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flower with pollen ; but if the pollen bloom is also to be used for seed, I 
cut from it the filaments of the anthers as long as I can, and then take 
one of these with a pair of pliers, and so dust the pollen on the pistil of 
the seed-bloom. In working blooms of polyanthus I split the lower side 
of the tube of the intended seed-bloom before the pollen is free, and then 
remove the anthers. Splitting the lower side leaves the perianth and 
tube as a protection from the sun for the pistil. 
Up to the present the blooms are all worked where the bulbs are 
growing out of doors, and none haye been covered or otherwise protected. 
Fic. 109.—AnotHER SEEDLING FROM ‘ M. J. BERKELEY.’ 
3,4 inches across; out of the same seed-pod as fig. 108, but quite distinct; white. 
. Some of the Leedsii and Barrii varieties are bad at seeding, while others 
set freely—‘ Barrii Siddington’ sets seed freely, while from ‘ Barrii Con- 
spicuus’ I have had only two pods of seed in twenty years: these were 
both twin flowers crossed with poeticus ornatus, also twin flowers, and 
both were lost through bursting unexpectedly. ‘ Maria Mag. de Graaff’ 
seeds freely, while from ‘ Minnie Hume’ it is hard to get any seed. 
HIPPEASTRUMS. 
One of my first attempts was with pollen from a beautifully coloured 
white heavily striped bloom of the old style, rather narrow in gape and 
