English Lilies.
A Garden Corner
QNLY TWO SPECIES of lilycan be said to be native or naturalised in England, and both are interesting. In the woods of Surrey is to be found the Martagon lily, with its dull purple flowers on three-foot stalks. The flowers are small, very much reflexed in the true Turk’s cap style, and strong bulbs will produce heads of twenty and more. This is a very distinct lily, hardy enough to grow anywhere and, with its white form, much used by hybridists to develop hardiness and shape in crossing with other species. The other Home lily is there called the May lily, because of its time of flowering. This is found '•niy in the copses of Yorkshire and Lancashire It does not develop a bulb, having swollen stems like lily of the valley, from which arise short, wiry stems with two leaves. The stem ends in a dense spray of minute white-, fragrant flowers, which have all the appearance of some orchids This so-called lily is also found in Europe and America. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20649, 25 June 1935, Page 6
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