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scarcely ten among a thousand plants reverting to the typical purple 
Martagon Lily; out of the mingling of ZL. Martagon album with 
LL. Hansoni not a single white martagon occurred. All plants (several 
hundreds) that showed no influence of the pollen-parent (1. Hansoni) 
reverted to the typical purple Martagon Lily. Those that showed the 
influence of L. Hansoni developed into stately, tall-growing lilies with 
broad, dark green foliage in whorls and pyramidal spikes, composed of 
very numerous flowers. The ground colour of the flowers of these 
hybrids is a more or less pronounced pale buff-brown, either flushed with 
crimson or with deep orange, and with purple spots. The individual 
size of the flowers much exceeds that of either parent. JI named this 
strain L. Mar-Han (fig. 118), and I have already distributed two or three 
distinct varieties of it, while others are still in course of propagation. 
As far as I know, the cross effected by Mr. Powell of Southborough 
between L. Martagon dalmaticum and L. Hansoni either produced 
true hybrids or gave dalmaticum pure. Other crosses which gave good 
results were effected between L. pardalinum and L. Parryi and also 
between LZ. pardalinum and Humboldtii. These, however, have lately 
been raised also in America. 
BRuNSVIGIA JOSEPHIN#.—This remarkable plant freely flowers with 
me, and I several times fertilised it with pollen of Amaryllis Belladonna. 
I have now large bulbs, four to six inches across, of these hybrids, which 
so far have not yet flowered, although some are over ten years old. It is 
very remarkable that the plants, though raised from seed of the Bruns- 
vigia, show no influence of the mother parent, the bulb and foliage being 
that of an Amaryllis Belladonna. 
CotcHicum.—Some very interesting plants came out of a cross 
between C. Sibthorpii and the double white-flowered form of C. 
autumnale. The seedlings either produced a large, broad-petaled form 
of C. Sibthorpii or gave perfectly double-flowered C. Szbthorpii, the 
flowers being composed of hundreds of narrow petals of a lilac-red, 
faintly chequered with white. These double flowers are perfectly sterile, 
whereas in the double white-flowered C. autwmnale one occasionally 
finds a good pistil with potent pollen. 
EreMuRUS.—Some very strong-growing hardy hybrids, capable of 
resisting severe late spring frosts, which will kill or hopelessly damage 
flower-spikes and foliage of H. robustus and E. limalaicus, have been raised 
in my nursery by crossing HL. himalaicus with early flowered forms of 
E. robustus, the result giving a fair percentage of immensely strong- 
growing plants, throwing spikes seven to eight feet in height, with 
flowers of a pale rose colour. These hybrids flower a little later than 
E. himalaicus and before HE, robustus is out. Though not so showy as 
a finely developed specimen of H. robustus, the hybrid, which I named 
E. him-rob, has the particular advantage of being capable of safely 
escaping the often deadly injurious effects of late spring frosts. A 
very interesting and delicately beautiful plant is H. T'ubergeni, which 
was produced by crossing H. himalaicus with pollen from an early 
flowered form of EH. Bungei. In this plant the foliage has the deep 
green colour of that of H. Bungei, but is almost as broad as that of 
E. himalaicus, while the spikes and individual flowers most resemble 
