162 BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
size of a pigeon’s egg, they were planted in a bed for blooming. This 
was in 1869. Towards midsummer, one of the young hybrids showed 
a large flower-bud, much like that of its male parent, L. auratum. The 
rest, about fifty in all, showed no buds until some time after; and when 
the buds at length appeared, they were precisely like those of the female 
parent, L. speciosum. The first bud opened on the seventh of August, 
and proved a magnificent flower, nine and a half inches in diameter, 
resembling L. auratum in fragrance and form, and the most brilliant 
varieties of L. speciosum in color. In the following year, it measured 
nearly twelve inches from tip to tip of the extended petals, and in 
England it has since reached fourteen inches. A colored plate of it 
will be found in the “ Florist and Pomologist ” of March, 1876, and 
engravings of it have appeared in the “ Gardener’s Chronicle” and 
other horticultural publications. The stock has been placed in the 
hands of Mr. Anthony Waterer, the distinguished nurseryman, who 
has given it the name of L. Parkmanni. In this one instance, the 
experiment had been a great success; but of the remaining fifty 
hybrids, not one produced a flower in the least distinguishable from 
that of the pure L. speciosum. ‘Lhe influence of the alien pollen was 
shown, as before noticed, in the markings of the stem, and also in a 
diminished power of seed-bearing ; but this was all. 
In the next year, wishing to see if the male parent would not make 
his influence appear more distinctly in the second generation, I fertil- 
ized several of these fifty hybrids, with the pollen of L. auratum, pre- 
cisely as their female parent had been fertilized. The crop of seed 
was extremely scanty, but there was enough to produce eight or ten 
young bulbs. Of these, when they bloomed, one bore a flower com- 
bining the features of both parents; but, though large, it was far in- 
ferior to L. Parkmanni in form and color. The remaining flowers 
were not distinguishable from those of the pure L. speciosum. 
While making these experiments with L. speciosum and L. auratum, 
I made similar attempts to produce hybrids of other lilies. In the 
spring of 1867, I planted twenty or more strong bulbs of L. superbum 
in a favorable spot, and, when they began to bloom, fertilized them 
with the pollen of L. speciosum, L. auratum, L. tigrinum, L. chalce- 
donicum, L. umbellatum, L. Thunbergianum, L. longiflorum, and L. 
tenuifolium. All the anthers were previously removed before ripen- 
ing, by slitting the sides of the still unopened bud and extracting them 
