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succession of flowers may be produced during every 
month in the year. When the dormant bulbs are in- 
tended to be thrown into bloom, they should be potted 
in sandy loam and leaf mold, and put in a warm place, 
kept rather dry, and covered with leaves until the pots 
are filled with roots, when they may be exposed to the 
light and allowed to grow on, with an increase of tem- 
perature if possible. In most portions of the South they 
are entirely hardy, and can be grown in the open ground 
without much care. It is only where they are needed 
for pot or greenhouse decoration that they should be 
grown in pots. The writer had charge for several years 
of the finest private collection of Amaryllis in England, 
at Storrs, Windermere. A number of handsome green- 
houses especially erected for their culture were continu- 
ally attractive by the new seedlings as they from time to 
time burst into bloom, besides hundreds of the finest 
varieties of other raisers that money could procure. 
Numbers of handsome varieties were raised every year 
and the stock was always held as a private treasure, that 
no amount of money could buy. A variety of a few 
dozen plants named Storrs’ Beauty had frequent offers 
of five and seven thousand dollars, all of which were 
promptly refused, as this was a case where plants were 
more highly prized than money. But since the death of 
the proprietor, the Rev. Thos. Staniforth, we have com- 
pletely lost sight of this collection. They are easily 
propagated from seed, it taking from two to three years 
for the seedlings to bloom from time of sowing. They 
are also propagated by offsets and by division of the 
bulbs. Thrip and Red Spider sometimes infests the 
leaves, and this can only be checked by frequent syring- 
ings and sponging the under side of the leaf. There are 
several varieties in this class that it is not important to 
