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The  Tigridia  or  Tiger  flower  must  not  be  confounded  with  the  Tiger 
Lily.  The  former  belongs  to  the  family  of  the  Irids,  as  its  other  name  of 
Iris  Lily  indicates,  while  the  Tiger  Lilies,  the  Lilium  tigrinum  of 
Tigridias  may  be  propagated  from  offsets,  and  grown  in 
beds  in  the  open  ground  like  other  hardy  bulbous  plants.  It 
is  not  advisable  to  move  the  plants  after  they  have  ceased 
flowering,  but  the  flower  stalks  should  be  cut  and  the  foliage 
allowed  to  die,  then,  with  suitable  enrichment  of  the  soil,  the 
bulbs  will  grow  and  flower  annually.  Some  growers,  however,  lift 
the  bulbs  in  the  autumn  with  balls  of  soil,  put  them  into  pots  and 
Fig.  93.— tigridias  PAVONIA  AND  CONCHIPLORA. 
botanists,  are  included  within  the  order  of  Liliaceous  plants.  The 
Tigridias  are  natives  of  Mexico,  and  have  now  formed  a  feature  in 
English  gardens  for  nearly  a  century.  The  leaves  are  large,  clustering 
round  flower  stalks  of  about  a  foot  in  height,  on  which  appear  flowers 
as  large  as  the  largest  Irises,  arrayed  in  the  most  brilliant  combinations 
of  orange,  red  and  yellow.  Their  magnificence  endures  when  the 
succession  is  well  maintained  from  the  latter  part  of  May  until 
September,  but  individually  the  flowers  do  not  last  long. 
let  them  stand  in  a  cold  pit  until  they  can  be  planted  in  the  following 
year. — F.  Rowe. 
[In  the  collection  of  hardy  flowers  shown  by  Messrs.  Barr  &  Sons  at 
the  Crystal  Palace  were  some  beautiful  examples  of  these  brilliant 
flowers.  T.  pavonia,  the  peacock  flowered  variety,  and  T.  conchiflora, 
the  shell  flowered  form,  are  depicted  in  the  illustration  (fig.  93).  The 
former  is  a  combination  of  red,  yellow,  and  purple,  and  the  latter  of  dark 
and  light  yellow  and  purple.] 
