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Mention is made by Miss Preston of seedlings of Lilium 

 speciosum X L. tigriniim produced at the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, which, however, never grew to flowering size. 



In a report of certain hybridizations made about twenty years 

 ago in Australia (Kerslake, 1906) there is the mere statement 

 that the cross "L. tigrinitm X L. elegans Wallacei resulted in 

 every flower operated upon producing huge pods of seed." This 

 cross is one of those which has succeeded at the New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



In his beautifully illustrated monograph on the genus Lilium^ 

 Elwes (1880) makes the following statement in reference to 

 Lilium t i gr in 117)1 : — 



Everywhere in China and Japan it is cultivated and the bulbs are eaten by the 

 natives: but I never saw the capsules and seeds though they are figured by Nees von 

 Esenbeck, 'Genera Plantarum,' vol. II. Mr. Hanson, of New York, informs me 

 that he has been successful in raising many seedlings from this plant, some of which 

 diflPered remarkably from the parent, both in the form and color of the leaves and 

 flowers: but, owing to a fire which destroyed the whole of these seedlings, I am 

 unable to describe them more particularly. 



Mr. Hanson says that to induce the plant to seed, all the bulblets must be 

 removed, and that the seeds, if sown at once in a frame, germinate quickly and 

 produce flowering plants in three or four years. 



It may be said that the capsules figured by Nees von Esen- 

 beck and labelled as those of '' Lilii tigritii" are included in a 

 plate with flowers, flower parts, and a bulb of Lilium Martagon 

 to illustrate the various parts of a typical lily. The capsules are 

 longer and of a somewhat dift^erent shape than those the writer 

 here illustrates. It is perhaps doubtful that the capsules drawn 

 for the plate in Genera Plantarum came from a plant of Lilium 

 tigrinum. 



The statements of Elwes, quoted above, make it clear that 

 Mr. Hanson obtained seed from plants of the tiger lily and grew 

 the seedlings. But Mr. Hanson is in error in considering that 

 the removal of bulblets axillary to the leaves led to the produc- 

 tion of the seed he obtained. Evidently he was merely reflecting 

 a rather popular view which has survived even to the present 

 time. Mr. Hanson had, it is stated by Elwes, "one ot the finest 

 collections of lilies in the world." Without a doubt he grew 

 plants of Lilium tigriuion by the side of such species as L. 

 Maximowiczii ami the insects made the cross-pollinations which 

 were responsible for the capsules which he obtained from his 



