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. L. Martagon (the type) is the old 
European 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 
peas 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. 
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 
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