. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). FEEESIA THE BULB BOOK FKEESIA bulbs or corms with, fibrous coats, flat, narrow, rigid leaves, and tubular bell-shaped flowers borne on slender wiry stems, often 2 ft. high in well- cultivated specimens. P. refracta {Gladiolus refractus; Tritcmia refracta). — Introduced in 1815 from S. Africa, this species and its varieties
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). FEEESIA THE BULB BOOK FKEESIA bulbs or corms with, fibrous coats, flat, narrow, rigid leaves, and tubular bell-shaped flowers borne on slender wiry stems, often 2 ft. high in well- cultivated specimens. P. refracta {Gladiolus refractus; Tritcmia refracta). — Introduced in 1815 from S. Africa, this species and its varieties are greater favourites in. Fig. 142.—Jfreesia refracta. gardens than ever. The typical species has ovoid corms, having thickish fibrous or netted coats, and produce five to six narrow leaves. The roundish, slender, flexuose stems, 1 to 1^ ft. high, bear several yellowish- white, tubular, sweet-scented flowers, sometimes striped or tinted with pale violet, and usually spotted with orange at the base of the segments. (Hed. Lil. t. 415; Bot. Reg. t. 135; Jacq. Ic. t. 241.) There are several varieties, the best known being alha, having fine white flowers without the yellow blotches seen in the type; Armstrongi, intro- duced to Kew in 1898 from Port Elizabeth by Mr W. Armstrong, after whom it was named by Mr W. Watson, in the Gardeners' Chronicle. It has branching scapes, about 20 ins. high, and white flowers splashed with orange at the base and heavily bordered with rich rose; LeicMlini, with large pale citron-yellow flowers blotched with yellow ochre {Gartenfl. t. 808); odorata (formerly called Tritonia odorata), with bright yellow flowers {Bot. Gab. ); Tuhergeni, soft carmine rose, a large-flowered hybrid between F. refracta alha and F. Armstrongi. In addition to these, which may be regarded as natural varieties, many charming forms have been raised from seed during recent years. Judging by the range of colour indicated above, it is not surprising that some remarkably
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