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showy ornaments of the garden, as the color of the flower 
is rich and brilliant. If ten or fifteen flowers could be 
produced on one stem, the effect of a group of plants 
would be surpassingly rich. 
L, testaceum,—A splendid species, introduced within a 
few years under the name of ZL. excelsum. The plants 
grow four or five feet high, forming a regular pyramid of 
lanceolate leaves, upon a stout thick stem, crowned with 
six or eight large nodding Lilies, of a delicate straw or 
nankin color, finely set off by their prominent scarlet 
anthers; the bulbs are very large; perfectly hardy. 
L. auratum.— Golden Striped Lily.— This new and 
magnificent species of Lily lately introduced from Japan, 
is thus described by Dr. Lindley : — 
“If ever a flower merited the name of glorious, it is 
this, which stands far above all other Lilies, whether we 
regard its size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement 
of color. Imagine, upon the end of a purple stem, not 
thicker than a ramrod, and not above two feet high, a 
saucer-shaped flower at least ten inches in diameter, com- 
posed of six spreading, somewhat crisp parts, rolled back 
at their points, and having an ivory-white skin, thinly 
strewn with purple points or studs, and oval or roundish 
prominent purple stains. To this add, in the middle of 
each of the six parts, a broad stripe of light satin-yellow, 
loosing itself gradually in the ivory skin. Place the 
flower in a situation where side-light is cut off, and no di- 
rect light can reach it except from above, when the stripes 
acquire the appearance of gentle streamlets of Australian 
gold, and the reader who has not seen it, may form some 
feeble notion of what it is. Fortunately ten thousand 
eyes beheld it at South Kensington, and they can fill up 
the details of the picture. From this delicious flower, 
there arises the perfume of orange blossoms sufficient to 
fill a large room, but so delicate as to respect the weakest 
