TRITELEIA UNIFLORA. 



however, enter into any competition with those of T. grandiflorum, 

 though they have their value, as coming a month earlier. 



T. pictum=T. undulatum. 



T. pusillum is the Benjamin of the lot, so minute as not to exceed 

 a couple of inches ; a treasure for the daintiest of places, which it will 

 rejoice with snow-born thimbles in the Spring. 



T. recurvation and T. sessile stand quite close together. They have 

 both large and very handsome foliage marbled with brown and green, 

 appearing in the dawn of the year, before the others are waking. Close 

 and stemless on these, stand up large flowers with the upstanding 

 petals rather narrow, and never opening widely out. In the types 

 these flowers are of varying tones of blackish brown, by no means 

 attractive, but the form T. sess. californicum (sometimes sent out as 

 T. giganteum) is very handsome, for the stature is taller, and the 

 outline bolder, and the brave big half -opening pointed-petalled blooms 

 are of clear creamy white (at least hi the garden-form known as Snow 

 Queen), making a fine effect as they rise up from their noble marbled 

 glossy leaves in March when all the other Wood-lilies are still abed. 

 There is yet another variety, of less merit, called T. sess. Wrayi, with 

 greenish blooms. The type is usually sent out instead of this form, 

 which is also sometimes called T. discolor. 



T. stylosum is a plant of 10 inches, with most lovely soft-rosy flowers 

 in April or May. 



T. undulatum, however, is, after T. grandiflorum, the royalty of the 

 race at present, and unquestionable sovereign of the smaller species. 

 It is the plant usually offered under the names of T. pictum or T. 

 erythrocarpum, and well repays the choicest of culture in the choicest 

 bed of gritty cool rich peat in shade. Here, if kept in mind of the 

 cold damp places it affects in American woods, it will send up, in 

 spring, dainty stems of 4 inches or more, unfolding a refulgent largo 

 wavy flower of purest white, swinging gracefully above the leaves, 

 and stained inside with stripes and blurs of rich crimson at the base 

 of the virginal petals. 



Triteleia uniflora is to be found in all bulb-lists; but there 

 is nothing lovelier in spring than wide masses, in a sunny place, of its 

 countless narrow leaves of lush and flopping texture and bright soft 

 green, from which rise the innumerable bare stems of 4 or 6 inches or 

 more, each carrying a single ample erect flower, curiously suggesting 

 tobacco blossom, of a delicate milky-white, that after the fashion of 

 milk often goes delicately and palely blue, but smells more sweet 

 than any milk that ever came from any cow on earth. It is a plant 

 of Argentina, but absolutely hardy and easy to establish on warm open 



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