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America, deep red, striped; Aurora, orange-salmon on white 

 ground; Lady Grisel Hamilton, lavender blue; Mrs. George 

 Higginson, Jun., azure-blue; Black Knight and Captivation, 

 magenta, self-colored; Othello, glossy maroon; Captain of the 

 Blues and Duke of Westminster, purple; Lady Roseberry, bronzy; 

 and Venus, salmon-buff and pink. 



Honorable Mention was given to Messrs. R. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co. for an exhibit of new lilies from China. 



Later in the season the Messrs. Farquhar invited the Committee 

 on Plants and Flowers to inspect their beds of new lilies from China 

 sent by collector Wilson. There is every reason to believe these 

 lilies are the same as collected by Wilson some years ago for Messrs. 

 James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, England. Robert Cameron had 

 with him at the inspection Dr. Wallace's Notes on Lilies, 2d Ed., 

 which had cuts of a lily supposedly the same, which, if so, is Lilium 

 Brovniii var. leucanthemum. Mr. Pettigrew of the Boston Parks 

 stated that he had seen a lily named L. myriGphyllum at IMessrs. 

 Veitch's which appeared to be the same plant. Later I wrote to 

 the Messrs. Veitch and received from them a communication of 

 which the following is an abstract: 



"This Chinese lily was exhibited by us as L. Broivnii var. leu- 

 canthemum and obtained a first class certificate from the Royal 

 Horticultural Society on August 29, 1905, and was figured in 'The 

 Garden' for April 28, 1906, page 224. 



" It was afterwards discovered that the form in question was not 

 Baker's L. Brownii var. leucanthemum, which is described in 

 'The Gardeners' Chronicle' August 18, 1894, page 180, as white 

 without crimson or purple markings on the outside of the perianth, 

 which characterises the other forms of L. Brownii, and the Kew 

 authorities referred our lily to L. myriophyllum." 



Messrs. Farquhar's lilies appear to be mostly of the L. myrio- 

 'phyllum variety, but they inform the committee that they have 

 found a number of pure white flowers among theirs, and these are 

 probably the L. Brownii var. Jeucanthemum of Baker. 



Messrs. Veitch go on to say: 



"X. myriophyllum was originally discovered by Delavay in 1888 

 and described as a new species by Franchet, ' Journal de Botanique,' 

 Vol. 6, p. 313. It was also figured in 'The Gardeners' Chronicle' 

 1905, Vol. II, opposite page 328. 



