1926] 



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In tlic pi>lliiiations tluis tar nuulc ar the New ^'mk Botanical 

 Garden, capsules have not even startcii to tonii on tiger lilies 

 to cross-pollinati»)n with the species tiuratum^ cnnadcusc^ ctvi- 

 (iiduni, chakedonicHui^ many varieties of tiavuricum^ Hcuryiy 

 Humholtitii, Korz/ii, speciosnm, SKpcrbin)! and nmhcllatKm. 



OIHER RECORDS OF CAPSULES PRODUCED BY PLANTS OF 



LILIUM TIGRINUM 



The cross L. t'lgr'uiiim X A. Maxiunnviczii has also been 

 successfully made hy Miss Isabel Preston (1924, 1925 and 1926). 



Imc. 3. I.usty seedlings ni.i\ 1h- li.ul hom ilu- Inhriil sccils ohtiiiiKHl on tiger 

 lilies. Those here shown have /,. Leichtlhiii ;is the ixillcn i>;ii(ni. 



Her first seed to this cross was secured in i<>2i hut this was not 

 reported in print or knt)wn to the writer until after his publi- 

 cations ot 1922. Miss Preston illustrates a fiower of this Inbrid, 

 which is evidently similar to the one here shown in ik;. 4. 



Miss Preston also reports havinu; obtained seeds to the cross 

 /.. ligriiimn X L. warlcyoise {I.. W'tlhiwttiac) and she shows a 

 photograph of the hybrid in flower. This cross has repeatedly 

 failed at the New York Botaiucal (Jardeii. 



