among low evergreen shrubs, Martagon album is equally 
useful in the cottage garden or estate woodland. 
per 1000, 5-6’, $400.00; 6-7”, $500.00 
L. nepalense—We are very glad to be able to offer 
this rare and most beautiful lily from central and west- 
ern Himalaya. The bell-shaped, pendant flowers are of 
a rich emerald-green color, stained deepest wine-purple 
on the inside. The largest specimen on our farms showed 
OREGON BULB FARMS 
GRESHAM, OREGON 
five flowers, well spaced on a four foot stem. It may be 
that mature specimens will be taller. This lily, which re- 
putedly is not hardy, withstood our coldest winter with- 
out difficulty. We believe that its main requirement is 
not so much warmth as moisture, for test lots grown by 
us in entirely different locations did uniformly well. It 
produces bulblets on the long, wandering, underground 
part of the stems. each, $2.00 
MID-CENTURY HYBRIDS | 
This year, the third that we offer our Mid-Century 
Hybrid Lilies to you, we find ourselves at the turning 
point in their production. No longer are they the pre- 
cious novelties of 1949 and 1950. We grow them now 
in quantity and our prices have been reduced to a level 
that puts them within the reach of all gardeners. Some 
of them are still too scarce and too high priced for the 
general catalog. Others, such as Enchantment, Pagoda 
and Valencia should be listed by all progressive seed- 
stores and bulb dealers. 
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, Enchantment, is patented 
(U.S. Plant Patent 862). It may not be grown com- 
mercially without our express consent. No parallel can 
be drawn between these hybrids and any other group of 
lilies, ever introduced. The colors range from palest 
straw-yellow to deepest maroon-red. The habit varies 
from pendant, as in the Tiger lily, to large outward- 
facing flowers, never before seen, to enormous, vividly 
colored, upright lilies. They also vary in flowering 
time, in height and in their rate of increase. With all 
these variants, we feel that some twenty different named 
varieties are not too many. 
The bulbs of all these lilies should be planted about 
four to six inches deep. They will thrive in any good, 
well-drained, porous garden soil, preferably in the full 
sun. They can be increased very easily from scales, 
underground bulblets, by bulbils that form in the axils 
of the leaves and by ordinary, natural division of the 
bulb. We repeat that our “Enchantment” is patented and 
that it may not be propagated commercially without 
special license. 
L. “Enchantment’’—U:5S. Plant Patent No. 862 
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