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has four flowers about seven inches diameter, erect on a 

 stem about two and a half feet high ; six petals, strongly 

 united to the capsule, bottom of the petals green, con- 

 nect ed with spots of dark crimson, which spread into 

 fine transparent red, covered with rich tints, nerves very 

 perceptible, anthers bold. It is called crowned Ama- 

 ryllis. A. psittdcina. Parrot Amaryllis, is scarlet striped 

 with green, two flowers on the stem, each about five 

 inches diameter. There are several varieties of it ; the 

 best that we have seen are cowbergia and pulverulenta. 

 A bulb known in our collections as A.purpurea is Ballota 

 purpurca, has beautiful erect scarlet flowers, three or 

 four on the stem, each about five inches in diameter. 

 There are three varieties of it, differing only in habit. 

 A. longifblia is now Cnnum capense, and is perfectly hardy; 

 flowers pink, inclining to white, in large umbels, leaves 

 long, glaucous, and is a desirable garden bulb. 



There are many other superb Amaryllis,especially the 

 hybrid sorts ; from Johnsoni there are above twenty cul- 

 tivated varieties; fromformosa above twelve; and from 

 Grifflni about ten, all of them esteemed. Where they 

 have been kept in the earth in which they were grown 

 last year, the ball ought at this repotting to be reduced ; 

 when the bulbs are done flowering, they ought to have 

 little water, so that they may be perfectly ripened, which 

 will cause them to produce their flowers more freely. 



Araucdria. This noble genus contains four species, 

 which are without exception the handsomest plants we 

 are acquainted with, for the beauty of their foliage, and 

 symmetry of their growth, that belong to the Green- 

 house. A. excelsa, Norfolk Island Pine, has leaves closely 



