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others consider Z. longiflorum and L. auratum to be the 

 parents (see ' Flor. Mag.,' 1874, t. 105, and ' Bot. Mag./ 1874, t. 

 6058). 



The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder (see < Gard. Chron.,' 1873, P- 

 575), in his address to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 Feb. 7th, 1872, remarks: "About thirty years ago, on the 

 introduction of the Japan Lily, just then discovered by Dr 

 Van Siebold, I commenced hybridising it with other species. 

 My first experiment was the crossing the red variety (L. land- 

 folium rubrwri) with the Tiger Lily (L. tigrinum). From this 

 cross were produced seedlings of different shades, from delicate 

 rose to dark crimsom. When my first Japan Lily, the Lilium 

 lancifolium speciosum, was coming into bloom in 1837, I pro- 

 cured from an adjacent garden pollen from the common Tiger 

 Lily, and preserved it for several days in my vest-pocket. It 

 was then used in impregnating the Japan Lily, and from this 

 cross came the first seedlings of this plant. During the last 

 thirty years I have crossed the Japan Lily with various other 

 species of the Lily tribe, and have produced some fine varieties, 

 as have my friends Mr Parkman and Mr Honey, from whom 

 we hope to hear in the course of our lectures in regard to their 

 interesting and successful experiments in hybridising these and 

 other plants. Among the most remarkable of my experiments 

 has been the crossing of L. lancifolium rubrum with Gloriosa 

 superba, the seedlings from this hybrid being now in growth. 

 I have also crosses of different species of the Lily genus, which 

 have produced singular variations, one of which is a flower 

 with two rows of petals." 



The cross alluded to above between the climbing Lily-like 

 Gloriosa and L. lancifolium is highly interesting, and we hope 

 our American friends will let us have full particulars of the 

 seedlings. 



Tulipa (Tulips). The Tulip is one of the earliest of all 

 " florists' flowers," and Parkinson figures several varieties which 

 were popular in London gardens in 1629; while at a later 

 period " Tulipomania " spread throughout Holland and Bel- 

 gium, and other countries of Europe, and the prices realised 

 for bulbs of notable new varieties frequently exceeded that now 

 paid for the rarest of tropical Orchids. There are numerous 

 species, mostly natives of Europe, the florists' varieties having 

 originated from T. Gesneriana (striped), introduced from the 

 Levant in 1577, and T. suaveolens, a red-and-yellow sweet- 

 scented S. European species, first cultivated in English gar- 

 dens about 1603. The varieties which have originated from 

 the last-named plant are less gorgeous in colouring than the 



