POPULAR GARDEN PLANTS. 



469 



L. speciosum, var. nanum. — Late, dwarf, foliage droop- 

 ing, flowers soft-rose. 



L. speciosum, var. punctatum. — White, spotted and 

 shaded pink. 



L. speciosum, var. roseum. — White, spotted rose. 



L. speciosum, var. roseum formosum. — Distinct, the 

 whole flower being of a lovely soft-rose shade; foliage 

 and stem light-green. 



L. speciosum, var. roseum superbum. — Like Melpomene, 

 but with green stem; flowers large, of great substance 

 and perfect shape. 



L. speciosum, var. rubrum. — White, spotted crimson. 



L. sulphureum ( Wallichianum superbum) (fig. 577). — 

 A grand Lily; tall, with very large tubular flowers, cream- 



Fig. 577.— Lilium sulphureum. 



yellow inside, tinted rosy-brown outside. Easily culti- 

 vated, and is very prolific, producing small bulbs at the 

 base of the leaves as in L. tigrinum. Does well in 

 pots. 



L. superbum. — Stem 6 to 7 feet high when established, 

 and producing twelve to thirty bright orange-crimson, re- 

 curved, heavily spotted flowers; prefers a moist situation. 

 N. America. 



L. Szovitzianum (colchicum). — One of the finest Lilies; 

 colour a rich citron spotted with black, anthers chorolate- 

 brown; the flowers are large, and are arranged like so many 

 pendulous bells around a graceful stem, which frequently 

 attains a height of 5 feet, with as many as thirty flowers 

 on it. One of the earliest to bloom. Caucasus. 



L. tenuifolium. — Graceful slender stems, bearing many 

 bright-scarlet flowers; early. Dahuria. 



L. testaceum (excelsum). — A stately Lily, 4 to 5 feet 

 high, bearing six to twelve flowers of a beautiful nankeen - 

 yellow shade; perfectly hardy, very free -blooming; one of 

 the best. Japan. 



L. tigrinum {sinensis). — The fine old Tiger Lily. Japan. 



L. tigrinum, var. flore pleno. — The old double Tiger 

 Lily. _ 



L. tigrinum, var. Fortunei giganteum. — This has pyra- 



midal spikes 6 feet high, carrying in many cases fifty 

 flowers of grand colour. 



L. tigrinum, var. splendens. — Has the finest flowers, 

 largest spots, and is more highly coloured. 



L. umbellatum. — An early free-flowering species, with 

 tall stems and large heads of orange-red flowers, very 

 free and easily grown. Dahuria. 



L. umbellatum, var. erectum. — Red, flushed orange. 



L. umbellatum, var. grandiflorum. — Flowers orange-red. 



L. umbellatum, var. incompjarabile. — Scarlet, very fine. 



L. umbellatum, var. Sap/fjho. — Light-orange, flushed red. 



The following are said to be the result of crossing 

 L. umbellatum with L. Thunbergianum: — Aurantiacum, 

 bright -orange, flushed with red ; Cloth of Gold, strong 

 spike, light golden-yellow; Pictum, in the way of elegaus 

 bicolor; Sensation, a splendid large flower. 



L. Wallacei. — A splendid late -flowering Lily, each bulb 

 producing three to five stems of rosy apricot-tinted flowers, 

 thickly spotted. Invaluable as a pot -plant; likes moisture. 

 (A form of L. elegans.) 



L. Washingtonianum. — A distinct species, producing 

 long panicles of flowers, which have widely - expanded 

 petals, white, shading off to lilac, fragrant. California. 



L. Washingtonianum, var. purpureum (rubescens). — 

 Flowers opening white, changing to a delicate purple. 



Narcissus. — A well-defined genus of hardy 

 bulbous plants, mostly natives of western Europe, 

 and much cultivated and improved during recent 

 years. The best and freest-flowering kinds have 

 been so extensively grown in the Scilly Islands 

 and in Cornwall, as also in Lincolnshire, near 

 London, and elsewhere, as to have become of 

 considerable economic importance, both bulbs 

 and cut-blooms having been very remunerative 

 to market-gardeners, florists, and others. Im- 

 mense quantities are also grown in Ireland, 

 where the rich deep soils and moist and genial 

 winter climate is specially suitable to their 

 healthy growth and early flowering. 



Their flowers are solitary, or clustered several 

 I together on their fluted stalks, and are in the 

 | main yellow or white in colour; but some of the 

 more recent seedlings and hybrids have red- 

 orange or fiery-tinted cups or "crowns", which 

 add much to their decorative value. 



Until quite recently but little colour except 

 yellow could be found in the trumpets of the 

 Ajax or Daffodil section of the genus; but a 

 variety named "Apricot", raised by M. M. de 

 Graaff of Leyden, Holland, has a trumpet of a 

 soft, reddish-buff tint, and is looked upon as an 

 augury of more intensely coloured trumpets in 

 the near future. There is one seedling, viz. 

 "Red Coat", that has a flush of orange-red in 

 the perianth, this being the first indication of 

 the kind. 



About twenty distinct species are now recog- 

 nized, but the number of really hardy, free- 

 growing, and free-blooming kinds, producing 



