The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Calochortus (Baker enumerates twenty-one)

Baker enumerates twenty-one, and S. Watson thirty-two, species of this genus, natives of North (mostly Western) America, extending as far as Mexico. To the varieties of C. venustus described on p. 245, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. venustus roseus (rose-coloured). fl. white inside, with a distinct, red spot on each segment, purplish-rose outside. l. short, bluish-green. 1886.

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