IMPROVING THE AMARYLLIS 



WONDERFUL NEW BLOSSOMS NEARLY A 

 FOOT IN WIDTH 



I TAKE it that a flower ten to twelve inches 

 across occupies about the relative position 

 among flowers that a man ten to twelve feet 

 high would occupy among men. 



Doubtless you have never seen a ten-foot 

 giant, for I believe there is no record of any 

 human being of that size. And presume that you 

 have never seen a ten-inch flower, unless one of 

 my giant amaryllis blossoms has come to your 

 attention. 



At all events, it is rare indeed that any flower 

 here in the temperate zone attains even approxi- 

 mately such a size. The blossoms of some of my 

 new artichokes spread out to the same dimensions 

 as LiUum auratum, and exceptionally there may 

 be an individual blossom of some other species 

 that has a spread that approaches the same mark. 

 In general, however, as everyone knows, flow- 

 ers are accounted large if they exceed six inches 



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