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Above left, A Lilium fargesii flower prior to opening. Centre, Lilium fargesii pods approximately three weeks after peak bloom. Right, Seed capsules of Lilium fargesii. Opposite far left, L. fargesii plant in cold frame. Opposite left, L. fargesii in bud. used in bonsai soil mixes). The components of the growing media all have about the same sized particles except for the peat moss which will break down. These are essentially sterile so some feeding is required, but I rarely fertilize. If I do think of fertilizing I use rain water with dilute 20-20-20. After reading about this lily I wonder if decayed leaf mold mixed with an aggregate would be better. Hybridizing? In 2009 I crossed my L . fargesii with pollen from L . henryi and pods formed. Seeds were collected from the green pods in late August and put into test tube culture. The test tubes were left outside on my porch during the fall of 2009 to experience the typical daily temperature fluctuation and cooling temperatures and sometimes even direct sun, and the seeds germinated outside in the cool. In late autumn the tubes were brought inside and kept under lights during the winter. The seedlings seems to respond to being left outside on my open porch in the spring and summer heat and are still growing well but slowly. Who knows if the cross was successful or if the seeds are just L . fargesii? But I think anything from these pods should be interesting. In 2010, a pair of seed pods formed on the earlier blooming plant, only not from any effort on my part or possibly from the other L . fargesii plant. The photo (above, centre) taken July 27, 2010, shows the pods about 20 days after peak bloom. In October 2010 I put about a dozen candled brown dry open-pollinated seeds from these L . fargesii pods in a small pot under a mulch of vermiculite, watered well, let drain, placed in a plastic baggie and set out on the porch for the fall temperature fluctuations to do its thing. The pot was in occasional morning sun and experienced slightly freezing temperatures. Before the real cold prolonged sub-freezing days, I brought the pot inside and placed it in a cool basement (55- 60F) under lights for about two months. Frustrated with no visible results by midlate December, I put the pot on top of a fluorescent light and forgot about it. In early January 2011, I occasioned a peek while on a phone call to Charlie Kroell and 45
there was a tiny seed on top of a cotyledon! It had to be L . fargesii and not a weed! I put the pot under the lights and within one week two cotyledons had germinated. Farges’ lily seems to like cooling temperature fluctuations to germinate; however, the seed in the potting soil decided to germinate after experiencing a slightly warming condition. E. H. Wilson didn’t think much of L . fargesii, considering it a lily that would only interest collectors. But I, and others, disagree, as the delicacy of this lily combined with the unusual green flowers, with their cristate projections like frosted papillae, suggest that a reappraisal of this lily is long overdue. References Haws, Stephen G. (1986). The Lilies of China. Timber Press. Woodcock, H. Drysdale & Stearn, William T. (1950). Lilies of the World. Country Life. Wood, Mark, (2009). Lily Species Notes and Images CD. 46 ★ ★ ★ Edward Forbes’ Fritillary and others Brian Mathew uses an informative and interesting historical perspective, in his article, to describe the circumstances surrounding the discovery and naming of Fritillaria forbesii . The story of Fritillaria forbesii begins with the arrival of a small ship in south-western Turkey, HM Surveying Ship Beacon, which ‘visited the coast of Lycia in the beginning of January 1842, for the purpose of conveying away the remarkable remains of antiquity discovered at Xanthus [Xanthos] by Sir Charles Fellows’. Captain Graves, and his crew were charged with the task of excavating and removing the marbles, now in the British Museum. In addition to the crew the ship carried The Rev. Mr E. T. Daniell, who had a keen interest in the Lycian countryside and its antiquities, Lieutenant T. A. B. Spratt the ‘assistant surveyor’ and a naturalist, Prof. Edward Forbes, then of King’s College, London. In the two-volume work by Spratt and Forbes, Travels in Lycia (1847) it is noted that ‘Although the journey was commenced with sanguine expectations of success, the results exceeded the hopes entertained by the travellers; for no fewer than eighteen ancient cities, the sites of which had been unknown to geographers, were explored and determined, besides many minor sites’. Sadly Daniell ‘fell a victim
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Page 7 and 8: Contents Lilies of the Julian Alps
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Page 13 and 14: Fritillaria ferganensis Fritillaria
Page 15 and 16: Fritillaria ussuriensis Fritillaria
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Page 21 and 22: Figure 3. Seedlings in 5 inch pots
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Page 25 and 26: 18 David Parsons and his wife Mary.
Page 27 and 28: Sandy Best, a well-known Canadian p
Page 29 and 30: Lilium polyphyllum phenological stu
Page 31 and 32: sites were marked and 10 individual
Page 33 and 34: Close up of Lilium polyphyllum flow
Page 35 and 36: ground bulb at different phenophase
Page 37 and 38: John Muir’s eloquent description
Page 39 and 40: three years before its dainty bells
Page 41 and 42: orange and red-orange at varying lo
Page 43 and 44: Lilium bulbiferum var. chaixii Lili
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Page 47 and 48: 40 Disease control Perhaps in moder
Page 49 and 50: colonies, are being made on a yearl
Page 51: the first plant having bloomed out
Page 55 and 56: squill (which he noted as S. bifoli
Page 57 and 58: Lilium canadense hybrid. L. martago
Page 59 and 60: Above, Lilium cernuum, same species
Page 61 and 62: Nomocharis gongshanensis Y. D. Gao
Page 63 and 64: photograph © Yun-Dong Gao Nomochar
Page 65 and 66: above southernmost distributional l
Page 67 and 68: Lilium rubellum on Gorin-Daira, Shi
Page 69 and 70: Above , Example flowers of the natu
Page 71 and 72: Above, Stable Lilium japonicum popu
Page 73 and 74: First there was the Rose Phase. I d
Page 75 and 76: A group of Lilium carniolicum in th
Page 77 and 78: throw stones to attract my quarry
Page 79 and 80: a week or two away from flowering.
Page 81 and 82: 74 Timothy Whiteley, OBE, DL, JP Ca
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Page 85 and 86: 78 The beginnings of a national col
Page 87 and 88: ‘Angela’ ‘Rosemary’ collect
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Page 91 and 92: 6 Chinese lilies (Ch) from species
Page 93 and 94: ecause they looked alike. In the mo
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Page 99 and 100: and flowers dangle. Streptopus, or
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Lilium mackliniae 96 A guide to bas
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A Ryirube hybrid Lilium primulinum
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lily and does well in my garden. I
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Lily seed Lily seed is transparent
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Mike Kune and Wade Hall (right) sco
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Lilium pyrophilum bulbs. divided in
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108 In search of Lilium ledebourii
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A bulb and scales of Lilium ledebou
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Habitat of Lilium ledebourii. 112
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Lilium duchartrei situations was no
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Fritillaria affinis 91 albidiflora
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118 Guidelines for authors Contribu
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