March 7, 18S8.J 



Garden and Forest 



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such it was preserved in his herbar- 

 ium at Camijridfje. During- the last 

 ten years the same form has again 

 been fomid upon the same niountain, 

 thougli not abundantly, and it lias also 

 been cultivated in the Cambridsfe 

 Botanic Garden. Though evidently 

 related not distantly to L. Canadens'e, 

 yet it differs from it so decidedly that 

 it has been deemed deserving of 

 specific rank and has been honored 

 with the name of its discoverer. Its 

 more striking characteristics appear 

 plainly in the accompanying figure. 

 As contrasted with L. Canadense, the 

 fiowers are smaller, less pendulous, 

 and broader at base ; the petals are 

 broader in proportion, less tapering 

 at the top, and not at all recurved; 

 and the leaves are perfectly smooth, 

 and usually broader and less narrowly 

 piointetl. In L. Cajiadense they are 

 rough upon the edge and usually also 

 upon the veins beneath, and some- 

 times over the whole lower surface. 

 In this respect that species differs also 

 from L. superbum. The fiowers are 

 dark colored, of a deep reddish 

 orange, uniformly dotted within with 

 rather small purple spots. In its 

 native locality it blooms in June. The 

 bulbs are like those of L. Canadense 

 and L. superbum, renewed from year 

 to year upon a perennial rootstock, 

 and respond as kindly to a similar 

 culture. The species has been found 

 upon the Peaks of Otter in Virginia 

 and proliably occurs in many other 

 places in the southern Alleghanies. 



*L. Gravi, Watson, Proc. Ajii. Acad., xiv. 256. 

 Leaves in whorls of 4 to 8, lanceolate, acute or 

 slightly acuminate, not at all scabrous; flowers 

 often solitar)', ascending or somewhat nodding, 

 broadly funnelform, two inches long or less, the 

 petals oblanceolate, abrupt! \' acute, not recurved, 

 deep reddish orange, spotted williin. 



American Thorns as Orna- 

 mental Plants. 



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LUium Grayi 



a special study of the genus, and for that purpose is endeavor- 

 ing to obtain roots or seeds of all our forms from which to 

 grow the plants in his own garden. Roots from any part of 

 the country, and especially from the South and West, will be 

 very acceptable and thankfully acknowledged, whether sent 

 to him, or to the Botanic Garden, at Cambridge, Mass. 



Serena IVaison. 



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Lilium Grayi. 



■ PON the trip which Dr. Asa Gray made to the Alleghany 

 Mountains in 1840 he collected upon Roan Mt., in North 

 Carolina, a single specimen of a lily which was considered by 

 him to be a form of the common Lilium Canadense, and as 



HERE is a general impression 

 that the nati^'e Thorns are valu- 

 able as ornamental plants, and yet 

 they are rarely seen in private 

 grounds unless they grow there 

 naturally. There are two reasons for 

 this neg'lect : the difficidty of trans- 

 planting and growing them, and the 

 perplexing variations of the wild 

 plants. 



There is little difficulty in growing' 

 the Thorns from seeds if the seeds 

 are stratified in sand as soon as ripe, 

 and if the operator is willing to wait 

 a couple of years for the appearing of 

 the seedlings. When yoimg, the plants 

 are removed readily, but success is 

 rare in removing- large speciniens 

 which have never been transplanted. 

 The perplexing variations in the 

 Thorns are among their most attract- 

 ive features and render their cultivation all the more 

 desirable. These variations have reference to size, color, 

 shape, and season of fruits, to haliit of growth and occasion- 

 ally to leaf character. In certain species which occur ia 

 Michigan, notably in Cratcegus punctata, the fruit is so incon- 

 stant that it cannot be relied upon for specific characters. 

 Even yellow-fruited fornis occur. In some individuals the 

 fruit is nearly as large as a sniall Siberian crab, and is borne 

 near the centre of the top, hanging- in attractive maroon lialls 

 from the horizontal spray. In other specimens it is scarcely 

 larger than a pea, and is borne much nearer the ends of the 

 branches, which, in this case, are usually more upright than in 

 the former variation. In short, so inconstant are the Thorn 

 fruits, that the observing traveler in these parts is constantly 



