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CHOICE LILIES.-VINES AND VINE-CULTURE, XVIII. 
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CHOICE LILIES. 
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'pN the limited area of the accompanying 
p plate, Mr. Fitch has very cleverly contrived 
to present unexceptionable portraits of 
two fine and very distinct species of Lilium , 
namely, L. dcdniaticum and L. neilgherrense 
tubtjiorum luteum , both of which are plants of 
a highly decorative character. 
Fig. 1 represents Lilium dalmaticum. This 
is sometimes ranked as a mere variety of L. 
Martagon , but the plant is a very distinct one, 
and worthy of being cultivated for its own 
special merits. Like all the Lilies of the 
Martagon type, it has ovoid yellowish bulbs of 
moderate size, formed of numerous narrow 
scales. The stems grow three or four feet in 
height, and are furnished with from two to 
four whorls of leaves, each whorl consisting of 
from six to nine leaves, which are horizontal, 
oblanceolate-spathulate, sessile, of a soft herba¬ 
ceous texture, and of a deep dull-green colour. 
The flowers grow many together in a loose 
elongated raceme, and are nodding, of moderate 
size, with the segments recurved and exposing 
the prominent anthers ; these segments are 
stout in texture, and are of a dark purplish- 
claret, almost or quite without dots. The 
anthers bear reddish-purple pollen, and the 
stigma is also red. It was called L. Cattaneai 
by Prof. Visiani in the Flora Dalmatica, the 
plant being a native of Dalmatia; while Mr. 
Baker, our most recent authority, if we except 
Mr. Elwes (whose splendid folio monograph of 
Lilies is now nearly completed), places it as a 
variety of L. Martagon. Whichever view be 
taken of its botanical status, there can' be no 
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two opinions as to the high position it must 
occupy as a decorative plant, amongst hardy 
garden bulbs. 
Fig. 2 represents a variety of Lilium neil¬ 
gherrense, called tubiflorum luteum, on 
account of the long-tubed form of its flowers, 
and their yellowish colour, as compared with 
the whiter flowers of the type. The bulb in 
this is nearly globose, composed of a few thick 
scales. The stem grows from two to three 
feet high, and is furnished with from thirty to 
forty shining green, scattered linear pointed 
leaves, which are distinctly tliree-nerved, and 
the lower ones three to four inches long. The 
flowers are nearly a foot long, deliciously 
scented, deflexed, funnel-shaped, with a very 
long and narrow tube, the oblanceolate seg¬ 
ments spreading so as to form a trumpet-shaped 
mouth ; the colour is a soft, delicate sulphur- 
yellow. The stamens are slightly shorter than 
the floral segments, and have yellow anthers, 
containing orange-yellow pollen, and they are 
slightly exceeded by the greenish obtusely 
three-lobed stigma. This fine lily is found in 
the temperate regions of the Neilgherry moun¬ 
tains, and is one of a series of forms differing 
slightly in colour, and in the length of the tube 
and the breadth of the perianth segments, all 
of them, however, being fine ornamental plants, 
valuable on account of their late-flowering 
habit. Dr. Wallace states that he believes 
these Neilgherry Lilies to be quite hardy, but 
whether hardy or not, they prove admirable 
objects for pot-culture for the decoration of the 
conservatory.—T. Moore. 
VINES AND VINE-CULTURE. 
Chap. XVIII.— The Varieties of Grapes. —(Continued.) 
HE descriptions of the several varieties 
of Grapes included in our synoptical 
table, are here continued from page 40. 
Black Hamburgh (1). —An oval black 
Sweetwater Grape.— Synonyms: Black Tripoli, 
Braddick's Seedling Hamburgh, Chasselas dc 
Jerusalem, Frankenthal, Garnston Black Ham¬ 
burgh, Gros Bleu, Hampton Court Black Ham¬ 
burgh, Knevett’s Black Hamburgh, Muscatellier 
noir, Pope Hamburgh, lied Hamburgh, Tripoli, 
Victoria Hamburgh, Warner’s Hamburgh. 
No. 29. imperial series. 
Vine.—Growth free and vigorous, with a remark¬ 
ably line constitution; the wood moderately strong, 
always ripening well; very fruitful. The young 
shoots pale green, yet occasionally tinged with red. 
Leaves of medium size, nearly smooth, pale green in 
colour; the leaf stalks and venation sometimes red¬ 
dish, and when so, the leaves in dying off become 
slightly coloured, and thus differ from the ordinary 
dull yellow colour which the leaves of the Black 
Hamburgh usually assume. 
Fruit.—Bunches medium-sized, obovato in shape, 
with broad shoulders, generally very compact, but 
sometimes loose and straggling; average weight 
from 1 lb. to 2 lb., sots very freely at all times. Ber¬ 
ries large, from 1 in. to ljin. in diameter, roundish- 
ovate in shape, but varying in this respect greatly, 
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