2 HORTICULTURAL MEMOIRS. 



have turned to the notes I then made, with the 

 hope that they might afford you a few minutes 

 amusement. Among those productions, its Ama- 

 ryllis * is almost too well known to he enumer- 

 ated. It is said to have been brought from Ja- 

 pan, a country possessing such a variety of cli- 

 mate, that itmightwellafford plants suited to any la- 

 titude. I think, however, it is yet a point to be as- 

 certained, whether there is any thingin theclimate 

 of Guernsey, peculiarly favourable to the growth 

 and flowering of this plant. This is a fact which 

 cannot be determined till the cultivation of it is 

 carried on in England to the same extent in 

 which it is practised in Guernsey. The garden- 

 ers of Britain are satisfied with returning to the 

 earth the few roots they receive in flower, but 

 are scarcely content to wait till the period of 

 flowering of the exhausted individual shall again 

 return. From such impatient and narrow trials ? 

 no conclusion can be drawn against its possibili- 

 ty. In Guernsey, every gardener, and almost 

 every petty farmer who has a bit of garden- 

 ground, appropriates a patch to this favoured 

 root ; and the few hundreds of flowers which are 

 brought to England in their season, or which are 

 kept for ornament on the island, are the produce 

 of thousands of roots which are there planted. 

 The average rate of flowering is not more than 



* Amaryllis Sarniensis. 



