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hybrids, the next generation was practically the same, showing a mar- 
vellous prepotency in the original pollen-parent. 
By choosing suitable parents I have had no difficulty in breeding 
brilliant reds with a clear white edge to every division of the perianth ; 
but to do this I have had to use some of the old varieties; and though 
I have worked the broad-petalled varieties with this pollen, and have 
retained the marking, the blooms, on the other hand, retain the form of 
the pollen-parent to a large degree. 
Seeing that the top division of the perianth is always the largest and 
best-coloured, I generally use the anther, the filament of which is adnate 
to this division ; whether this be the reason or not I do not know, but 
the progeny generally have more equal divisions to the perianth, and the 
bottom division is greatly improved. 
On the other hand, with a view to getting as white a bloom as 
possible, I use the bottom division (generally all white) from the white 
red-striped varieties; and in the seedlings the flowers have much less 
colour ; but the shape of the bloom is spoilt, the divisions being narrow. 
_ With us most hippeastrums are garden plants doing well out of doors ; 
but H. pardinum is a greenhouse plant, in fact is often grown in a hot- 
house ; it is, however, very potent as a pollen plant, and using its pollen 
on red-coloured Veitch hybrids I have raised what is practically a hardy 
H. pardinum, which has stood out of doors and flowered fairly well for 
two or three years. 
My hippeastrums (with the exception of H. pardinum) are all garden 
varieties, and so contain the blood of many ancestors ; hence it is impos- 
sible to expect any precise results ; still, in working, I hope for a result 
in some of the progeny partaking of both immediate parents, and it is 
remarkable how often the result is as sought, notwithstanding my rough 
methods. 
Here my method is similar. I cut off an anther with its filament, 
holding the filament; there is no difficulty in dusting the pollen on the 
pistil of the seed bloom, and here, again, the blooms were never covered 
or protected in any way. 
GLORIOSA. 
G. Plantii grows like a weed here out of doors, increasing very fast 
both from the tubers and from seed; but under the same conditions 
G. superba is difficult, and in ten years I have only had two blooms, so I 
conceived the idea of getting a G. superba with the constitution of 
G. Plantii by crossing G. Plantii with pollen of G. superba and succeeded 
in the first attempt. Most of the seedlings took after G. swperba in habit, 
colour of stem, and foliage, and the blooms also, though perhaps not quite 
so large; a few were repetitions of G. Plantii; these latter were fertile, 
while those taking after G. swperba have so far been sterile, though they 
have been blooming for five years and have been tried with pollen of 
G. superba, G. Piantii, and G. Rothschildiana. All of these seedlings 
are quite hardy and do well out of doors, flower freely, and increase 
rapidly from the tubers. 
Here my method of working is to cut off an anther and holding this 
