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each and a pink one on the inside. This is one of 

 the most desirable varieties. C. fimbriatum Milk- 

 and-wine Lily is much like C. Kirkii in habit and 

 appearance, but smaller, the flowers being but three 

 or four inches in diameter, the foliage more erect 

 and sword-like. 



C. pedunculatum grows to a magnificent size, fine 

 specimens averaging six feet in height and width. 

 Its flowers, of pure white with purple anthers, are 

 formed in umbels of thirty or more; the petals are 

 narrow and the flowers exquisitely fragrant. It has 

 a queer stump-like bulb which grows to an immense 

 size, and is an evergreen, producing its flowers at in- 

 tervals through the year like C. Americana, which 

 has also pure white, fragrant flowers, the petals long 

 and narrow. The latter, when in bloom, throws up 

 one immense spike in the centre of the foliage, giving 

 the plant the appearance of a great rounded bouquet. 

 It is a native of the Florida swamps, and should be 

 grown in muck with considerable moisture, blooming 

 best when pot-bound. C. grandolia, or augustum, is 

 the finest of all the Crinums: one grown in Florida 

 "with leaves six feet long and correspondingly wide, 

 with a crown of bloom the size of a bushel measure." 

 Its umbels of flowers, thirty or more in number, with 

 broad petals eight inches long, make a magnificent 

 display. The buds are a purplish-red, the flowers, 

 when open, a blood red outside and a delicate, satiny 

 flush inside. The bulbs grow to an immense size. 



