NEW LILIES FOR 1954 
L. CANDIDUM HYBRIDS 
Jewel — Constant crossing and re-crossing of the 
best seedlings of our famous Cascade strain of 
Liliwm candidum with rare hybrids from L. testa- 
ceum and L. chalcedonicum has given us some 
very beautiful varieties. One of the best of these 
bears tall, shapely spikes of glistening pure white 
flowers, broad-petaled and long lasting as in the 
best candidums, yet adorned with jewel-like scar- 
let anthers of L. chalcedonicum. We have selected 
this plant not only for its innate beauty and poise, 
but also for its proven sound constitution and a 
degree of disease resistance equal to that of our 
Cascade candidums. We can confidently recom- 
mend this plant. each, $6.00 
White Knight — Many years ago a fine seedling 
from the candidum-chalcedonicum hybrid L. tes- 
taceum was raised and named White Knight. 
Unfortunately it lacked vigor and was soon lost, 
which was a pity since it was a most beautiful 
lily. The flowers were those of a glistening pure 
white candidum with yellow anthers, but were 
_ disposed in an umbel and pointed downwards. 
Among the many thousands of seedlings we have 
raised we have had many with these characters 
and quality but the one we have selected to rep- 
resent White Knight has an excellent constitu- 
tion and has grown and propagated well with us. 
Moreover, it has glowing red anthers, giving add1- 
tional beauty to the plant. each, $7.50 
L. DAURICUM HYBRIDS 
Tangerine—I{ not the earliest of all lilies, this 
is certainly the showiest of the early ones for, 
opening in early June, its large wide cup-shaped 
flowers of unspotted glowing tangerine orange 
offer a most brilliant display in the garden. This 
large-flowered free-flowering lily is a superb new 
form of dauricum and inherits from that plant a 
vigor and resistance to disease and climatic varia- 
tion much to be desired in lilies. each, $3.00 
L. MAXIMOWICZII—The best forms of this species 
produce superb brilliant fiery orange-red spikes of 
flowers 5-8 feet in height long after most lilies are 
over. When well grown they are taller, later and 
much more striking than the popular L. tigrinum 
to which they bear some resemblance, and further, 
respond equally well to generous treatment. When 
it originally came from the mountains of Korea and 
Japan many inferior types were at first cultivated, 
but now careful breeding and selection have im- 
proved it tremendously. We now recommend this 
lily as one of the most brilliant of autumn flowers. 
per each, 5/6” $0.30; 6’”/up $0.50 
L. SPECIOSUM HYBRID — This most beautiful 
and well known lily, the “rubrum” of the florist and 
market grower, is one of the finest species, but its 
very popularity has helped to obscure its greatest 
beauty. 
The insistent demands of the florist call for a 
uniform clonal stock which the grower can produce 
cheaply and which will force easily. Luckily such 
forms exist, among which our Red Champion and 
White Champion are acknowledged supreme. How- 
ever, in selecting plants with these excellent quali- 
ties others have been passed by. 
We have many such superior types which regu- 
larly produce huge bulbs, stems of 5-7 feet high 
and large numbers of most brilliant flowers on each 
stem. Most of them flower later than Red Cham- 
pion and add a very welcome note of color to the 
autumn garden. 
We can offer limited quantities for sale in 1954 
and strongly recommend that they be planted in 
light shade and rich soil as permanent features of 
the garden. They are also excellent for large pots 
or tubs, but are not especially recommended for 
forcing. 
“Melpomene” Hybrids—Very rich carmine crim- 
son, late. each, $3.00 
NEW YELLOW LILIES 
For some years after the advent of our famous 
Mid-Century Hybrids we tried to introduce into the 
strain true yellow forms. We wanted clean yellows, 
not orange or buff. Then among some crosses with 
the best forms of LZ. amabile luteum, there flowered 
a dozen or more pure yellow seedlings. These have 
been grown side by side and rigorously compared 
and checked for all the qualities a commercial lily 
should have, and all except three have been dis- 
carded, not so much because they were bad, but be- 
cause the others were superior in every way: 
Now that we have propagated good stocks and 
proved the constitutions to be all that is desirable, 
we are able to offer for sale three beautiful and 
very healthy plants. 
Destiny — A superb upright-flowered yellow lily 
which is certain to take a prominent place among 
the Mid-Century group. The open chalice-shaped 
flowers are brilliant canary yellow with just 
enough large brown spots in the center to afford 
welcome contrast. As many as ten well shaped 
flowers are carried above lustrous dark green fo- 
liage on stems three to four feet tall. _ each, $5.00 
Felicity—Perhaps the best of the new yellow lilies. 
It shares with Destiny the beautiful clean yellow 
hitherto never seen in lilies and the same perfect 
shape of the flowers, but in this variety they are 
borne on taller stems, and most appropriately, 
face outwards. The ten to twelve beautifully pro- 
portioned flowers are well spaced on the intlo- 
rescences and on established plants are carried 
on stems 314-5 feet high. The foliage is the same 
rich dark shining green as in Destiny. The plant 
has an excellent constitution and propagates 
freely. each, $5.00 
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