150 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
never opening wider than an ordinary tulip blossom. The 
leaves are small, suggesting the hardy water-lily in shape. 
This hybrid is difficult to propagate in view of the seareity of 
young tubers and partial sterility of seed pods. 
Description—F lowers nocturnal, 4 inches across or when 
forcibly expanded 6-7 inches, rosolane purple, lighter towards 
the base; stamens dark rosolane purple, much lighter at the 
base; leaves 8-9 inches across, orbicular, sparsely minutely 
denticulate, suggesting the hardy lily in shape; lobes overlap- 
ping, dark reddish brown, summit of the petiole dark green 
radiating with the venation ; seed pod small, almost sterile. 
<x NYMPHAEA “EMILY GRANT HUTCHINGS” PRING 
A light-flowered form of N. ‘‘C. E. Hutchings,’’ which sug- 
gests N. tulipifera as a parent. The flowers are amaranth 
pink, opening full with age. The leaves are small and of a 
brownish green color. 
JELLY FROM WILD FRUITS 
In nearly every community there go to waste each year 
quantities of wild fruit suitable for jelly making, that might 
be had for the asking. Wild apples, wild plums, wild cher- 
ries, japanese quinces, hawthorns, wild grapes, cornelian 
cherries, barberries, and elderberries all make good jelly. 
Some of these can be used alone, while some are best when 
combined with other fruits. A mixture of wild apples and 
hawthorns, with a sprinkling of wild grapes, wild plums 
and elderberries gives a beautiful rose-purple jelly of excel- 
lent flavor. 
The cultivated apple has been naturalized in many parts 
of the country, particularly in New England and New York, 
where it is commonly found along roadsides and country 
lanes. Landowners will usually give permission to piek the 
fruit, and though usually gnarled and sour, it makes excel- 
lent jelly. Pyrus ioensis and Pyrus coronaria, our native 
American apples, are common around St. Louis. Their small, 
yellow fruit is sour and somewhat astringent, yet it makes 
delicious jelly, particularly when used in combination with 
the large-fruited hawthorns. 
