AN HORTICULTURAL QUERY

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 9, 2 March 1925, Page 45

AN HORTICULTURAL QUERY

A reader writes to us as follows: — T HAVE a very wonderful plant growing in my garden. It has only flowered twice in 25 years. It is something like a flax bush; it has taken quite a year to come into flower. First it threw up four long stems, like green poles, 18 feet high, then large sorts of buds, a dark brown colour, formed, which looked like an Indian's turbaned head perched on the top of a pole. After some time the buds slowly opened and a most gorgeous deep red flower appeared, like a number of lilies grouped closely together. This plant has caused quite a sensation. Scores of passers-by stop at the gate to look at it every day. Everyone is most curious to know what it is. I have made a rough sketch of it. Possibly some of our readers who have a wider horticultural knowledge than the present writer can help our correspondent. Editor.