or against shrubbery. 
MARTAGON LILIES 
Turk’s Cap lilies are well illustrated in the fine plate of L. ama- 
bile. They all have pendant flowers more or less recurved, tend to 
grow in clumps and have a rather slender wiry stem. They run the 
entire gamut of color from the pure white and pale pinks through 
the various yellows, the orange reds, the vermillions, the scarlets, the 
deep reds; through the lovely orchid tones of L. cernuum to the deep 
purple, almost black, of L. Martagon Cattaniae. The season starts 
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 
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