. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. lilies of July and. August. The fiuest of these is, perhaps, lAUwm auratum. It is a grand lily with white flowers, spotted with maroon and a gold band through the centre of each petal. It is sometimes a little diffi- cult to grcnr. L. Hatemannice is also a beautiful summer lily from Japan, with flowers
. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. lilies of July and. August. The fiuest of these is, perhaps, lAUwm auratum. It is a grand lily with white flowers, spotted with maroon and a gold band through the centre of each petal. It is sometimes a little diffi- cult to grcnr. L. Hatemannice is also a beautiful summer lily from Japan, with flowers of a clear orange-apri cot color, unspotted. L. speciosian is another favorite Japanese lily of easy growth and general adapta- bility. There is a beautiful white lilium speciosum. form and also a white tinged and spotted with rose. One of the best native species is Lilium svperhum, Turk's- cap lily, with flowers of a bright orange, marked with purple spots and beautifully recurved. This kind is very hardy and tenacious of life, and is particularly efEecti^"e and suc- cessful planted among rhododen- drons and other similar shrubs. The tiger lily, L. tigrinum, is veiy showy and stays in bloom a long time duinng sunnner. There is a grand variety of this tiger lily (tigrinmn splendens) that has tall stems and fiery scarlet flowers. Lilium Oanadense is a showy summer blooming species, with nodding yellow or orange flowers spotted with brown. There ia also a deep-red variety of Ccmadense. Lilium pai'dalinmn, leopard lily, is a summer-. TURK'S-CAP LILY. (ULIUM 8UPERBUM.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Parsons, Samuel, 1844-1923. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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