. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. the comparatively poorHyacinthns orientalis may be pointed to as examples of whathas been done by selection, etc., with a plant very closelyrelated to Lachenalias. PLemanthus multiflorus.—This is one of the most beau-tiful of the thirty-eight species of Haemanthus now known, itslarge umbel of rich crimson flowers with golden anthers beingvery handsome. In one of the stoves at Kew there is a plantof it now bearing an umbel eight inches through composed ofabout sixty flowers, each an inch and a half long, with linearrefl
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. the comparatively poorHyacinthns orientalis may be pointed to as examples of whathas been done by selection, etc., with a plant very closelyrelated to Lachenalias. PLemanthus multiflorus.—This is one of the most beau-tiful of the thirty-eight species of Haemanthus now known, itslarge umbel of rich crimson flowers with golden anthers beingvery handsome. In one of the stoves at Kew there is a plantof it now bearing an umbel eight inches through composed ofabout sixty flowers, each an inch and a half long, with linearreflexed segments, and stellately arranged stamens one anda half inches long. The scape is scarcely a foot in length, andit precedes the leaves, springing from the centre of a globosebulb three inches in diameter. This and H. Kalbeyeri, , H. tenuiflorus and H. filiflorus are all alike orvery nearly so. It is quite tropical, and should not be keptdry at any time. H. multiflorus was introduced many yearsago, but it has never found much favor, because of its bad. Fig- 37-—Enceplialartos Frederici Guilielmi.—See page 2o3. aware, nowhere are Lachenalias grown so successfully as atGlasnevin, the spikes of flowers produced there being al-most as strong as Hyacinths and the substance of the flowersalmost as great. Such kinds as L. tricolor, L. Nelsoni, , L. aurea, L. pallida, L. orthopetala and L. pen-dula Mr. Moore can produce with spikes a foot long, the stalksas thick as a mans little finger, and the flowers correspond-ingly large. As commonly seen, Lachenalias are not good gar-den plants, but no one who saw the fine examples with whichMr. Moores lecture was illustrated would deny to them a placeamong the very best of early spring-flowering bulbous plantsfor the greenhouse. A considerable number of hybrids havebeen raised, some of them by Mr. Moore himself, the bestof them being L. Nelsoni, which was obtained by crossing with L. tricolor about ten
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