96 TIGER FLOWER. [April. 



AMARYLLIS FORMOSISSIMA, OR JACOBEA LILY. 



About the end of this or beginning of next month is the 

 most proper time for planting out these bulbs. This flower 

 is of the most beautiful and rich crimson velvet colour. 

 The bulb generally produces two stems, the one after the 

 other, about the end of May or first of June. The stem is 

 from nine inches to one foot high, surmounted by a single 

 flower, composed of six petals, three hanging down, three 

 erect and recurved ; the stamens droop on the .centre of 

 the under petals. The flower thus appears nodding on 

 one side of the stem, and has a most graceful and charm- 

 ing appearance. If planted in a bed, prepare the ground 

 as before directed for Tuberoses. Keep the rows one foot 

 asunder, and the bulbs six inches apart in the rows, cover- 

 ing them two inches over their crowns. This plant is now 

 called Spreikelia formosissima, and we think properly, 

 too, for its character and habit differ from Amaryllis. ^ 



We have not the smallest doubt, that in a few years, not 

 only this superb South American bulb will adorn our flower 

 gardens, but many of the rich bulbs of Brazil and South 

 America generally will yearly exhibit to us the beauty of 

 their colours, and the beautiful construction of their flowers 

 and foliage, of which we are now generally deprived, per- 

 haps because we have not the conveniency of a proper 

 hot-house for their protection during winter. But it will 

 be found, in many instances, that these bulbs will do per- 

 fectly well to be kept dry in a warm room from October to 

 May, when the heat of our summer is sufficient for the 

 perfection of their flowers, and many species will ripen 

 their seeds. The bulb that is known as Amaryllis Bel- 

 ladonna, now called Belladonna purpufdscens, is hardy. 



TIGER FLOWER. 



Tigridia, a genus of Mexican bulbs belonging to Mona- 

 delphia Tridndria, producing the most beautiful flowers of 

 the natural order of Irideae. T. pavonia is of the bright- 

 est scarlet, tinged and spotted with pure yellow. T. 

 conchiflora, colour rich yellow, tinged and spotted with 



