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LILIUM PARKMANNI. 
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E have now the satisfaction'of inti^oducihg'M our ihadei^'^a colourfeii' fi^f^'^ 
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of the superb Lilium-Parkmanni,;which-was briefly.noticed at p,.1215/of,I 
our last year’s vdluine^'iisi'having.,blbbhied'with^!]^^ AV'Waiierei^/ bf, thC'f 
Knap Hill Nursefy/M? The limits i of .Our ordinary page are ■'so inadequate 
to represent the aspect i^of^ this noble .flb'VTOK^that we ' have fbuhd' it liecessai'y to^"'^ 
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adopt a double-page ' illustration^; which we think\will show .that we/have by i no . t 
means been guilty of /exaggeration' in'descnbmg.^'Mr.^Parkmah’a 
nificent, and one of the grandest flowering plants yet introduced to our gardens..jj.'<f 
The plant, as grown by Mr. "Waterer from ^a‘hot over-vigorous biilb, was^abouf'^ 
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two feet high, the stems slender, and each bearing); a:isolitary ferect,.or d nearly 
erect, flower, though it is probable, as both its parentkwhen welhgrown ]prpd.uce 
a branched inflorescence, that this hybrid may have the samerhabit. The leaves -i 
were dark-green, numerous, alternate, and ovate acuminate in outline, a goo.d^j^ 
deal resembling vigorous leaves of L. speciosum. The flowers were very large, o 
the perianth segments, when straightened, being about 14 in. in length, and the 
whole flower, as reflexed, having a breadth of 8 in., the petaline segments 4 in. 
broad, and the sepaline one somewhat narrower. The basal half or more of the 
segments was suffused with rosy-crimson, most deeply so near their median line, 
this tinted portion being also spotted richly with deeper crimson spots, and bear¬ 
ing papillae (some of them a quarter of an inch long) of the same rich hue, the 
tints, as in many other lilies, having a sparkling brightness which cannot be repro¬ 
duced upon paper. The upper end of the segments and the margin were of a 
clear white. The anthers were nearly an inch long, and bore chocolate-coloured 
pollen, while the st 3 ’’le, with its purple stigma, was about an inch longer than 
the somewhat spreading stamens. The fragrance of the flower was delightful, 
the odour being sweeter and more delicate in its nature than that of L, auratum^ 
but more powerful than that of its mother-parent. 
This remarkable hybrid was raised by Mr. Parkman, the president of 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and we append its history in Mr. P^rkmaq’sr 
own words, quoted from a letter addressed to the Gardener's^ ChroniQle^ ^fter tlie/ 
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notice of its having bloomed at Knap Hill had appeared therein :— 
“ I sent last year to Mr. Anthony Waterer a small bulb of a hybrid Lily raised by me 
between L. auratum and a deop-coloured variety of L. speciosum. - Tlib Ixrtter was the female 
parent. Impregnation took place readily, and the young bulbs-were , plapted in the open 
ground for the first time in the spring of 1869. There were about fifty of them. Several, 
as they grew, showed the peculiar spotted stem of the male/parent, but when'th^yJset.Bp^r-r) 
buds, as nearly all of them did in the same season, I could distinguish the features. of1 1 
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* Lilium Parkmanni .—Stem slender, one-flowered [? always] leaves ovate acuminate, altemaxe, flVe--; 
nerved; flowers very large, the perianth segments spreading'out nearly flat Irom .the .base, becoming,' 
recurved towards the apex, the petaline ones broader, white, suffused towards the greenish base with rosy- 
crimson, and thickly studded with deep crimson spots and papiUje,; stamens somewhat spresjdlpg, the-Y/- 
anthers nearly an inch long, and the pollen deep chocolate-coloured ; style green, about an inch longer^thah’ 
the stamens, with a purple stigma. Hybrid between L. auratum a^icl Ji* , epeciosttm.-f-T>,JSIOOWS,,in Ga^'tf.rrr 
CA/m, n. 8., iv., 494. ^ . . . . 
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