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Alice Wilson, very dwarf with clear lemon yellow 

 flowers ; alutaceum, one of the earliest and dwarfest, 

 with bright apricot-coloured flowers ; atrosanguineum, 

 deep red, moderately tall ; Beautiful Star, orange red ; 

 bicolor or pictum, rich yellow flamed with red ^flore plenum, 

 a dwarf form with deep red semi-double flowers ; Hors- 

 manni or hcematochroum, rich blackish crimson, one of the 

 finest of all ; biligulatum (lateritium), chestnut red ; mar- 

 moratum aureum or robustum, two feet high, deep yellow 

 flowers spotted with crimson early in June ; Orange 

 Queen, a fine flower of a clear bright orange ; Prince of 

 Orange, apricot yellow, very dwarf and early ; sanguineum, 

 light red ; Van Houttei, bright shining crimson and very 

 attractive j venustum, orange red, flowers produced late 

 in July and August ; and Wilsoni, apricot yellow, dotted 

 purple, also late flowering. 



Batfmanttue is a very distinct variety sometimes classed 

 as a species, but here as a variety. Nearly all the Lilies 

 with erect open flowers bloom early in the season, but 

 this exception is at its best in the first half of August. 

 It grows about a couple of feet high, and the flowers 

 are borne from four to six in a terminal umbel or cluster. 

 They are of an unspotted, glowing, apricot tint, from 

 three to four inches in diameter. It succeeds well in 

 ordinary soil and a full exposure. It is very liable to 

 lose its stem leaves during a cold and wet summer. 



Wallacei. A variety from Japan, is a peculiar Lily 

 bearing resemblance to L. elegans venustum, but differs 

 in its more drooping flowers, which are of a clear apricot 

 yellow. It is remarkable also for the way in which its 

 bulbs are divided into several crowns so that stems are 

 developed from each. These differences so marked have 

 induced some to rank it as a distinct species intermediate 

 between elegans and tigrinum jucundum, but at Kew it is 

 classed as a variety of L. elegans. It grows about one 

 and a half feet high like venustum, and is beautifully in 



