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hundreds in all colors, shapes and seasons, must , be 
evaluated and scored. While, if need be, we are fully 
competent to do so, it is of help to have the privilege 
of drawing on the experience of others. Our business 
is wholesale only and, in a way, we must depend on 
our visitors to tell us gee is wanted by American 
gardeners. 
A NEW RACE/OF LILIES 
We take great pride in offering this year, on an 
experimental basis and on‘a small scale only, the ten 
new lilies described below. It was our original inten- 
tion to withhold these lilies from the market until the 
year 1950, when they were to be introduced as the 
Mid-Century Lilies, thereby quite clearly earmarking 
them as starting at the halfway mark of our century, a 
new era in lily variety and culture. 
matter with several of ouf customers, it was brought 
out that prior to general introduction there should be 
some initial trial plantings. Color plates are being pre- 
pared and together with many good black and white 
illustrations they will be part of a comprehensive book 
on lilies and their culture which will be published 
shortly. 
From the hundreds of new lilies grown we selected 
the ten varieties listed below, not only for their beauty, 
but also for their great vigor and endurance under 
adverse conditions. These lilies grow as well or better 
than either Tiger lilies or Umbellatums. They are as 
colorful and spectacular as any lilies grown and they 
are the easiest to pr opagate. One of them, our new 
lily “Enchantment” has been patented and may not be 
propagated’ commercially, except by special license 
issued by us. The others are not so restricted for, 
frankly, we believe that the more widely grown, the 
more these lilies will help to stimulate interest. We 
have no desire to monopolize the industry and while 
we feel that in these fine Tigrinum-Umbellatum hybrids 
we have achieved a major and sensational advance in 
arden lily breeding, we are happy to let other eronets 
’ share with us in this achievement. 
Since it is impossible for us to send these bulbs out 
as free trials we decided to release a few so that they 
could be grown and shown in different locations. We. 
must point out, however, that the 1949 introduction of 
these ten lilies is on a small scale only and for experi- 
mental purposes. We shall only release a few hundred 
of each of these varieties and shall be most) grateful 
for frank, unbiased reports on their behavior and per- 
formance in your gardens and nurseries or in those of 
your customers. 
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We offer this year only one lily which besides the 
Tigrinum-Umbellatum blood -also shows markedly q 
some L. Willmottiae blood. This is the choice novelty — 
“TALISMAN” which we describe as follows: This is a 
lily which in flowering habit and color resembles the 
well-known L. Maxwill, but which bears numerous 
black-brown bulbils in the axils of the dark-green 
leaves. It has shown itself to be of great value in 
breeding, but should also find ready acceptance as a. 
earden plant. This lily will bear up to fifteen large, ' 
nodding flowers with reflexed petals, orange-red in 
color and- densely spetted with purplish black. The 
thin, but very strong and wiry stem grows up to six 
feet tall. The bulb is-of medium size. It flowers i in July © 
when its brilliant coloring makes it quite conspicuous 
in the garden. f 
Four of the 1949 introductions are upright lilies. 
“These are true Tigrinum- Umbellatum hybrids. All of 
them will show bulbils in the axils of the leaves. if the 
flower or the buds are_removed early in the season. _ 
“Enchantment” will have bulbils, even if allowed to 
flower normally. 
the first of July. Their blazing colors and their straight, 
stiff stems made them stand out on our nurseries, and 
their radical departure in form, habit and coloring 
from, anything that has been seen in lilies up to the 
time these novelties flowered, was noticed by every 
visitor. . 
_“PAGODA” is one of the tallest uprights in our 
present collection. Scaled bulbs grew good three feet 
stems and we believe that in the garden mature bulbs 
will produce stems of four feet. The flowers, six to 
eight carried on good pedicels and nicely arranged, are 
of a true orange- -chrome or Marigold orange. This lily 
‘seems to be a “natural” for large flower arrangements. 
“CAMPFIRE” 
colored lilies in our planting. The color can best be 
described as a rich, deep, fiery Indian red. It has a 
few spots on each petal, but since they are maroon-red, 
they are hardly noticeable. The petals are pointed and 
rather narrow, giving distinction to the plant which, 
in a nursery, is three feet high and probably much 
taller,in the garden. 
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“ENCHANTMENT,” patented lily, seems to be the 
most prolific, as well as the most beautiful of all the. 
lilies that wé have raised. It may be worth noting that 
this lily grew from seed planted in the’ spring of 1942 
and that, while our stocks are still small, only seven 
years later, we have enough bulbs to warrant color plat- — 
ing and commercial introduction. Enchantment is an 
upright lily of excellent habit, with many well-formed 
flowers of a vivid Nasturtium-Red. Full of life and 
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