EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN. 427 



EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN ON A 

 SUPPOSED HYBRID BETWEEN L. PARDALINUM $ AND 



L. PARRYII ?. 



By James Snow Whall. 



, . . As the Lily was withered when it arrived, I do not wonder at your 

 taking it for h. imrdalinum^ and not a good one at that. Of its hybrid 

 origin there is, however, no doubt. 



I made the cross myself in 1893, sowed the seed in October of the 

 same year, and no one else has had anything to do with its cultivation. 

 When you have had an opportunity of examining it closely I think you 

 will see signs of the parentage. I was aware that many Lilies had been 

 said to show no signs of change though carefully fertilised with foreign 

 pollen, and it was this, I think, that led me to experimentalise. 



It was not because I think the Lily better than its parents (I do not) 

 that I sent it to you. I thought it would be interesting chiefly because 

 it shows the influence of the pollen parent {L. pardalinum) so strongly. 

 This influence is shown mainly in colour and in the reflexing of the 

 petals. In general growth, in the set of the flower on the stem, in scent, 

 and in the form of the bulb, the mother (L. Farryi) is visible. After all, 

 I do not know that we want hybrid Lilies ! . . . 



