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stout: lilium tigrinum 



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tiger lilies. That he obtained fruit when he removed bulbils 

 was merely a coincidence. Had he enclosed the flowers of such 

 plants in paper bags and prevented all pollinations except 

 selfings his plants would have been fruitless. 



It is really surprising that results such as Mr. Hanson reported 

 have not been observed rather frequently. While the species 

 named above which readily cross with the tiger lily are rarely 



Fig. 4. Flower of a hybrid lily having the tiger lily as its seed parent and 

 L. sutchuenense as its pollen parent. The plant does not bear bulblets on the stem 

 and the color of the flower and the spotting are slightly different from the seed 

 parent. 



seen in gardens, it is to be expected that they may be grown 

 along with Lilium tigrinum in the gardens of fanciers of lilies and 

 in nurseries concerned with producing lily bulbs for the trade. 

 Especially may this be expected to occur in the Orient. 



Evidently at least one such hybrid has appeared. In an 

 English garden magazine The Florist for 1873, the flower of a 

 lily was illustrated in color, and described as Lilium tigrinum 

 variety Lishmanni. It difi^ered from the tiger lilies in having no 



