AFllICAN LILY. 5 



flowers will begin to open ; when, unless the weather be 

 very fine, they should be housed, that they may not be 

 injured by too much wet, or by frost ; but they must be 

 allowed as much fresh air as possible. During the winter 

 they may have a little water once a week in mild weather, 

 but none in frost. This flower must be watered only at 

 the roots. 



ALMOND TREE. 



AMYGDALA. 



ROSACEjS. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYN'IA. 



The Almond-tree ! the lofty Almond-tree a potted plant ! 

 the Almond tree, to which Spenser, in an exquisite passage, 

 likens the plume of Prince Arthur : 



" Upon the top of all, his lofty crest, 



A bunch of hairs discolour'd tliversly. 



With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest. 



Did shake, and seem'd to dance for jolUty. 



Like to an almond- tree y mounted high 



On top of green Selinis all alone, 



^Vith blossoms brave bedecked daintily. 



Whose tender locks do tremble every one 

 At every little breath that under heaven is blown." 



No, it is not this immortal Almond-tree that is to be 

 moved at pleasure from the garden to a room or balcony ; 

 but a Russian cousin, the Bobownik, Dikii Persik, or Cal- 

 myzkii Orech [Calmuck almond] ; but called by the Cal- 

 mucks themselves, CharunOrak, a young Tartar of humble 

 growth, though emulating his great relation in the elegance 

 of his apparel. He is called the Dwarf Almond tree ; and 

 is worthy to have derived his name from the transforma- 

 tion of some dwarf in a fairy tale into a tree. In April 

 the young shoots of this tree are covered with blossoms of 

 a beautiful blush-colour; and the leaves are sometimes 



