TORCH LILY. 



Tritoma vvaria. 



FAMILIAR name is not often so 

 .;" i obviously justified as the 

 name of the flower before 

 us j a less elegant but quite 

 appropriate and even more 

 familiar name for it is 

 "Red-hot Poker." What- 

 ever may be said for its 

 beauty, it is certainly the 

 most striking flower for its 

 season, making a fiery glow 

 in the shrubbery borders 

 and a genuine conflagra- 

 tion in the parterre. It is 

 scarcely a proper subject for 

 the parterre, perhaps ; in 

 any case, to plant tritomas 

 in masses is a bold proceed- 

 ing, needing a little extra 

 care to avoid a violation of 

 good taste. We have used 

 them in masses with sin- 

 gularly good effect in a country garden, where there 

 were ample breadths of grass and trees. The tritomas 



