MRS. HENRY’S RARE NATIVE LILIES It is our privilege to pre- 
sent to American gardeners the native lilies discovered by Mrs. 
J. Norman Henry. The list will grow longer from year to year 
as additional varieties are ready for distribution. 
A collection of eight of Mrs. Henry’s new color series of L. 
philadelphicum was shown at the 1946 Lily Show of the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society. They were given a Silver Medal 
as well as the Society’s Award of Merit. 
CANADENSE GOLDEN RULE A most chaste and beautiful 
lily. The pure golden yellow flowers are completely spotless 
and have golden yellow pollen. No lily is more exquisitely 
lovely than this one. Young bulbs two years from scales. 
Each $20.00 
IRIDOLLAE Mrs. Henry’s already famous “Pot of Gold Lily.” 
A most remarkable and very beautiful new species of 
Lilium, discovered, collected, and grown by Mrs. Henry. 
The sweetly fragrant yellow flowers, often slightly stippled 
with pinkish red, are conspicuously spotted with dark 
brown in the throat. The pollen varies from bright ma- 
hogany red to yellowish brown. It is a Turk’s cap Lily with 
well recurved segments. This lovely Lily reaches a height 
of over 6 feet in its native home in the south and carries as 
many as 8 or more blooms. In northerly climates with 
their shorter growing seasons, it may not grow so tall. 
At Gladwyne it blooms at about 3 to 4 feet in height. The 
slender stems carry oblanceolate leaves, typically in whorls 
and roughened on the margins and beneath the prominent 
veins. The upper leaves are small and so far apart as toe 
give the upper portion of the stems a leafless appearance. 
The requirements of this exquisite Lily are a position in a 
sheltered spot and an acid sandy soil. Grown in this man- 
ner at Gladwyne it has survived five subzero winters out of 
doors with no mulch or protection of any kind. A full tech- 
nical description of Lilium iridollae by Mrs. Henry ap- 
peared in Bartonia No. 24, published by the Phila. Bot. 
Club, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Pa. Each $60.00 
PHILADELPHICUM BLACK DIAMOND A wonderful and 
weirdly beautiful lily. The blood red flowers are heavily 
blotched with black from base to tip of petals. 
Three year old bulbs from scales. Not available in 1951 
SUPERBUM, var. COPPERHEAD An odd and attractively 
colored lily that is difficult to describe. The petals and 
sepals are a pastel tawny orange with a bronze glow. The 
midribs on the outside are dark and the deep maroon spots 
on the inside are comparatively large and conspicuous. The 
flower is free from any red shading. Each $15.00 
SUPERBUM, var. HOWARD HENRY The very handsome 
blood-red flowers, ‘“Nopal Red” R. are of an exceptionally 
rich shade and highly glossy. The throat is soft orange 
ornamented with tiny dark dots. The texture of the petals 
is thick and waxlike. It is a lily of great beauty and dis- 
tinction, and conspicuous from afar. Each $20.00 
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