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of General Molthe^ briglit porcelain, and forming a beautiful spike; Karl 
Immerman^ clear blue, with dark lines and shading ; Sieraad van Flora^ blue, 
with broad dark violet lines and light eye ; Justus von Liehig^ black-blue; 
General van Swieten^ black-blue, with black shading; Emilia Ingham^ dark 
purple-violet, with black lines ; Bourgueinaitre de Gand^ very dark violet-blue, 
with black stripe on each segment. The Single Yellows consist of General 
Kohlei\ clear bright yellow ; Gustave Dore^ bright yellow, and a beautiful spike, 
late; Alma Tadema^ bright yellow, with darker lines. 
Amongst the new double-flowered varieties, the class of Double Yellows 
would appear to have obtained the greatest acquisition in William //., a deep 
yellow, striped with orange, and with very double bells. The varieties we 
already possess in this group are of a very inferior character, and it is to be 
hoped that the high price set upon this novelty indicates quality rather than a 
limited stock. The Double Blues comprise President Grants dark blue, with 
dark, almost black, lines on the. segments ; President MacMahon^ very double, 
dark blue, marked with violet lines, and paler margins ; and Bloemhof^ very 
double light blue, marked with dark lines. The Double Reds are augmented 
by a semi-double variety, called General Verspyck^ which has pale rose-coloured 
bells, marked with dark sLxx^ This is a large number to emanate in one 
season from one establishment; let us hope they may contain at least some that 
will prove to be permanent acquisitions.—T. M. 
GARDEN LILIES.— Chapter VII. 
ESUMING our enumeration of the Lilies belonging to the group of Eulirion, 
we have still one or two extremely interesting species to notice—namely, 
L. Belladonna^ and L. Washingtonianum and its Ydineiy jmrpureum. 
•14. Lilium Belladonna.— This Lily is known to us only from the 
account given 'by Mr. Baker in the Journal of the Linnean Society (xiv., 232), 
where it is mentioned as being cultivated by M. Leichtlin. It is described as 
probably a garden hybrid between L. speciosum and L. longiflormn^ having the 
habit of the former, but flowers resembling L. candidum^ only of a reddish colour 
(rubellum), instead of white. It grows a foot high, or more, with slender terete 
smooth green stems ; the leaves, about twenty in number, being smooth, lanceolate 
acuminate, 1^ in. to 2 in. long, shortly stalked, and somewhat distant. The 
flowers are from one to three in number, the upper erect, the lateral ones hori¬ 
zontal ; the perianth is broadly funnel-shaped, 3 in. long, stained with red through¬ 
out, except at the exterior base, where it is tinted with green, the segments 
oblanceolate, unspotted, the inner ones broadest. The stamens are four times 
shorter than the perianth, with narrow reddish anthers; and the style is slightly 
declinate, longer than the stamens, and tern^iinated by a small stigma. 
15. Lilium Washingtonianum {Flore des Serres^ tt. 1975-76 ; Gartenflora^ 
t. 710).—A beautiful sweet-scented Lily, with erect terete stems 3 ft. to 5 ft. 
high, and which are glabrous like the rest of the plant. The leaves are nar- 
