HYBRID LILIES 51 



The colour is a rich creamy white, becoming whiter 

 with age, and there is a trace of a band of a deeper 

 creamy tint in the centre of each petal, obtained pro- 

 bably from the yellow Henryi. The foliage shows 

 traces of that of L. Henryi, the pollen parent, and the 

 growth is similar to that of auratum. It is quite a beauti- 

 ful plant, but unfortunately it is rare, as it exists in but 

 few places besides Kew. 



L. Marhan is a similar hybrid to L. Dalhansoni, 

 obtained by crossing L. Martagon album with Z,. 

 Hansom. It has the main characters of Dalhansoni, but 

 flowers of a brighter colour, being a clear orange yellow 

 with red brown spots and streaks. It grows from four 

 to seven feet high, is vigorous, and, like Dalhansoni, is 

 suitable for pot culture. 



L. Parkmanni. This magnificent Lily is said to be a 

 hybrid raised in America between L. auratum and a deep 

 coloured variety of L. speciosum, the latter being the seed 

 parent. To describe it one has to imagine a flower of 

 the finest variety of auratum in form and size, with each 

 petal of a glowing crimson, broadly margined with white 

 and with a yellow band down the centre of each, remind- 

 ing one of the variety rubro - vittatum. The growth 

 is that of auratum macranthum (platyphyllum). Accord- 

 ing to the raiser, Mr Parkman, he first planted out the 

 seedling bulbs in 1869, which flowered a few years 

 later. There were fifty bulbs, and among these, when 

 they flowered, appeared this glorious plant. Of the 

 other seedlings, only one resembled more or less the 

 characters of the parents. 



It was in course of time sent to this country and was 

 grown and flowered and exhibited from the Knap Hill 

 Nursery by Mr Waterer. Unfortunately the plants 

 developed some disease and became thereby weakened 

 and eventually disappeared, and it is now doubtful if it 

 exists in cultivation ; but it remained with us long 



