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rround, and do not come up till after the flowcr- 

 stcm appears, which is geiierallv in November ; 

 and after the flowers are past, the leaves increa.-e 

 till spring, and in Mav they begin to decav, so 

 that from the middle of June to October the plant 

 is void of leaves. It grows naturally at the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



In the tenth species, or Gucrnsev Lilv, the bulb 

 is an oblong spheroid, flatted most at the lower 

 end, six or seven inches round where thickest : 

 the leaves are of a dark willow green cHilour, shin- 

 ing, from half an inch to three quarters of an inch 

 in breadth, a little blunt at the end, from two to 

 four in number, rarely five. The scape is flat- 

 tened, twelve or fourteen inches in height, and 

 more. The spathe splits, and falls back in two 

 imequal pieces of a reddish colour and triangular 

 figure. The pedicels are from an inch to almost 

 two inches in length. The number of flowers 

 commonlv from eight to twelve, the circum- 

 ference of each beins: about seven inches. 'I'be 

 corolla, when in its prime, has the colour of a 

 fine gold tissue wrought on a rose-coloured 

 ^ound ; and w-hen it begins to fade, it is a pink : 

 if beheld in a full sun-shine, it seems to be stud- 

 ded with diamonds, but bv candle-light the specks 

 or spajiffles look more like fine gold dust : when 

 the petals begin to wither, they assume a deep 

 crimson colour. The flowers begin to come out 

 at the end of August, and the head is usually 

 three weeks in gradually expanding itself. This 

 beautiful plant is a native of Japan, and has been 

 long naturalized in Guemsev. 



The eleventh species has the stature of the 

 Crinum Americanum. The leaves are fleshv, 

 scabrous with a loothleted edge. The spathe 

 bivalve, besides some interior scales or fragments. 

 The germs are sessile. The tube of the corolla 

 of the same colour with the scape, which is ru- 

 fous. The border white, with lanceolate, re- 

 curved petals, with a red keel underneath. The 

 filaments and style are of a blood-red colour, 

 and the pericarps viviparous. 



The twelfth has roots like the Crinum mentioned 

 below- : the leaves narrower at their base, and 

 stained with purple on their under side; the 

 scapes purple, and growing to the same height 

 as those of the Crinum Asiaticum ; the flowers of 

 the same shape, but the tube purple, and the seg- 

 ments having a purple stripe running through 

 them : the stamina are also purple ; it is however 

 more beautiful than that plant. This is a native 

 of the East Indies. 



Culturt. — In all the dilTercnt sorts, the pro- 

 pasration is performed by the small bulbs or 

 offsets that are remo\ed from the sides of the 

 old roots everv year at the time they are trans- 

 planted. Some of the sorls^ as the first and 



second, are often capable of being raised on dry 

 \\ arm borders ; but most of the others stand in 

 need of artificial heat to raise them in the most 

 perfect manner. 



The)- all deliirht in a loose, sandv,dn' soil, that 

 contains a 'jnoJ proportion of vegetable mould ; 

 and rcquireliiu little water, except where the root* 

 are in a high state of growth and sending forth 

 their flower-stems ; when they should have it fre- 

 quenllv in «mall quantities. When applied under 

 other circumstance?, il is apt to rot and destroy 

 the bulbs. 



All the more tender forts should be put in 

 pots, and placed in stoves, where they must be 

 constantly kept ; as much air as possible being 

 admitted to them duringthe hot summermomhs. 

 Some of them are, however, capable of bearing 

 the open air at this season : but in this method 

 of management they neither grow so well, or 

 flower so regularly, as in the stove mode of treat- 

 ment. 



The piost suitable season for transplantii^ the 

 roots of all the different species, is at the time 

 when their leaves are wholly destroyed, as about 

 the latter end of Julv, or the beginnintr of the 

 following month, before they bcgii^ to send forth 

 new root-fibres, as after that has taken place 

 they are liable to be greatly injured by being re- 

 moved from their situations. 



The first kind, or Yellow Autunmal Amaryllis, 

 is a hardy plant, and may be increased with great 

 facility bv offsets from the roots. The best sea- 

 son for transplanting the root-bulbs of this son 

 is anv time from Mav to the end of Julv, when 

 their leaves are decayed : but after that period it 

 will be loo late to remove them, as thcv mostly 

 begin to push out fresh root-fibres about the mid- 

 dle of August or sooner, if the season be moist and 

 warm, frequently ilowering the begiiuiing of Sep- 

 tember; so that, if the business of transplanting 

 be performed so late as this, it will spoil their 

 flcwering. This plant is capable of grow inir in 

 any soil or situation ; but it tliri\es to the best 

 advantage in those of the above kind, when suf- 

 ficiently fresh and light, and in open situations, 

 that are not under the dripping of trees, or too 

 near walls, or other tall feiic-sthat product much 

 shade. Miller observes that it is connnonly know n 

 to gardeners by the name of Yellow Autumnal 

 Narcissus; and usually sold by them with Calehi- 

 cimis for autumnal ornaments to garilens ; for 

 which purpose it is a pretty plant, as it will fre- 

 quently keep flowering from the beginning of 

 September to the middle of November, in case 

 the frost is not so severe as to destroy the flowers ; 

 for though there is but one flower in eieh cover, 

 a succession of fl.)wers is produced from the 

 same root, especially when they arc suffered to 



