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Lilies are so beautiful, and many of them are so fragrant, that you 
may think they are hard to grow, but such is not the case with most 
of the following varieties—they are easy. 
Generally, they are best planted where their roots will be in shadow 
and their stems and Jeaves in full light. Ideal positions are amid 
shrubs or in the annual or perennial border, or in the companionship 
of ground-cover. Any good garden soil will serve, provided it drains 
well. Spade the Iand to a depth of 18 inches and work mm our Bulb 
Fertilizer; plant the bulbs in groups of three or more of a kind, setting 
Canadense flavum. The Meadow Lily of 
fields and roadsides. In July, its tall stems, 
3 to 5 feet high, bear great sprays of nod- 
ding, bell-like pale yellow flowers dotted 
with maroon. It is stem-rooting, likes moist 
well-drained acid soil. Plant 8 inches deep 
in full sun or light shade and roots should 
be kept cool with a ground-cover. 40 cts. 
each, $3.50 for 10, $30 per 100. 
Canadense rubrum. Like above but has 
orange-red flowers. 40 cts. each, $3.50 for 
10, $30 per 100. 
Concolor (Star Lily). Lovely star-shaped 
vermilion Lily 114 inches long, slightly 
fragrant, borne erect on 114-foot stems in 
June and July. Plant about 3 inches deep. 
45 cts. each, $4 for 10, $35 per 100. 
Davidi. Showy, nodding 3-inch cinnabar-red 
or scarlet blooms, spotted with black, on 
A to 5-foot stems i July. Plant 6 imches 
deep. 50 cts. each, $4.50 for 10, $40 per 100. 
Henryi (Yellow Speciosum). A very lovely 
flower of the Speciosum type. Vigorous, it 
grows 6 to 8 feet high in favorable places, 
and likes to root among low shrubs, sending 
its tall stems up into the sunlight where its 
bright apricot-yellow flowers (more than 
twenty on a plant) may show at their best. 
Blooms in July and August. Plant 8 
inches deep. Strong bulbs, 60 cts. each, 
$5 for 10, $40 per 100. 
Kelloggi. Rare and beautiful Lily with 
recurved 2-inch pink flowers spotted with 
purplish black borne erectly on 3 to 4-foot 
stems in July. Very graceful and fragrant. 
Plant bulbs on their sides, about 5 inches 
deep, in shade. $1 each, $9.50 for 10, 
$90 per 100. 
Maxwill. L. Maximowiczi X L. Willmottiz. 
Reflexed bright red flowers, stamens orange- 
red, and have the habit of looking one 
straight in the face. Blooms in late July. 
Height 6 feet. Plant 8 inches deep. 50 cts. 
each, $4.50 for 10, $40 per 100. 
Philadelphicum (Wood Lily; Orange Cup 
Lily). Striking native plants, thriving in 
dry, sandy places with partial shade. The 
short stalks are 1 to 2 feet high, with 
dark red, erect cup-shaped flowers in July. 
Plant 5 inches deep. 40 cts. each, $3.50 for 
10, $30 per 100. 


HARDY LILIES 
Philippinense formosanum 
Philippinense formosanum (Price’s Va- 
riety). Hardy Easter Lily. Long white 
trumpets on 3-foot stems in July and 
August. Green throat adds to the pictur- 
esqueiflower. Fragrance is mild but delight- 
ful. Plant 5 to 6 inches deep. 60 cts. each, 
$5.50 for 10, $50 per 100. 
Regale (Royal Lily). Originally from 
western China, enormous alabaster trum- 
pets are tinged with rose outside and suf- 
fused with gold within. Most popular and 
the easiest to grow. Stem-rooting; plant 
6 to 8 inches deep in good well-drained 
soil. Grows 4 to 6 feet tall. Blooms July. 
Each 10 100 
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Shelburne Hybrids. Bloom after other 
Lilies are over. Flowers vary in size 
and form and range from pure white to 
blush. Your garden needs them. 80 cts. 
each, $7 for 10, $65 per 100. 
Speciosum magnificum (Showy Lily; 
Oriental Orchid). Words cannot describe 
the beauty of this variety, and the picture 
on page 69 does it bare justice. Frosted 
white, spotted, clouded and bordered with 
deep pinkish crimson. Plant it in the per- 
ennial border among hardy plants or along- 
side ‘rhododendrons; splendid for pot 
culture as well. Blooms outside in August. 
80 cts. each, $7 for 10, $60 per 100. 




them on a 1-inch layer of sand. This will aid soil drainage, and pre- 
vent the bulbs rotting through excess moisture. 
Many Lilies are ‘‘stem-rooters,”’ that Is, they develop roots on the 
stem above the bulb, in addition to roots below the bulb. Other 
kinds are ‘‘basal-rooters,’’ depending on roots below the bulb only. 
Stem-rooters are plante 
covered by a hickiess of soil twice the size of the bulb, from base 
to top; basal-rooters are planted shallow, overlaid by soil equal to 
one-half the size of the bulb. 
d deep enough that the top of the bulb is 
Speciosum album (White Orchid Lily.) 
This most beautiful of Lilies flowers out- 
side in August. Among shrubs or peren- 
nials is a good place to plant it. See illus- 
tration on page 90 cts. each, $8 
for 10, $70 per 100. 
Superbum (Turk’s-Cap Lily). It grows 
5 to 8 feet high, with an immense, pyram- 
idal cluster of brilliant orange-red, turban- 
shaped flowers, yellowish inside and spotted 
brown. Plant 6 inches deep in well- 
drained, slightly acid, or neutral soil well 
filled with peat or Ieaf-mold; best in partial 
shade. Blooms in July. 25 cts. each, 
$2.25 for 10, $20 per 100. 
Tenuifolium (Coral Lily). Dwarf, very 
graceful Lily, with thread-ltke leaves and 
clusters of nodding, tiny, bell-like, recurved 
flowers of brilliant coral-red in June. Likes 
damp soil among rocks, with access to sun- 
light. Plant 6 inches deep. 25 cts. each, 
$2.25 for 10, $20 per 100. 
Tenuifolium, Golden Gleam. This beauti- 
ful golden yellow form of the above is a 
very welcome addition to your Lily col- 
lection. Grows approximately 18 to 24 
inches high and blooms at the same time as 
the scarlet form listed above. 35 cts. each, 
$3.25 for 10, $30 per 100. 
Testaceum (Nankeen Lily). Grows 3 to 
6 feet tall and bears three to more than a 
dozen very charming, nodding, Turk’s- 
Cap flowers, white outside, dusky orange 
or pale apricot within. Plant 21% inches 
deep in sweet soil. Bloomsin June and July. 
$1.75 each, $15 for 10, $140 per 100. 
Tigrinum splendens. The Tiger Lily is 
well known; showy, spotted red-orange 
flowers in wayside gardens in August 
and later. Easy to grow, thriving in 
full sun in any soil. Plant 6 inches deep. 
AO cts. each, $3.50 for 10, $30 per 100. 
Tigrinum flore-pleno. The double Tiger 
Lily is even showier and more handsome. 
40 cts. each, $3.50 for 10, $30 per 100. 
Willmottiz. The 3 to 4-foot stem in July 
and August bears fifteen to twenty brilliant 
orange-red flowers measuring 3 inches 
across, with recurved petals freely dotted 
with brownish spots. Needs _ staking. 
Plant 8 tnches deep. 50 cts. each, $4.50 
for 10, $40 per 100. 

68 Hardy Lilies 
For best results with Lilies, be sure to follow the above directions 
as to planting depth 
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