Capt. Kingdon Ward, the Himalaya explorer, who about 25 years ago for a time was a master in the Thomas Hanbury School in Shanghai, has sent home from the Eastern Himalayas where he hes been exploring for six months a piece of news that has-thrilled Kew to the core. It had been supposed that every species of lily in existence was now known. Capt Kingdon Ward writes that he has found a brand mew species, "a beautiful plant with magnificent trumpet flowers, yellow, four inches long and four across."
He has also found 30 rhododendron and two species of dozen new primulas. But of course the lily is the thing. Nowadays lily-growing bids fair to oust orchids. It is nearly as difficult and one can spend a mint of money on it.
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