CHAPTER XII 



SPECIES, VARIETIES AND HYBRIDS 



THIS list is not absolutely complete; but it 

 includes most, if not all, of the important sub- 

 jects. Nor does it pretend to be absolutely cor- 

 rect in either a botanical or a horticultural 

 sense. When botanists do not altogether agree 

 on species, no mere layman can straighten out 

 the matter of nomenclature with any degree of 

 definiteness or finality. As for the vendors of 

 lilies, they also differ among themselves in both 

 botanical and horticultural names. After all, it 

 matters very little to the plain, everyday flower- 

 lover whether the exquisitely beautiful Kram- 

 er's lily is L. japonicum, as the Kew authori- 

 ties maintain, or L. Krameri, as others quite as 

 stoutly opine, and Batemann's lily displays a 

 no less glowing apricot hue in the garden as 

 L. elegans Batemanniae than as plainer L. 

 Batemanniae. In this confused state of things, 

 no doubt some actual duplication of names oc- 

 curs. 



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