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flowers are very campanulate, about J inch long, outer segments 

 as long as inner, stamens twice as long as segments. Flowers 

 from pink to purple in colour. 



Seedling Lachenalias. — The late Rev. John Nelson seems to 

 have been the first person to take up the raising of hybrid 

 Lachenalias. Two of his seedlings are well known, one of 

 which is probably the very best Lachenalia in cultivation at the 

 present time, and very aptly it bears his name, L. Nelsoni. The 

 other is L. aureo-reflexa. The first reference I can find to the 

 former is in the Garden for July 17, 1880, where there is a 

 coloured plate of this species and others. In the text pertaining 

 to that plate it is stated to be a variety of L. tricolor ; but the 

 Eev. Mr. Nelson, in a note headed " Seedling Lachenalias," on 

 page 166 of the Garden for February 5, 1881, says : " I send 

 for your inspection my seedling Lachenalia and its two parents. 

 My impression last year was correct about its distinctness from 

 aurea ; the Floral Committee pooh-poohed it as only aurea, and 

 I began to think my impression of the colour of aurea might pos- 

 sibly be a little indistinct, though I appreciate colours pretty well 

 and can generally keep them in my mind's eye as a rule. I 

 think you will agree with me that the two plants are quite 

 distinct ; I may be a little blinded in favour of my own bantling, 

 but in my estimation my plant is the more showy of the two, and 

 it is a far more vigorous grower, and will be as free as its female 

 parent luteola, so that it will soon become common and every- 

 body's plant." This it certainly should be. It is a free, vigorous 

 grower, with bold, handsome foliage. The scapes are very stout, 

 and stand firmly upright without any support ; as many as 

 eighteen blossoms have been open on one flower-stalk, all fresh 

 and good, their colour being bright golden yellow, with an occa- 

 sional splash of green, which serves to emphasise the body 

 colour. The sterile buds and the top of the scape are red, very 

 bright when well exposed to light. The Eev. T. Marsh says in a 

 letter to me : " None, I think, are such free flowerers or so easily 

 managed as Nelsoni and its crosses. They never seem to fail." 

 An opinion which I thoroughly endorse. L. aureo-reflexa 

 (so named by Baker, and described in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 April 30, 1887) seems undoubtedly to be the plant exhibited by 

 Barr & Son at the meeting of our Society on March 10, 1885, 

 under the name of "Aldborough Beauty," and about which 



