ON LILIES 



Nevertheless there is a large group of lilies that 

 bear greater or less resemblance to the typical 

 species, having characteristics of form, no less 

 than of arrangement of stamens and pistils, that 

 are quite unmistakable to anyone having the 

 slightest botanical knowledge. 



A large number of these may be hybridized 

 readily, and I have personally worked with a great 

 number of species. But while the results have in 

 many cases been interesting, they have not been 

 very spectacular, or very important, and it is not 

 necessary here to go into details with regard to 

 most of them. It will suffice to tell of two or three 

 typical hybridizing experiments made chiefly with 

 the native leopard lily (Lillium pardalinum) as 

 the pistillate parent. 



The extent of my experiments with the tribe 

 may be gathered from the statement that at one 

 time on the two Sebastopol farms I had fully five 

 hundred thousand more or less distinct kinds of 

 hybrid seedling lilies. About three-quarters of 

 them were produced by pollenizing the native spe- 

 cies just named with all the species from different 

 parts of the world of which I could obtain 

 specimens. 



I found that hybrids between the numerous 

 species of lilies that are native to the Pacific Coast 

 could be made with the greatest facility. Tens of 



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