Wood Lily

Wood Lily (Trillium) - Perennials of low growth, which inhabit the woods of N. America. The finest is T. grandiflorum (White Wood Lily), one of the most beautiful hardy plants, 6 to 12 inches high, with on each stem a lovely white three-petalled flower, fairer than the white Lily, and almost as large. It is a free-growing plant of goodly size in a shady peaty border in open air; but in a sunny or exposed position its large soft green leaves do not develop. Depressed shady nooks in the rock garden or the hardy fernery suit it admirably. In the rosy variety the rosy hue is most pronounced in the young stage, and the leaf-stalks and the foliage are of a more bronzy shade of green. Other distinct varieties are maximum, with stems very stout and twice the usual height, while the flowers are 4 to 6 inches across; and palustris, a form specially adapted for wet ground, and nearly equal in vigour to that just described. Thus is the kind found by far the best in shade. Its rivale is a dwarf kind, well spoken of for the rock garden, but I have not seen it.

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