Lilies

The golden-rayed lily of Japan, Lilium auratum, has been called the queen of lilies. It is regally tall and graceful, and its deliciously fragrant, waxy-white flowers have broad golden bands flecked with crimson running down the center of the petals. In some hybrids, the bands are crimson and broader than the type. The flowers are … Read more

In your garden, be it large or small, there is no reason why you may not enjoy the exquisite perfection of hardy lilies. Even in a garden filled to over-flowing with other flowers, lilies may be tucked in here and there to enhance the garden picture. And surprising as it may seem, lilies like just … Read more

In many parts of the United States, the lovely, fragrant auratum lily, the gold-band lily of Japan, usually lasts only one year. Why? The experts claim that this is one of the two finest hardy garden lilies, and the other is Lilium speciosum rubrum. Other lilies are touchy, such as: Lilium speciosum album Lilium martagon … Read more

Can one date beauty or say of plants just when they are ready to take their rightful place in the garden world? I believe we can in the case of lilies. These lovely, hardy, easy-to-grow plants have come a long way from the species collected in the wild. They have had a difficult transition period. … Read more

If there is any hardy flower that has gained popularity more rapidly during recent years than the lily, we do not know what it is. The old idea that they are challenging to grow is fast fading out, and rightly so! Many modern lilies are much easier to grow than their predecessors. This, plus better … Read more

The Madonna lily first came to the attention of the man in the “dawn of prehistory.” This was in the part of the world traditionally associated with the Garden of Eden. Whether hungry people discovered and cherished the plant for the food value of the bulb or whether gardeners — their acre gardeners then — … Read more

The discovery of the Regal Lily (Lilium regale) in 1903 and its introduction into cultivation a year later stimulated great interest in lilies. Its discoverer, E. H. Wilson, wrote and talked about it. Stocks of bulbs were produced rapidly from seeds, and as it performed well in gardens, it soon became a common garden plant. … Read more

The star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum, includes many species, none of which are native to this country. Hence, they are known to readers only in the cultivated state. The genus belongs to one of the largest and best-known groups of flowering plants – the lily family, numerous species of which are grown in the home, the … Read more

Our half-acre garden has seen many changes over the years we have worked it. When we moved out of the city, our thoughts were much the same as those of other new suburbanites – growing vegetables and letting my wife have her little flower garden near the house. At first, we attempted everything from radishes … Read more