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Lemoinei. — Fine, good size flowers, closely set on 

 the spike, which is about one foot long ; upper petals of a 

 creamy white color, tinted salmon-red, the lower ones 

 spotted with deep purplish-crimson, bordered with bright 

 yellow and salmony red. 



Marie Lemoine. — Long spike of fine well-ex- 

 panded flowers ; upper divisions of a pale creamy color, 

 flushed with salmon-lilac, the lower divisions spotted 

 purplish-violet, and bordered deep yellow. 



Masque de Fer. — Flowers very open, medium 

 size ; bronze-red, the two lower lateral divisions entirely 

 velvety black, with a yellow arrow in the center of the 

 spot ; plant dwarf. 



Obelisk. — Flowers large, violet; lower petals 

 blotched brown, spotted with sulphur. 



Rochambeau. — Flowers large, salmon, lower petals 

 dark salmon ; blotched purple. 



Stanley. — Red ; lower petals dark yellow, blotched 

 with blood-red. 



Talma. — Pale lilac ; lower divisions violet-brown. 



Victor Hugo.— Flowers very large ; rose colored, 

 lower petals dark sulphur, blotched with vermillion. 



We cannot dismiss this class without saying that 

 for display, or for decorative purposes, they do not com- 

 pare favorably with the Gandavensis section. 



The M ax Leichtlin Hybrids. — The surprise cre- 

 ated by the introduction of the Lemoine Hybrids had 

 no sooner died away, than another class of equal mag- 

 nitude was announced, of a cross between C Saundersii 

 and a variety of G. Gandavensis, which was effected by 

 the celebrated bulb grower, Max Leichtlin, of Baden 

 Baden, Germany. These hybrids are remarkable in 

 many respects, and in all respects they are superior to 

 either parent. For size and shape of flowers they have 

 no equals in the various classes ; some of the individual 

 flowers are immense, fully five inches across ; the spikes 

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