THE TIGRIDIA AND SOME 

 INTERESTING HYBRIDS 



NEW CHARMS IN FAR-AWAY FLOWERS 



BOUT a quarter of a century ago I com- 

 menced cultivating and crossing all the 

 Tigridias, or Tiger Flowers, that were then 

 offered by any seedsman or nurseryman any- 

 where in the world. 



I also secured all the species of the allied genus 

 Ferraria that I could obtain and cultivated them 

 for the purpose of crossing them with the tiger 

 flowers. The Tigridias are natives of subtropical 

 and tropical America, ranging from Mexico to 

 Peru and Chile. The Ferrarias are from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and are represented by 

 a number of species. 



Both tribes belong to the Iris family, and the 

 two forms are so closely related that by some 

 botanists they are regarded as properly falling 

 within the same genus. 



My own experiments, which show the ready 

 hybridization of the various Tigridias and Ferra- 



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