fine addition to our garden lilies. Carrying as many as 
from six to nine flowers on a thin, wiry and tough stem, 
it stands from four to five feet tall. Magnificent cut and 
show flower but equally good in the herbaceous border. 
Flowers attractively spotted maroon. each, $3.00 
‘*Roseanna McCoy”’—A sister-seedling of Joan Evans, 
is a bright orange, upright flowering lily with from 
six to ten lovely star-shaped flowers per stem. The color 
is undoubtedly derived from L. concolor and this lily 
might well be described as a giant Concolor with hybrid 
vigor. Fine for cutting and for the border. _ each, $5.00 
L. longiflorum—variety “‘Croft”—A pure white, 
short-stemmed Easter lily which has been the subject 
of much wild speculation during the recent war years. 
It is a greenhouse and florist flower and has great merit 
for forcing in pots. It is not a garden lily. 
per 1000, 6-7”, $150.00; 7-8’, $225.00; 8-9’, $300.00 
L, longifiorum—variety “Estate”—A tall form of L. 
longiflorum, and for that reason better suited for garden 
use than the Croft. Neither variety is entirely hardy. 
Their pure white flowers can be very attractive in special 
settings. They are too formal and too short to fit in well 
in most gardens. per 1000, 6-7”, $200.00; 7-8’, $300.00 
L. “Lillian Cummings’’—One of the best of Miss 
Preston’s introductions, this hybrid of L. Davidii and 
L. Elegans-Dauricum bears grenadine-red flowers on 
three to five foot stems. A most worth-while garden plant, 
it is vigorous and disease-free and of easy culture. Plant 
the bulbs four to six inches deep in either full sun or 
partial shade. This lily divides and increases rapidly and 
should be lifted and separated when the bulbs become 
crowded. Early July flowering. 
per 1000, 4-5’, $300.00; 5-6’, $500.00 
L. martagon album—The pure white form of the 
long cultivated Martagon lily that is so popular in Eu- 
rope and England. The dainty waxy flowers are grace- 
fully placed and form a symmetrical pyramid on 4-foot 
stems. One of the most permanent of all lilies, once it is 
happily settled it will increase from year to year, forming 
larger and finer spikes. Our seedlings have prospered 
extremely well and the bright yellow bulbs are sound 
and healthy. It should be planted not deeper than four 
inches in a well drained sunny location. Best grown 
among low evergreen shrubs, Martagon album is equally 
useful in the cottage garden or estate woodland. 
per 1000, 5-6’, $500.00; 6-7”, $650.00 
OREGON BULB FARMS 
GRESHAM, OREGON 
MID-CENTURY HYBRIDS— 
Last year, for the first time, we offered a very limited 
number of these new lilies to the trade. The response 
was so overwhelming that we found ourselves oversold 
even before the normal sales season opened. When, in 
October, the Saturday Evening Post spotlighted these 
lilies and singled out our patented novelty “Enchant- 
ment” for a color portrait, we had to turn down literally 
hundreds of orders. This year, with only slightly larger 
stocks to draw upon, we expect to sell out again at an 
early date. Notwithstanding this fact we have decided 
not to raise our. prices. We do not expect the firms who 
ordered too late last year to pay a higher price, nor do 
we think that new lilies should be sold at prices which 
are, in effect, prohibitive to all but a very few gardeners. 
Moreover, we want to avoid, in so far as that is in our 
power, any such wild speculation in these lilies as hap- 
pened with the Croft lily. All these Mid-Century lilies 
propagate readily and they can be increased in number 
in many ways. It is our aim to get them known and 
used, not as high-priced rarities for only the few to 
enjoy but as popular garden lilies for all parts of our 
country. 
The Mid-Century Hybrids are, as is probably well- 
known by now, the result of a rather involved hybridiza- 
tion process that has included such popular lilies as L. 
tigrinum on the one side and hybrids between L. dauri- 
cum, L. concolor, L. aurantiacum and several others on 
the other side. Crossing and backcrossing these lilies 
and their offspring, we have evolved the strain which we 
introduce to the trade this year. From their parents these 
lilies have inherited the hardiness, the coloring and the 
resistance to disease that is to be found in at least some 
of them. The bulbil-bearing characteristic comes, for 
instance, not only from L. tigrinum but also from L. 
bulbiferum. The soft, pinkish-orange tones that some of 
these lilies display, must be ascribed to the influence of 
L. tigrinum. The mahogany shades and the rich reds of 
CAMPFIRE and FIREFLAME come directly from L. 
umbellatum. 
Only one of these lilies, Enchaniment, is patented 
(U.S. Plant Patent 862). It may not be grown commer- 
cially without our express consent. The others are not 
protected in this manner for we believe that the more 
widely these fine lilies are grown, the better the cause 
of all lilies will be served. Last year, in our 1949 catalog, 
we offered nine lilies of the Mid-Century group. This 
year we have added eight more, making seventeen in 
all. We know that this number is high and that, even- 
tually, perhaps not more than a dozen varieties will 
emerge that will meet with public favor. On the other 
hand, it must be noted that we have in these lilies such 
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