. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 5o6 L iliacece—L ilium. spicatum, in which the flowers are abortive and replaced by white petaloid bracts. 6. L. Washingtonianum. —A very beautiful species of quite recent introduction. It grows about 3 to 5 feet high, and is distinguished from all others of this group by the short spreading lanceolate 1-nerved glabrous leaves being arranged in regular
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 5o6 L iliacece—L ilium. spicatum, in which the flowers are abortive and replaced by white petaloid bracts. 6. L. Washingtonianum. —A very beautiful species of quite recent introduction. It grows about 3 to 5 feet high, and is distinguished from all others of this group by the short spreading lanceolate 1-nerved glabrous leaves being arranged in regular whorls of 10 or 12. Flowers slightly nodding, from 12 to 18 in a raceme, on long pedicels, white tinged with lilac or purple, very fragrant. A native of the western slopes of theSierraNevadarange in California, and most likely quite hardy in Britain. 7. L. tigrinu'in, syn. L. speoidsum (Andrews, not of Thrmberg) (fig, 248).—The Tiger Lily is one of the most distinct, and after the White Lily the one most commonly seen. It is distinguished from the allied species by the purplish cottony stems ; linear sessile 5- to 7-nerved leaves usually with round black bulblets in their axils. Flowers bright orange-red with purplish-black spots. A native of Japan and China, and quite hardy iu this country. L. Fortunei is a magnificent robust variety from G to 10 feet high and bearing from 30 to 40 flowers on each stem. There is also a handsome double-flowered variety in cultivation. 8. L. specidsum, Thun- berg, syn. L. lancifdlmm of Paxton, not of Thunberg.—This beautiful species usually bears the latter name in gardens. Stem glabrous, from 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, shortly petiolate, 1^. Fig. 248. Lilium tigl'inum. (J nafc. size.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hemsley, W. Bottin
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