Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both . s, but there is no diflficulty ifit is planted close to the outside of the south wall ofa plant-house where it may have the benefit of someof the warmth of the pipes within. There is hardly agarden I go round that does not neglect the oppor-tunity of growing this grand thing. ScarboroughLily is the common name of the beautiful this good plant is not so often grown as formerlyI am unable to understand, for in my young days therewas hardly a garden that had not some well-estab-lished pots of it, wherea
Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both . s, but there is no diflficulty ifit is planted close to the outside of the south wall ofa plant-house where it may have the benefit of someof the warmth of the pipes within. There is hardly agarden I go round that does not neglect the oppor-tunity of growing this grand thing. ScarboroughLily is the common name of the beautiful this good plant is not so often grown as formerlyI am unable to understand, for in my young days therewas hardly a garden that had not some well-estab-lished pots of it, whereas now, though one sees a planthere and there, it is certainly much less frequent. The Lilies of France and the Lily of Florence are,of course, Irises, and indeed the beauty of this wonder-ful family entitles them to a place within the mostexclusive aristocracy of flowers. How well the Lily name of honour is deserved bythe white Water-Lily {Nymphcea alba), and its near rela-tions the coloured Water-Lilies of other countries, andthe beautiful garden kinds that have been raised by. The Caie yCrimtm, garden varieties). ROSES AND LILIES 81 the eminent French horticulturist, M. this gentlemans labours we owe a whole newrange of lovely varieties of the highest garden the country our best amateurs are making-ponds and tanks on purpose for then* culture, andsome day I shall endeavour to point out how theiruse might be adapted to some of the most highlyrefined developments of formal or architecturalgardening. And the true Lilies, the many lovely flowers com-prised within the botanical family of Zilium; whatwould our gardens be without them ? Ever first andbest comes the White Lily, emblem of spotless purity,and noblest and loveliest of garden flowers. To my great regret this grand Lily is almost im-possible to grow in my poor, hot soil, even in weU-prepared beds. It thrives in chalk and nearly all richloams, and I am full of a pardonable gardeners
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