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GARDEN LILIES. CHAPTER II. 49 



NEW VARIETIES OF PICOTEE. 



WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 



^IJl^OE tlie opportunity of figuring tlie two novelties represented in our plate, 

 ^Ll;^ we are indebted to Mr, Turner, of Slough, by wliom tbey were raised, 



fand by whom splendid examples were exhibited last season, which secured 

 for them the highest awards. Oar illustration by no means flatters them, 

 as the blooms when sketched were rather past their best, but it gives a fair 

 notion of their character and general excellence. 



Fig. 1 represents Mrs. Hornbt, a light-edged red variety, of large size, and 

 the finest in its class ; it is a charming flower, on account of its purity and even 

 marking, as well as for its finely-shaped smooth petals, which, for the reason already 

 mentioned, are not so well shown in the drawing as they might have been. 

 Fig. 2 represents Mrs. Fordham, a large and well-marked flower of the medium- 

 edged bright rose type, also a grand and effective flower for general cultivation, 

 and the finest in its particular style, the flowers being large and full without con- 

 fusion. The admirers of this delicately-beautiful and fragrant flower will find 

 both these varieties to be grand acquisitions to their collections. — T. M. 



GARDEN LILIES.— Chapter II. 



*E resume the consideration of the Archelirion group at the point where 

 we were compelled to break off at p. 16, after describing L. tajrinum 

 and its varieties. 



2. LiLiUM SPECiosuM {Bot. Reg. t. 2000). — This very beautiful Lily, 

 which is often erroneously called L. lancifolium in gardens, is distinguished from 

 L. tigrinum by the absence of bulbils in the leaf -axils ; and from L. anratum by 

 its broader lanceolate leaves and its more completely reflexed flowers. It grows 

 from 1^ ft. to 3 ft. high, or more, with smooth green erect stems, which are 

 furnished with bright green shortly-stalked leaves, 6 in. to 9 in. long, of an ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate form, glossy on the upper surface, and showing from 7 to 

 9 ribs or veins beneath ; the upper leaves assuming a more lanceolate figure. 

 The flowers, which are usually three to six, sometimes more numerous, form a 

 broad open raceme, attached by stalks which are erecto-patent, the lowest four 

 to five inches long ; they are from six to eight inches across, of a beautiful deep 

 rose-colour, with a well-defined white margin, the lower half being studded with 

 papillae of a rich ruby-red colour, and having a glabrous hollow running down 

 the keel towards the base, the perianth segments being broader than in L, 

 tigrinum^ more approaching to ovate, and not drawn out at the point. The 

 pollen is of a deep red hue. We have only seen this typical form in quantity 

 at the Knap Hill Nursery. 



This Lily, which was introduced in 1832 from Japan, flowers in this country 

 towards the end of July, or in August or September, and is well known and 

 much prized in gardens as an ornamental plant, being very extensively grown for 

 3bd series. — ^VI. D 



