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Lemoinei.—Fine, good size flowers, closely set on 
the spike, which is about one foot long; upper petals of a 
' creamy white color, tinted salmon-red, the lower ones 
spotted with deep purplish-crimson, bordered with bright 
yellow and salmony red. 
Marie Lemoine.—Long spike of fine well-ex- 
panded flowers; upper divisions of a pale creamy color, 
flushed with salmon-lilac, the lower divisions spotted 
purplish-violet, and bordered deep yellow. 
Masque de Fer.—F lowers very open, medium 
size ; bronze-red, the two lower lateral divisions entirely 
velvety black, with a yellow arrow in the center of the 
spot; plant dwarf. 
Obelisk. — Flowers large, violet; lower petals 
blotched brown, spotted with sulphur. 
Rochambeau.—F lowers large, salmon, lower petals 
dark salmon ; blotched purple. 
Stanley.—Red ; lower petals dark yellow, blotched 
with blood-red. 
Talma.—Pale lilac; lower divisions violet-brown. 
Victor Hugo.—Flowers very large; rose colored, 
lower petals dark sulphur, blotched with vermillion. 
We cannot dismiss this class without saying that 
for display, or for decorative purposes, they do not com- 
pare favorably with the Gandavensis section. 
The Max Leichtlin Hybrids.—The surprise cre- 
ated by the introduction of the Lemoine Hybrids had 
no sooner died away, than another class of equal mag- 
nitude was announced, of a cross between G Saundersii 
and a variety of G. Gandavensis, which was effected by 
the celebrated bulb grower, Max Leichtlin, of Baden 
Baden, Germany. ‘These hybrids are remarkable in 
many respects, and in all respects they are superior to 
either parent. For size and shape of flowers they have 
no equals in the various classes; some of the individual 
flowers are immense, fully five inches across; the spikes 
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