AMARYLLIS JOHNS ONI. 



Nat. OuiH-:tt -AMAKYLL1DE&— LtttDLEY. 



Ploweh-btbm aboul sixteen inches high, much striated wilh dark purple, 

 and very glaucous — leave* dnrk, luxuriant, autl a good dual variegated, 

 operiully Inward* the points— corolla of a dark blood-red colour, with a 

 fringed ucctarv in I he throat spallie brown -number of flowers varying from 



four to eight* 



Tins Lily is sufficiently vvorlhy of distinction from its splendid appear- 

 ance, Imt Mill more so, as being the tirst hybritl Amaryllis on record* and 

 having caused many learned disputes on the subject, for the investigation of 

 which, those who are interested arc referred to a Paper by .1- It. Gowen, 

 Esq. published in the Horticultural Transaction$ $ ml 4. />. 498 ; to the 

 several J2**«f/* by the* Honourable W. Hkrhkkt: and a Paper by .Mr. 

 LcfpLEY, Horticultural Transaction*! ruL'y.p. 337. Hybrid plants of every 

 possible degree and variety of mixture are now become so general and nume- 

 rous, that it seems equally vain and useless to attempt to trace their parentage 

 in every instance; and runny seedlings from Amaryllis Regime ami others have 

 obtained the appellation of "Johnsonian." The prototype is said to have been 

 tirst raised about the year I7!M>, from the seed of Vittata impregnated with 

 Formosis*ima, by Mr Johnson, a maker of gold hands for watches, hi the 

 town of Present, ami the present specimen is from one of the Original bnlhs. 

 presented by Mr, Johnson to the late Edwahd Fw.knick, Esu. of Fairfield, 

 near Liverpool. The striped markings of the stem and leaves OW ft pretty 

 constant characteristic of the true tlolmsuni. 





