Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . NEW YORK:CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS, 153-157 FIFTH INTRODUCTION Lilies, comprising as they do, some of the moststately and beautiful of garden flowers, are not nearlyso much grown in gardens as their beauty may go through many a rather large place and notsee a Lily from one end to the other, and in spite of theenormous and ever-increasing interest in gardens andflowers of these days, a large proportion of the peoplewho are
Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . NEW YORK:CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS, 153-157 FIFTH INTRODUCTION Lilies, comprising as they do, some of the moststately and beautiful of garden flowers, are not nearlyso much grown in gardens as their beauty may go through many a rather large place and notsee a Lily from one end to the other, and in spite of theenormous and ever-increasing interest in gardens andflowers of these days, a large proportion of the peoplewho are taking a practical interest in horticulturehardly as yet know one Lily from another. The present writer and compiler, who has been aworking amateur for thirty years, has keenly felt thewant of a short, concise, illustrated handbook ; sucha book as will just tell amateurs in the plainest waywhat they are most likely to want to know aboutLilies. Such a book has therefore been prepared inthe form of the present volume, in which the informa-tion has been condensed and put as shortly as possiblefor greater simplicity and ease of reference. Early in
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