VARIOUS JULY 
i aa aad Botanical Height |Time of 
English sess and 
Color | Nace x fu a Description Situatt Bloom 
foliage dies, dig up the bulb, drv in 
open air and store in dry cellar. Prop. 
by seed or by small bulb at base of 
parent bulb. Any garden soil, pret- 
erably rich moist sandy loam. Cape 
Colony; Natal. See Plate, page 367. 
Named hybrids. White vars.— 
Angéle; very effective. Si ow-W hite,; 
beautiful pure white, with a faint line 
of rose on the lower petal. 
Pink vars.— Madame Monneret, del- 
icate rose pink. Pyramide, large 
well-opened flowers, bright orange- 
rose. Surprise, purplish rose, very 
late blooming. 
Red vars.—*Brenchleyensis; bril- 
liant vermilion-scarlet. Flamboyant; 
large flowers, flaming scarlet. 
Parti-colored vars. — A vatha,; dashed 
with lilac-carmine, spotted with clear 
yellow. Apollon; rose-lilac, with 
large rose spot, and centre striped 
with white. Baucts; large rose flow- 
ers, slightly tinted with salmon, 
blotched with purplish red. Calypso; 
flesh-colored rose, dashed with rose 
and mottled with carmine. Ceres, 
snow-white and mottled with purplish 
rose. Crépuscule; large spikes of 
lilac-rose flowers, suffused with car- 
mine and edged with violet. Eldo- 
rado; yellow, lower petals marked 
with red. Fatima, cream-white 
streaked with rose-salmon and 
blotched with violet. Grandesse,; 
large well expanded flowers, pinkish 
white, touched with lilac, blotched 
with carmine. La France, (24 deeper 
& 3), cream-white with carmine edge 
and purplish blotch. Leviathan, 
large flowers, delicate rose, streaked 
with carmine and blotched with pur- 
ple. May, large spikes of pure white 
flowers, spotted with rose-crimson. 
Mr. Jansen, fine spike of large rose- 
carmine flowers, edged and slightly 
streaked with purplish red, and 
blotched with cream color. Neron; 
tall spike of round flowers, deep crim- 
son, touched with deep blood-red and 
violet. Ophir; dark yellow blotched 
with purple. Pepita; creamy yellow 
streaked with pink. Phebus; (18 
brilliant), vivid red strikingly blotched 
with white. Schiller; sulphur-vellow, 
with large carmine blotch. Titania; 
beautiful spike, creamy salmon dashed 
with cherry-red. Van Dael; very 
large flowers, light salmon-pink near 
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