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dently no person has seen such capsules, for all persons who have 

 discussed the lilies of the Orient, and some of these have travelled 

 rather extensively in those lands, repeatedly state that the cap- 

 sules of the tiger lily were to them unknown. 



Fig. I. When there is proper cross-pollination with certain other types of 

 lilies, tiger lilies will produce such capsules as are shown above. This opportunity 

 almost never occurs as the plants are grown in gardens. When the flowers are 

 self-pollinated, or when pollination is from flower to flower on difl^erent tiger 

 lilies, capsules do not even start to develop. But sister flowers properly cross- 

 pollinated yield large capsules. The tiger lilies have not lost the ability to bear 

 fruit and seeds because of vegetative propagation. The capsules here shown are 

 from pollen of Z,. sutchuenense, and were obtained in 1923 at the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



THE TIGER LILY IS HIGHLY FRUITFUL IN CROSSES WITH CERTAIN 



OTHER KINDS OF LILIES 



Except for the plants of the florc-plcno type, which have 

 aborted pistils, all plants of tiger lilies are highly fruitful in 

 crosses with certain rather closely related species. At the New 



