Plate 38:5. 

 AMARYLLIS, PRINCE TEGK. 



Among those flowers to which more attention has been paid 

 on the Continent than in this country, is the Amaryllis, it being 

 very largely used in room decoration, for which its large, 

 showy flowers, of great substance, make it admirahly suited. 

 Bowever, of late years it has come more into favour, although 

 even now there is no establishment in this country which can 

 compete with some of those in Belgium and France, where 

 thousands of them are grown and a large number of seedlings 

 produced every year. 



At the- International Horticultural Exhibition, some verj 

 tine varieties were produced, and a stimulus thereby given to 

 their growth, which, we trust, will result in greater attention 

 being given to them ; and we have seen, in our visits to various 

 nurseries, such as Mr. Williams's, of Holloway, Mr. Cutbush's, 

 of Highgate, Mr. Veitch's, of Chelsea, and others, very fine 

 plants. We are indebted to the latter well-known firm for the 

 opportunity of figuring the very fine variety in our Plate, of 

 which Mr. Harry Veitch says, "It is an English-raised seedling, 

 of which we purchased the entire stock, and for colouring, size 

 of bloom, and shape, bears comparison witli any kinds we have 

 yel seen from the Continent." The colour of the ground is a 

 soft creamy yellow, which runs down in a narrow hand through 

 the centre' of each petal. The edges of the petals are deep 

 ranuine-crinison, and singularly marked with netted lines n! 

 ih,' same colour, a narrow line of it being continued along each 

 side of the yellow hand in the centre. Altogether it is a re- 

 markably tine flower. 



Some doubts were expressed as to the correctness of the 

 figure given in oui las! volume of Eippeastrvm pardinum, as 



