Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . onTiger Lily Though introduced from China not much more thana hundred years ago, the Tiger Lily is among thosethat we cherish as old English garden flowers, sofamiliar is it, not only in our gardens, but in oldpictures and in the samplers and embroideries of ourgreat-grandmothers. Excepting the later blooms of L. auratum, some ofwhich go on till the end of October, the Tiger is thelatest flowering of our Lilies, being in full bloom inSeptember.
Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . onTiger Lily Though introduced from China not much more thana hundred years ago, the Tiger Lily is among thosethat we cherish as old English garden flowers, sofamiliar is it, not only in our gardens, but in oldpictures and in the samplers and embroideries of ourgreat-grandmothers. Excepting the later blooms of L. auratum, some ofwhich go on till the end of October, the Tiger is thelatest flowering of our Lilies, being in full bloom inSeptember. Its bold, turn-cap form is so well knownthat it can want no description, except to draw atten-tion to its remarkable colour, a soft salmon-orange,that can be matched by but few other flowers, nearestperhaps by some of the Cape bulbs, such as Homeriacollina, and one of the Ixias. The black spots anddark stems and deep-brown, rust-coloured antherscombine to make a grand garden flower. It is about the only Lily that we have in a gooddouble form, for though there is a so-called doubleL. candidum, it is a wretched, misshapen thing, notworth
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