"In the autumn of 1938 a first planting of L. giganteum was made and the results are eagerly awaited. There will be other newcomers and always there will be the desire to widen experience and enrich still further this little corner of the world with treasures which nature in her wisdom and generosity, has distributed elsewhere and to hail and welcome, as they come to us, the rewards of the patient work of the hybridizers." Elsie Reford, "Lilies at Estevan Lodge, Grand-Métis, Province of Quebec, Canada", 1939