1869, when the bulb showed another spike just appearing among 
the leaves. This spike, which my friend Mr. G. Simpson 
allowed me carefully to examine, was in perfection about the 20th 
of March, and produced twenty-three blossoms, which may be 
classed thus :— 
Five flowers entirely green. | 
Twelve flowers party-coloured crimson and green, but more of 
the former colour. 
Six flowers chiefly green, with crimson points to the sepals. 
Amongst the party-coloured flowers there was one which was 
nearly crimson, with scarcely a trace of green, and might be said 
-to be true to the Robert Steigar variety of the Hyacinth. 
In the flowers I observed that the more they were of the 
crimson colour the shorter and more normal were they in shape, 
and also that they had a more horizontal tendency when in 
bloom. 
One flower only of the twenty-three was found to be of the 
same elongated upright form as in the first spike, and this was 
nearly green. 
I found the greatest amount of crimson-colour was developed 
in the lower flowers of the spike, except in three blooms which 
were the most abnormal both in shape and colour, and were placed 
nearly on the same plane on the stem ; and I found also that the 
most normal flower was placed a very little above the three most 
abnormal flowers just alluded to. 
I observed that the crimson-colour of the flowers was most 
developed on the tube of the corolla, and that pollen was 
perfected in one of the party-coloured flowers.—W. W. S. 
