LILIUM WASHINGTONIANUM.
This ve>ry rare Californian lily is not w«ll known in Australasia, b«i»v3 limited in stock, and this in tli© han'ta of only one or two people. it grow* 3ft to sft high. The flowers ate tw«j to three inches long and three mcl»« across. The smaller stems have one flower, and the number of flowora on a spiko vary aooording to the eize of the bulbs, so that among a number of plants in bloom th«ro may bi? Mpikiw vHh one, three, five, and up to fifteen
blooms..' The stems have from fivo wj ten frills or whorls of d*rk Ifaves, so fliat stoins with one or met*tl flowers are very ueeful for cutting hp decoration, fboy last well in The flowers -which bloom in mideumtnejr ; white, tungedi with pink or and are wry fragrant. Johll tho well-known horticulture! enthusiast, exhibited several spikte of this choice lilium at the Ne\r Zealand International Exhibition Rose Show, and tins novelty proved to be one of the centres cf attraction among the visitors to the show. A photograph of theeo blooms wae rpprod,,oed in the' "Gardeners , Magaeine " of March 23ra last.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12849, 6 July 1907, Page 7
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