Plate 319. 

 ANTHUEIUM SCUEliZEllIANUM, 



Wo liave many valid reasons for figuring this fine plant, 

 although it has been introdueed as long back as ISCi'i (at the 

 same time as Lilium auratum) ; several of our subscribers have 

 expressed a wish to have a good figure of it, it is now becom- 

 ing a really popular flower, owing to large importations of it 

 having taken place, its cultixation is better understood, and, as 

 a consequence, the figures which have already appeared of it 

 by no means adequately represent its beauty. 



Anthurhim Schcrzeriamnn was first figured in the ' Botanical 

 Magazine,' where the spatlie was represented as an inch and 

 one-eighth in length, and three-quarters of an inch in breadth. 

 In the ' Florist and Pomologist,' for October, 18G5, it was 

 again figured, wliere that in the ' Botanical Magazine ' was 

 spoken of as ludicrously inferior, and a reference made to their 

 o^vn plate, where it was represented as three inches in length, 

 and one and seven-eighths in breadth. Since that period, how- 

 ever, owing to the success that has attended its cultivation, the 

 beauty of the flower has been greatly developed, and it is now 

 no uncommon thing to see it at Mr. Veitch's, to whom we are 

 indebted for the opportunity of figuring the plant, with several 

 flowers, each of which measures four inches, and sometimes 

 even more, in length, by three in breadth. 



We are informed at Messrs. Veitch's that the plan adopted 

 in its cultivation is to grow it as a stove plant during the 

 winter months, and then bring it into a cooler house for bloom- 

 ing, where for months it continues to be an object of great 

 interest and beauty, — one remarkable characteristic of it being 

 the great persistency of the flowers, which remain for a period 

 of six and seven weeks without showing the slightest symptom 



