leafless wands of its cousin, star-grass, or colic
root, wave above it, and the tall late meadow-rue and white angelica
fringe the background.

The Canada bell-lily needs the setting of meadow grasses to veil its
long, stiff stalks, while the Turk's-cap lily seems the most at home of
all in garden surroundings, but it only gains its greatest size in the
deep meadows, where, without being wet, there is a certain moisture
beneath the deep old turf, and this turf itself not only keeps out
frost, but moderates the sun's rays in their transit to the ground.

Two lilies there are that, escaping from gardens, in many places have
become half wild--the brick-red, black-spotted tiger lily with recurved
flowerets, after the shape of the Japanese _roseum_, _rubrum_, and
_album_, being also a native of Japan and China, and the tawny orange
day lily, that is found in masses about old cellars and waysides, with
its tubular flowers, held on leafless stems, springing from a matted
bed of leaves. This day lily (_hemerocallis fulva_) is sister to the
familiar and showy lemon lily of old gardens (_hemerocallis flava_). If
you have plenty of room by your wall, I should lodge a few good bunches
by it when you find some in a location where digging is possible. It is
a decorative flower, but hardly worthy of good garden soil. The same may
be said of the tiger lily, on account of the very inharmonious shade of
red it wears; yet if you have a half-wild nook, somewhere that a dozen
bulbs of it may be tucked in company with a bunch of the common tall
white phlox that flowers at the same time, you will have a bit of colour
that will care for itself.

The lemon lily should have a place in the hardy border well toward the
front row and be given enough room to spread into a comfortable circle
after the manner of the white plantain lily (_Funkia subcordata_). This
last lily, another of Japan's contributions to the hardy garden, blooms
from August until frost and unlike most of the lily tribe is pleased if
well-rotted manure is deeply dug into its resting-place.

As with humanity the high and lowly born are subject to the same
diseases, so is it with the lily tribe, and because you choose the
sturdiest and consequently least expensive species for your garden, do
not think that you may relax your vigilance.

There is a form of fungous mould that attacks the bulbs of lilies
without rhyme or reason and is the insidious tuberculosis of the race.
_Botr