Lilies for English gardens. A guide for amateurs. Compiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters (1901) (14777435231)

Identifier: liliesforenglish00jeky (find matches)
Title: Lilies for English gardens. A guide for amateurs. Compiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
Subjects: Lilies
Publisher: (London) "Country life" (etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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LILIUM TESTACEUM IN THE GARDEN LANDSCAPE. WAYS OF GROWING LILIES 39 them unstaked, how variously and diversely gracefulare the natural movements of Lilies. If they are tiedup to stakes all this is necessarily lost, as is also thenaturally dignified and yet dainty poise of the wholeplant. Where the Lily groups have penetrated into truewoodland, a background of wild Bracken is the bestthat can be. As the Lily ground approaches thegarden, clumps of Solomons Seal would be admis-sible, and that good woodland plant of allied char-acter, Smilacina racemosa, and plenty of our best hardyFerns, Male Fern, Lady Fern, Dilated Shield Fern,and Osmunda, and some of the fine hardy AmericanFerns, among them also some of the Osmundas, withOnoclea and Adiantum pedatuni. Where the Lilies actually join the garden ground,no plant suits them so well as the bold-leaved Ftmkiagrandiflora, Liliunis longifolium-f Brownii, Krameri, andspeciosum are specially thankful for this association.The Funkia also enjoys p