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GARDEN LILIES. CHAPTER I. 



is recorded, produced on one stem. The flowers are, moreover, of a still bolder 

 character than in the var. Fortuiiei. The peculiarity of this plant consists in 

 the spotting, which is much bolder than in any other known variety, the spots 

 being fewer and larger, and inclined to become confluent into oblong blotches, 

 -while the ground-colour is of the rich orange or cinnabar-red peculiar to the 

 varieties of the Tiger Lily. This plant was, as we learn from M. Van Houtte, in- 

 troduced from China to the garden of M. Leitchlin about five or six years ago, and 



[Flower one-third natural size.] 



LiLIUM TIGRINUM SPLENDEKS. 



was by him communicated to M. "Van Houtte, by whom it was distributed. Our 

 woodcut figure represents a small plant, with a much less developed panicle than 

 would be produced by a vigorous specimen. 



L. (t.) Fortunei. — This fine variety was introduced by Mr. Fortune, in com- 

 pliment to whom it is named. It differs from the ordinary form in its greater 

 stature, in its larger pyramidal heads, and in its more conspicuously cobwebby 

 pubescence. The stems reach from 6 ft. to 7 ft. in height, and are stout in pro- 

 portion, the upper 2 ft. or upwards forming a broad pyramidal floral panicle, the 

 lower branches of which in vigorous specimens each bear as many as four flowers 

 in successive series. The flowers are proportionately larger than in the older 

 kind, which this altogether eclipses, though the colours are similar, namely, 

 bright cinnabar-red, freely spotted with blackish-purple. This variety was in- 

 troduced from the province of Chekiang, in China, about 1850. 



L. TIGRINUM FLOEE-PLENO (Flortst, 1871, 25, with fig.). — This is a remark- 

 ably handsome plant, having much the habit of the foregoing, since vigorous 

 plants produce a fine paniculate head of blossoms. It was imported from Japan 



