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L. tigrinum Jl. pi. — Very similar to 

 the common tiger lily, but the flowers 

 are double and more enduring than the 

 single form. 



L. superhum. — The common wild lily 

 of our Northern States, but deserves a 

 place in every garden on account of its 

 stately growth and showy flowers. 



L. Philadelphicum. — Another native 

 species, seldom cultivated in this country, 

 but highly valued abroad Flowers bell- 

 shaped and of a reddish orange. A low 

 growing species, seldom more than two 

 feet high. 



L. nigrum. — A black lily of Kamt- 

 schatka. This is no doubt closely allied 

 to our Superb lily, but the flowers are 

 of a very dark purple color. — A. S. 

 Fuller, in Orchard and Garden. 



THE FLORIST'S TULIP. 

 The tulip is perhaps one of the most 

 precious of flowers in the estimation of 

 the florist, because of the extraordinary 

 transformations through which it passes, 

 as well as on account of its possession of 

 other qualities of a not less fascinating 

 character. One singular peculiarity of 

 the Tulip is the extraordinary change 

 which takes place when the seedling 

 breeder " breaks," or, in other words, 

 assumes its proper and permanent char- 

 acter. That a flower which, on its first 

 blooming, from the seed, and probably 

 for a series of years afterward, should 

 (to take the case of a fine Bybloemen) 

 present but one dull slate color with a 

 circle of white at the base ; that this 

 flower, so unattractive in its appearance, 

 should all at once, without any apparent 

 cause, completely alter its nature ; that 

 the dull slate color should disappear 

 entirely, giving place to a delicate 

 feathering of rich pui-ple or violet, while 

 the pure white, which was confined to 

 a narrow circle at the base, should spread 

 all over and become the ground color of 

 the petal ; and that the latter and true 

 character should be maintained during 



the whole of the after existence of the 

 plant, is surely so remarkable a fact in 

 vegetable physiology as to deserve at the 

 hands of the scientific and practical 

 botanist the closest investigation. 



Many persons, though well acquaint- 

 ed with flowers, are unaware of the 

 changes through which the seedling 

 Tulip passes. It is four or five years 

 before it flowers, then it takes on the 

 self-colored or breeder form ; but in the 

 breeder state it is easy to class it with 

 the Bizarres, Roses or Byblcemens, ac- 

 cording as it may belong to either of 

 these three divisions. Then, at the ex- 

 piration of sometin\es one or two years 

 up to six or seven yeai*s, it breaks into 

 its true character, and becomes what is 

 termed "rectified." "Why the Tulip 

 should be an exception to the universal 

 law observed in seedling flowers, and 

 have an almost exceptionally inter- 

 mediate state, passeth knowledge. The 

 practical florist asks of the botanist the 

 why and wherefore of this, and no reply 

 is forthcoming. 



It is said that in the whole range 

 and history of plants there is no ana- 

 logy to this phenomenon. — Vick't Magoc- 

 zine. 



RELATION OF STOCK TO SCION. 



My attention to this matter of what 

 may be called "graft crossing," was 

 awakened a great many years ago, when 

 I was a boy, about the year 1 838. I 

 was then extremely fond of the Sops-of- 

 Wine Apple, known also as Bell's Early. 

 My grandfather had a large orchard, 

 but no Sops-of- Wines, and at my urgent 

 request he grafted scions of that variety 

 into branches on half a dozen trees for 

 my benefit. I watched these scions 

 anxiously for fruit, and in three or four 

 years they all bore. But I was greatly 

 disappointed to find that this fruit, 

 though externally appearing to be Sops- 

 of-Wine, was hard, green-fleshed, and 

 miserable to eat. There was but one 



