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hybrids are listed in addition, one of them being 

 mentioned as having received a medal from the 

 California State Floral Society. 



(7) New Callas. These included the varie- 

 gated Little Gem, the Snow Flake, the Giant 

 Calla, and the Golden variegated Richardia alba 

 maculata, it being recorded of the first named 

 that it was selected from eighteen thousand 

 seedlings, and of the last named that it was the 

 single selection among hundreds of thousands of 

 bulbs of the spotted-leaved Calla that had been 

 raised for the trade from seed on my grounds. 



(8) Hybrid Lilies. Only two specified va- 

 rieties are offered under individual numbers, one 

 being the large-flowering Lilium pardalinum, 

 afterward known as Fragrance, and the other a 

 dwarf form growing only ten inches high and 

 producing from twenty to forty blossoms on 

 each of the short stalks which afterward bore 

 the name of Glow. But the names of forty-two 

 species and varieties were given as only a partial 

 list of the lilies that had been combined in the 

 hybrid seedlings which even at that time made 

 up an extraordinary colony in the experiment 

 garden. 



It was stated that some of the older hybrids 

 and seedlings were represented by as many as 

 a thousand bulbs each ; that half a million kinds 



