NEW FLOWERS.
It is the season when the garden catalogues are in spate ; and they are as pleasant to study as the advertisements of country houses, even if we have no intention whatever of buying. One of them (Sutton's) picks out delphiniums, lupines (sic), irises and lilies as the four most popular sorts of flower in which new varieties hold a predominant place. Everyone in these days grows the first three in a variety of colours ; but perhaps most small gardeners have not appreciated the possibilities of the lily, numerous in species as well as varieties. Almost every cottage gardener is proud of his Madonna lilies (lilium candidata); but how seldom in small gardens you see any of the score or more of sorts that are as easily grown. Auratum in its many varieties, Martagon or Turk's Cap, the big Tiger Lily and the rosy Lancifolium. And many of these lilies flower well into August, when the
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