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fleeted at the point ; the three inner ones smaller by half, biform- 

 ed, singularly divided into a lower hastate and an upper ovate divi- 

 sion, by a depressed intersection ; the upper division is of the 

 richest scarlet imaginable, variegated by a bright golden yellow. 

 The Filament, is a cuniculated or piped triquetral column. The 

 Anthers are sessile, erect, bearing their polen on the outside, con- 

 niving at the point, diverging below to admit the exit of the stig- 

 mas. The Germen, is obtusely trigonal, three celled. Style, the 

 length of the filamental column, through the hollow of which it 

 passes. Stigmas, three, filiform, bifid. Capsule, oblong, obtusely 

 trigonal three-celled. Seeds, in double rows in each cell and round. 



HERNANDEZ, a Spanish physician, who was sent to Mexico, by 

 PHILIP II. King of Spain, informs us, that it grew wild about that 

 city, and was much cultivated for its excessive beauty, and for the 

 medicinal virtues of its roots, being, as he terms it, u a frigefacient 

 in fevers, and also a promoter of fecundity in women." 



This flower has no scent ; but in splendid beauty, it has scarcely 

 any competitor. It is born to display its glory but a few hours, 

 and then literally melts away ; but to compensate for this sudden 

 decline, it continues to produce flowers for several weeks. The 

 latter end of this month is generally the season of its bloom. 



It is properly a Green-house plant, succeeds best in light mould, 

 and is easily propagated by seed, from which the plants will flower 

 the second year. The bulbs and offsets may be taken up in Octo- 

 ber, when the leaves are decayed, and kept in dry sand, saw-dust, 

 or rolled up in dry moss till March ; but they must be carefully 

 preserved from frost. Or they may be replanted immediately in 

 pots of fresh earth, and placed in the Green-house ; giving them 

 but very little water, till they begin to vegetate in spring. 



COL. THOMAS FORREST, of Germantown, near Philadelphia, is 

 in possession of this rare and, perhaps, unparalleled beauty, as 

 well as of many other scarce and valuable plants. I saw it in full bloom 

 last season, in his collection. 



THE HOT-HOUSE. 



Pine- Apples. 



THE care of the fruiting pines being the same in this month as in 

 the last, is unnecessary to be repeated ; as likewise the propagation 

 of the plants by crowns and suckers, as well as the shifting ofthose 

 succession pines which are expected to produce fruit next season. 



Let this shifting, where neglected last month, be done, if possi- 

 ble, in the first or second week of this, that the plants may have 



