14 ON THE CULTURE OF THE GUERNSEY LILY. 



ARTICLE VI.— On the Cultivation of the Amaryllis 

 Sarniensis, or Guernsey Lily. By Snowdrop. 



Notwithstanding Gulielmus has sent you some observations 

 and directions on the culture of the Guernsey Lily, I am induced 

 to place at your disposal an extract of the mode adopted by Mr. 

 Knight, F.H.S., as recorded in the 6th Volume of the Horticul- 

 tural Transactions. The cultivator will, at all events, have a 

 choice of operation, and if one plan fails, the other may prove 

 successful : — 



" A bulb of the Guernsey Lily, which had flowered in the 

 autumn of 1822, was placed in a stove as soon as its blossoms had 

 withered, in a high temperature, and damp atmosphere. It was 

 planted in very rich compost, and was amply supplied with water, 

 which held manure in solution. Thus circumstanced, the bulb, 

 which was placed in the front of a curvilinear roofed stove, emitted 

 much luxuriant foliage, which continued in a perfectly healthy 

 state till spring. Water was then given in smaller and gradually 

 reduced quantities till the month of May, when the pot in which 

 il grew was removed into the open air. In the beginning of 

 August the plant, flowered strongly, and produced several offsets. 

 These, with the exception of one, were removed ; and the plant, 

 being treated precisely as in the preceding season, flowered again 

 in August 1824. In the autumn of that year it was again trans- 

 ferred to the stove, and subjected to the same treatment ; and in the 

 latter end of the following summer, both bulbs flowered in the same 

 pot with more than ordinary strength, the one flower-stem sup- 

 porting eighteen, and the other nineteen large blossoms. One of 

 these flowered in the beginning of August, when its blossoms were 

 exposed to the sun and air during the day, and protected by a 

 covering of glass during the night, by which mode of treatment 

 I hoped to obtain seeds ; but the experiment was not successful. 

 The blossoms of the other bulb appeared in the latter end of 

 August, and were placed in the same situation in the stove, which 

 the bulb had occupied in the preceding winter ; and I by these 

 means obtained three apparently perfect seeds. One of these, the 

 smallest, and seemingly the least perfect, was placed immediately 

 in a pot in a stove, where it produced a plant." 



Snowdrop, 



