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more long, bearing numerous inflated, short yellow-green 

 and white flowers. 



L. Nelsoni (fig. 566). — A hybrid between L. tricolor and 

 L. aurea, and possessed of the good qualities of both. It 

 grows freely, produces stout, erect spikes a foot or so high 

 of rich-yellow flowers, the buds at the top crimson. 



Fig. 567— Lachenalia tricolor, in basket. 



L. orchioidcs. — Similar to L. glaucina, but the flowers 

 are smaller and more or less blue in colour on scapes a 

 foot long. 



L. pendula. — Remarkable for its large bulbs, brittle, 

 green, infolded leaves, and vari - coloured flowers. The 

 scape is from 12 to IS inches high, £ inch in diameter at 

 the base, bearing a dozen or more flowers each from H 

 to 2 inches long, coloured orange-red with purple and 

 emerald -green tips. In some forms the flowers are 

 mottled, in others the purple is wanting. It is quite 

 distinct from L. tricolor, and is probably the L. aureliana 

 of some gardens. 



L. tricolor (fig. 567).— The commonest of all Lachen- 

 alias, and a most useful plant when properly grown. 

 There are several varieties of it, namely lutcola, aurca, 

 quadricolor, and Ward, distinguished by differences in 

 coloration of the flowers. The type has fleshy green 

 mottled leaves a foot long and up to 2 inches wide, a 

 scape a foot high, bearing from twelve to twenty tubu- 

 lar flowers an inch long, coloured red, yellow, and 

 green. 



Lilium. 1 — The genus Lilium is widely dis- 

 tributed over the southern portion of the con- 

 tinents of Europe, Asia, and America, their 

 presence on the latter continent being limited 

 to the southern half of North America. Of 

 these three regions Asia 

 has the greatest number of 

 species ; Europe the next; 

 America, if we take into 

 consideration its vast area, 

 ranking last. To Asia also 

 we are indebted for our 

 most magnificent species, 

 whilst, as a general rule, 

 European Lilies are most 

 amenable to cultivation, 

 North American next, and 

 Asiatic last. With the 

 exception of a few from 

 India, all Lilies are hardy 

 in the United Kingdom, a 

 late spring frost doing in- 

 finitely more damage to 

 them when in growth than 

 a very severe winter. One 

 so often hears it doubted 

 that such species as L. 

 JJroumi, L. Hansoni, L. 

 giganteum, L. longiflorum, 

 L. Henryi, L. Martagon, L. 

 album, &c, can be culti- 

 vated with success in the 

 open border that it is neces- 

 sary to emphasize the fact 

 of their hardiness. 



The following is taken 

 from "A Conspectus of the 

 Genus Lilium ", by Pro- 

 fessor F. A. Waugh, pub- 

 lished in the Botanical Gazette, Chicago, vol. 

 xxvi. (1899). 



"It is now a quarter of a century since Mr. 

 J. G. Baker, of Kew, made his monograph, and 

 twenty -two years since Mr. Elwes published 

 his monumental work on Lilies. Since that 

 time many new species have been added to the 

 list, and some fresh light has been thrown on 

 such as were imperfectly understood before. 



" In the following list I have numbered sixty- 

 four species, which, with their varieties, stand 

 as follows: — 



Sub-genus I., Eulirion. — L. candidum ; L. Delavayi ; 

 L. japonicum, vars. Alexandras, Browni, roseum ; L. longi- 

 florum, var. eximium ; L. Lowii ; L. neilgherrense ; L. 



i A paper, with alterations and additions, by Mr. R. W. 

 Wallace, of Colchester, published in the Journal of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society in November, 1900. 



