AMARYL'LIS LU'TEA. 



YELLOW AMARYLLIS. 

 Class. . Order. 



HEXANDRIA. MONOGVNIA. 



Natural Order. 



AMARYLLIDE*;. 



N 2 



Amaryllis, the name of a shepherdess in Theo- 

 critus and Virgil. Lutea, yellow, its colour. It is 

 sometimes called Autumnal Narcissus. 



Known as this hardy, fast-increasing-, plant has 

 been for two or three hundred years, it is remark- 

 able that it should not be nearly as common as our 

 yellow crocus, to which, at first sight, it appears so 

 closely allied. But it is not the harbinger of spring : 

 it does not excite the delightful sensations which 

 every daisy, every buttercup of that joyous season, 

 is calculated to arouse. 



" What lovely prospects wait each wakening- hour, 

 When each new day some novelty displays; 



How sweet the sunheam melts the crocus flower, 

 Whose borrowed pride shines dizen'd in his rays." 



CLARE. 



It grows well in almost any soil or situation, ex- 

 cept under the dripping of trees ; for as its bulbs 

 are reproduced but slowly, during the severity of 

 winter, the leaves continue to increase till spring ; 

 at which time the bulbs will become fully matured, 

 and the leaves will die. Transplanting may then 

 be performed with propriety, till vegetation is re- 

 assumed in July. 



Alton's Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. 2. p. 223. 



