The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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FLORAL 1 IRL CRACKKR. 



HROL'.GH the courtesy of Mr. A. Blanc, of Philadelphia, we 



here show our readers another floral novelty in the Brodi^ea 



Coccinea, or the Fire-Cracker plant. It is also called the 



Crimson Satin flower. The Brodiaeas are named after Mr. J. 



J. Brodie, a Scotch botanist, and are of the genus Liliaceaei 



^.? '' y ; . ..j They are natives of California. '^I'here are about a dozen va" 



(Li^-^O rieties, described in the Dictionary of Gardening, and they 



'^ foam a pretty class of bulbs, though somewhat tender. They 



are easily propagated by planting the offsets, which should be removed and 



replanted in the autumn. 



Fig. 1. — FluKAL FlKK-C'KACKKk. 



The^prevailing color of the flowers is blue, but the Brodia;a Coccinea, which 

 we show in our illustration, is an exception to the rule. Its flowers are scarlet. 

 No doubt it derives its common name from the resemblance which its peculiar 

 flowers show to the boys" fire-crackers. The tall stems, of from one to two feet 

 in height, bear umbels of pendant flowers, two to three inches long, of a rich 

 crimson color, tipped with vivid green. There are tweve or fifteen flowers in 

 each umbel, and the bloom appears in June and lasts for several weeks. This 

 variety was discovered in California in the vear 1870. 



