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about in the sub-tropical border, the castor 
oil plants are splendid subjects. Plenty of 
room must be allowed them, in fact they 
should stand perfectly clear of each other 
and of other plants. ‘They will require to 
be securely staked und tied, and abundance 
of water must be given during dry 
weather.—‘‘ Gardeners’ Magazine.” 
BULBS. 
DAY LILY (Hemerocallis Hybrids), 
The following is a brief descriptive 
account uf the Hemerocallis or Day Lily 
hybrids which bave been raised and have 
flowered at Clifton Cottage, York. 
H flav. crossed with Middendorfii ‘re- 
sulted in a hybrid that was named Apricot. 
It ob*ained an Award of Merit from the 
R.H.S. at the Temple Showin 1893. » It 
first flowered in 189!, and was awarded a 
certificate at York in the following year. 
H. Graminea crossed with Middendorfii 
(probably) was named Frances. It first 
flowered in 1892, and obtained an Award of 
Merit from the R.H.S. in 1894. I do not 
feel sure about the parentage of this. It is 
‘dwarf, and grows very feebly with me—in 
fact, I have but one plant left. H. graminea 
has the same objection to living in my 
garden, though when the plants are trans- 
ferred to the York nurseries they grow well 
enough, 
H. flava crossed with Sieboldi (syn. 
Dumortieri and rutilans) gave a number of 
seedlings which for ‘garden purposes need 
distinct names, although they have more or 
less a family likeness. Beauty is of a 
better shape than most of the seedlings 
from this cross, being more in the style of 
Apricot. The three outer petals are dark 
(maroon) at the back ; the three inner ones 
broad, and of a good yellow. Plant com- 
paratively dwarf. Patience is tall and 
branching, with the habit of H flava. The 
flowers are a little paler in color than H. 
Sieboldi, and stand well above the foliage. 
There are five to nine flowers on a stem. 
This variety must be established before it 
will do well. Flame has orange colored 
flowers, the three outer petals having 
maroon on the back. The buds are also 
maroon in color. ‘The flower-stems are not 
so tall as in Patience, but yet stand well 
above the foliage. Flame is very effective 
in a mass, and has an excellent constitution. 
William Dean may be described as an 
orange flava. The buds show traces of 
Sieboldi coloring, but the open flowers, four 
to nine on a stem, have very little maroon 
on the outside. ‘The plant has not so 
branching a habit as Patience. W. A. 
Clark is another orange flava, but quite: 
distinct from William Dean ‘The only 
trace of Sieboldi is to be found in the 
scent, which is much the same as that of 
Sieboldi. | Though this plant appeared 
among a batch of flava and Sieboldi seed- 
lings JI should have been doubtful of its 
origin if it had not been for the scent of the 
flowers, though it is, of course, undesirable 
to multiply names. Yet I have a number 
of seedlings from this cross which may 
eventually require to be so distinguished 
for garden purposes. These include one, 
perhaps paler in color than flava, with 
maroon. backs to the outer petals. 
THE AU~!RALIAN GARDENER. 
H. Thumbergi crossed with  distichs 
(single-flowered).—I showed, under the 
name of Pioneer, a blossom obtained from 
this cross at the Hybrid Conference in 189). 
Next year the same plant produced a larger 
flower, and more than a dozen seedlings of 
the same parentage have produced blossoms. 
The flowers vary considerably, some being 
much rounder than others The finest of 
all is a really handsome flower about four 
and a half inches across. Some have the 
halo round the centre of the inside of the 
blossom which the cross was intended to 
obtain. ‘There will probably turn out to be 
at least three plants sufficiently distinct for 
garden purposes to deserve separate names. 
I have a nice batch of seedlings of the 
same cross a year younger. This year H. 
disticha bad not sent up any flowers when 
H. Thumbergi was in full blossom, sv that 
no hybridising of these two species has 
been possible this season.—G@. Yzxp. 
THE TIGER LILY AND ITS VARIE- 
TIES IN ENGLAND. 
With the advent of the month of. August 
the first of the tiger lilies unfold their 
blossoms, and for some weeks the different 
varieties form one of the showiest outdoor 
features in the garden. They are in many 
ways a very desirable group of lilies, being 
perfectly hardy, not at all fastidious as to 
soil or situation—though they do best in a 
well-drained loam—and can be increased to 
almost any extent by the small bulbils that 
are borne in such numbers in the axils of 
the leaves. Besides this, good floweriag 
bulbs can be purchased at a very cheap 
rate, being largely grown by the Dutch, 
and a very desirable feature of this lily in 
all its forms is that it flowers well the first 
season after planting, which is more than 
can be said of many lilies. In planting the 
tiger lily no indiscriminate dotting here and 
there should be indulged in, but good bold 
groups which are extremely effective should 
he the aim, as a breadth of well-flowered 
plants is conspicuous for some distance from 
the brightness of their coloring. 
After seeing plants in bloom, at which 
time the sturdy spike carries a large head 
of blossoms one is very apt to be dis- 
appointed in purchasing bulbs, as they are 
sometimes so small as to lead one to think 
that flowers will the following year be 
sought for in vain. It will, however, be 
found that bulbs not more than an inch in 
diameter will flower in a perfectly satisfac- 
tory manner; indeed, bulbs from one and 
a-half inches to two inches in diameter may 
be regarded as very fine. Exception must, 
however, be made in the case of one variety, 
viz., L. Fortunei, as grown in Japan, and 
‘which is sometimes sent to this country in 
the company of Lilium auratum and L. 
speciosum. These Japanese bulbs are the 
largest that have ever come under my ob- 
‘servation, and they yield a corresponding 
wealth of blossoms, the flowers, which are 
rather paler than in some of the others, 
‘being often disposed in a large pyramidal- 
shaped head. The typical Lilium tigrinum 
‘(the Tiger Lily of gardens), which was in- 
troduced from China in 1804, is a well- 
known lily, of which there are at least three 
well-marked varieties in cultivation, all of 
which are readily obtainable from dealers 
during the winter season. 
April 1, 1904 
The first is L. ‘igrinum fore plena, 
which furnishes the best example of) a 
double-flowered lily that we have in culti-. 
vation.. To many, myself among the num- 
ber, the single flower is far more beautiful, 
but still the fact must not be ignored that 
double blossoms are: admired by some. . In 
this form of the tiger lily the flower is com- 
posed of an unusual number of petals, 
which overlap each other in a regular 
manner, and thus form a symmetrical 
bloom. Another example of a double lily 
is the early flowering L. elegans stamino- 
sum, but in this case ‘the interior of the 
cup-shaped bloom is filled with enlarged 
petaloid segments, a totally different ar- 
rangement from that which prevails in the 
donble tiger lily. This last was introduced 
from Japan just over thirty years ago, and 
in a catalogue of that date it is, I ‘see, 
priced at one guinea a bulb. IL. tigrinunt 
splendens, also known as Leopoldi, is the 
next variaty to’ mention, and in some 
respects at least it must be regarded asthe 
finest of them all. It differs a “good deat 
from the ordinary tiger lily in the ‘leaves 
being fewer in number, broader, -less 
woolly, and’ of a deeper green, while‘ the 
stem, which is in the others clothed more or 
less with a whitish wool, is in this variety 
quite smooth aud dark-colored. The flowers 
of splendens, too, are larger and brighter 
colored, while the spots are fewer in num 
ber aud larger. It is also slightly later im 
blooming than the common form. Where 
lilies are grown in pots for conservatory 
decoration, this is far and away the best of 
the tigers for this purpose, as under such 
conditions the foliage is retained better than 
in any of the others, for their leaves are 
liable to go shabby under pot culture. 
Three bulbs may be put in a six-inch pot, 
and in this way they form effective speci- 
mens. 
L. tigrinum Fortunei was alluded to 
above in reference to the large bulbs’ sent 
from Japan. It is the last to flower of the 
tiger lilies, and is characterised by an exces- 
sive woolliness of the leaves and stems. 
The flowers, tuo, are rather paler than the 
rest, and in the case of this large Japanese 
form the distinct pyramidal shape of the 
flower head is another noticeable feature: 
The bulbs are particularly firm and solid, 
hence they stand well the long journey from 
Japan, and reach here in good condition. A 
near ally of the tiger lilies is a pretty 
Japanese species known by the names of L. 
Maximowiczi, L. jucundum, and L. pseudo- 
tigrinum. It is a pleasing, slender-growing 
lily, whuse bright red flowers are thickly 
dotted with aark brown. A distinguishing 
feature of this lily is the absence of bulbils 
in the axils of the leaves, such as occur to a 
greater or lesser extent in all the tiger 
lilies. —W.T. 
DIANTHUS ORIMSON BEDDER. 
This isa rival of Napoleon III., but it 
must be said that it is far inferior, aud its 
only claim to be preferred is that it makes 
plenty of grass and is thus easily propa~ 
gated. 1 recollect seeing it presented fur 
honors at a meeting of a leading horticul- 
tural society—and not receiving them, 
simply because it was neither new nor 
superior to the gloriously colored Napoleon 
TIL—AvY 
