Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . rom the water, clumps of auratuin, washing-tonianum, Humboldti, giganteunij and all our finestspecies, would readily grow. If Lilies were planted in such a place, one kind ata time in fair quantity, we should be better able toappreciate their beauty and their dignity than whenthey are crowded among numbers of other flowersin the garden borders. The value of rather close shelter of tree and bushcan scarcely be overrated, for the outlying branche
Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . rom the water, clumps of auratuin, washing-tonianum, Humboldti, giganteunij and all our finestspecies, would readily grow. If Lilies were planted in such a place, one kind ata time in fair quantity, we should be better able toappreciate their beauty and their dignity than whenthey are crowded among numbers of other flowersin the garden borders. The value of rather close shelter of tree and bushcan scarcely be overrated, for the outlying branchesof the near bushes protect young Lily growths fromthe late frosts that are so harmful, and the encirchngtrees, not near enough to rob at the root or overhangat the top, but so near as to afford passing shade andto stop all violence of wind, give just the protectionthat suits them best. It is a great advantage to have the Lilies in so wellsheltered a place that they need not be staked, forstaking deprives the plant of one of its beautiful ways,that of swaying to the movement of the air. It wouldscarcely be believed by any one who had not watched. LILIUM GIGANTEUM IN WOODLAND.
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