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NOTES ON LILIES 



L. Prt>v?rt7i'««?>i (California), from a good-sized cultivated specimen; the small figures 

 sliow entire and jointed scales and sections of the variably-shajied scales, &c. ; colour, 

 white or yellowish, rarely suffused with jiink. 



Ji. Columbianum. — Mr. Baker describes tlie bulb as "ovoid, peren- 

 nial, small, white, acute, with lance-shaped scales/' and also adds 

 that the plant " scarcely differs from Canadense, var. ParviJJorum, 

 except in the bulb not being rhizomatous." I have seen this pretty 

 little variety in flower, and consider it a dwarf, small-flowered variety 

 of Humholdtii, analogous to, and, so far as above ground development 

 goes, not unlike the small-flowered forms of Canadense, Canadense 

 Parviflorum. and Farvum,* but, as Mr. Baker so well points out, easily 

 recognizable by examining the bulb-growth. 



L. Thimholdfii. — A very stately Lily, attaining a height of 8 to 

 10 feet even when grown in pots. Mr. Baker describes the bulbs as 

 being " large, 2 to 4 inches in diameter,t oblique, perennial, not 

 rhizomatous; scales ovate, lanceolate, acute, 2 to S inches long.'' I have 

 seen an importation of several hundreds of fine bulbs of this plant, all 

 singularly alike in form, being ovoid, globose, the pointed scales all 

 curving and facing one way, while the thick roots pointed in the 

 opposite direction. The typical Hnniholdtil generally has white scaled 

 bulbs, but specimens sent by the New Plant and Bulb Company from 

 Colchester were yellowish, tinged with pink or purple. Examj)les of 



* (,)uite unlike these Lilies when in flower, but in gi'owth not unlike Supcrbum and 

 Caiiddouc. ' 



+ We have imported bulbs 6 or 7 inches in diametei', and 4 or 5 inches vertically, 

 Mei^hin;; 1 lb. each. 



