GaRDEN L1Es 1s a book to be read for pleasure as well as profit. It captures all the charm 
and fascination that characterize this loveliest of all garden plants. Because of their great 
beauty and distinction, lilies have for centuries been brought from the far corners of the 
world to grace our gardens. Hence the book opens with a survey of the geographical 
sources of origin which takes the reader across oceans and continents to the muck of the 
tropics, the gravelly soil of oriental mountain streams, and the rich loam of European 
meadows and woodlands. 
aUrVraen aa 
ALAN ann ESTHER MACNEIL 

NEW YORK 
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 
1946 
