(538 A CATALOGUE OF 



HOT-HOUSE BULBOUS AND TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 



Those marked thus * are bulbous, the others have tuberous 

 or fleshy roots. 



Such of the following, as well as of the Green-House bulbous 

 and tuberous-rooted plants, as their foliage and rooted-fibres decay, 

 on the afifiroach ofnvinter, may then be taken up, sufficiently dried, 

 and preserved in -very dry sand, moss, chaff, or saw -dust, and care- 

 fully protected from damp and frost till spring ; when they should 

 be replanted in pots of suitable compost, and these plunged in the 

 bark-pit or in a moderate hot bed, to forward the vegetation of the 

 roots. Some kinds such as the Polianthes tuberosa, or common 

 Tuberose, Amaryllis formosissima, or JacobeaLily, Sec. will bear to 

 be kept in this dry state till the first week in May, or as a more 

 general direction, to the ' period of planting the first or earliest 

 crops of Indian corn, and then planted in the open ground or in 

 pots, where they will flower in good perfection. Other sorts have 

 a natural tendency to vegetate and keep their foliage during winter, 

 which foliage generally decays in the months of June or July, when 

 their roots may be taken up, but those should be replanted as soon 

 after, as they shew the least disposition to vegetate, by the emission 

 of root-fibres or thr, swelling of their leaf-buds. Others again, for 

 instance the Amaryllis Belladonna, have strong, fleshy, root-fibres, 

 which keep fresh during the seemingly dormant state of the bulbs ; 

 these should not be taken up oftener lhan every second or third 

 year, and then only to deprive them of their offsets and give them 

 fresh compost. 



Amaryllis formosisai ma Jacobea Lily 



regime Mexican do. 



an re a Golden dr. 



reticulata Tall-stalked do. 



ornata Cape-Coast do. 



Zfylanica Ceylon do. 



Amonwm Zinziber True Ginger 



Zerumbet Broad-leaved do. 



syfoestre Great-wild do. 



,, M'toga Japanese do. 



Caraamomvm Cardamum 



,, Granum Parodist Grains of Paradise 



,, Galanga Galangale 



Arum Colocasia Egyptian Arum 



bicolorum Painted do. 



vcnosum Purple-flowered do. 



,, esculentum Eatable do. 



,, sagittaefolium Arrow-leaved do. 



Commelina tuberosa Tuberous-rooted Conunelifja 



Convolvulus Jalapa True Jalap Convolvulus 



* Crinum America*um Great American Crinum 



* erubescent Small American Crinum 



