Plate 135 . 
NEW VARIETIES OF HERBACEOUS CALCEOLARIAS. 
The unrivalled blooms from which our Plate was taken were kindly furnished to us for 
this Magazine by Messrs. Dobson and Sons, of Isleworth, whose gorgeous displays of this 
favourite plant are well known to every visitor of our Summer Exhibitions. Messrs. Dobson 
and Sons have for many years made this plant almost entirely their own, and year after year 
they have cultivated and improved it with unceasing zeal and energy. The consequence of 
this is, that though the improvement has been comparatively slow, yet it has been certain, 
and the trained eye of the florist has had no difficulty whatever in noting the more and more 
perfect form, the still larger size, the more compact habit, and ever new changes in the 
almost endless variety of coloration. It is now exactly ten years since we figured a group 
of Herbaceous Calceolarias, and a glance at our former Plate (156) in comparison with 
the one we now give, will show what a marked improvement has taken place in a decade of 
years. No names are appended to the varieties here figured, as they are simply endless, and 
all charming alike. The top left hand flower is a rich golden yellow variety ; but the same 
form often comes dotted all over with the most excessively minute carmine spots, and some- 
times with spots similar in size to the variety on the right, which has a lighter yellow 
ground, approaching lemon. The central figure on the left has a ground of golden apricot, 
marbled with deep blood-red, whilst the central variety on the right is an intense blood-red 
self ; the same form is sometimes dotted with golden spots round the circumference. The 
bottom left hand figure is a deep crimson, of which there is a variety dotted similar to the 
last ; and the bottom right hand bloom is yellow and crimson, marbled with intense maroon- 
crimson. One marked variety we had no space to illustrate — crimson round the circum- 
ference, gradually passing through ivory white to a yellow centre. 
Plate 136 . 
LILIUM PARVIFLORUM.— L. DALMATICUM.— L. AVENACEUM. 
For the opportunity of figuring the two first Lilies on the accompanying Plate we are 
indebted to Mr. William Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea, who was one of the first to take a 
really active part in bringing this fine tribe of plants prominent!}' - before the public ; and in 
past volumes we have figured many fine lilies from the King’s Road establishment. Lilium 
parviflorum (Hooker), is that variety of L. canadense that comes nearest to L: martagon and 
L. maculatum ; and its natural habitat stretches from Vancouver’s Island and British 
Columbia to Oregon and California. Its colour is similar to that of the now well known 
L. Humboldtii , and the flowers are generally from two to four in number. 
L. dalmaticum (Maly) is a remarkable variety of L. martagon, and was first brought to 
notice by Herr Leiclitlin. The flowers are more than double as large as those of the typical 
L. martagon, the petals being of a very thick substance, and a very pure and intense blackish- 
purple colour. L. dalmaticum is the darkest, and one of the most effective of the whole Lily 
tribe. The plant attains a height of from three to five feet, and bears from fifteen to twenty- 
five flowers. 
For the single bloom of L. avenaceum we are indebted to Gr. F. Wilson, Esq., of Wey- . 
bridge. The plant attains a height of two feet, and bears five or six flowers in a rather 
loose corymbose umbel. We are informed that this Lily is perfectly hardy, and a native of 
Kamtschatka, Mandchuria, the Kurile Islands, and Japan. 
