Tupa, 175; Bridgesii, 176; Feuillei, ib.
Turk's-cap lily, 296.

Spring flower-gardening, capabilities of Twin-flower, the, 143.

Trillium, 301; grandiflorum, 302; pendu- Wolf's-bane, S.

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