"Now we come to the time when there is a veritable festival of Lily enchantment and it would be a courageous judge indeed who would submit that in sheer perfection any one variety could lead all the rest. In weight of numbers, L. regale does outstrip the others - in the mean time - for they are in the thousands of blooms." Elsie Reford, "Lilies at Estevan Lodge, Grand-Métis, Province of Quebec, Canada", 1939