Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . L. SPECIOSUM. LILIES AS CLASSIFIED short. This sub-genus includes tigrinum, auratum,speciosum, and perhaps thenewer Henryi. Sub-genus IV. is calledIsolirion. In this sub - genus theflower is an open cup oforange, or reddish-orangecolouring carried upright,such as the Orange Lily {).. L. CROCEUM. Sub-genus V. is calledMartagon. These are Lilies of more or less turn-cap or turks-cap shape ; L. canadense, which is bell-shaped, beingthe mo

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Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . L. SPECIOSUM. LILIES AS CLASSIFIED short. This sub-genus includes tigrinum, auratum,speciosum, and perhaps thenewer Henryi. Sub-genus IV. is calledIsolirion. In this sub - genus theflower is an open cup oforange, or reddish-orangecolouring carried upright,such as the Orange Lily {).. L. CROCEUM. Sub-genus V. is calledMartagon. These are Lilies of more or less turn-cap or turks-cap shape ; L. canadense, which is bell-shaped, beingthe most notable half of them havethe leaves in whorls. Thepurple Martagon and thescarlet chalcedonicum arethe commonest represen-tatives among gardenLilies. M Sub-genus VI. is calledNotholirion. This sub-genus is nothere considered, as it is alink with the Fritillaries,and the only two species it contains are difficult andby no means indispensable garden flowers.

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