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ground, and do not come up til! after the flower- 

 stem appears, which is generally in November; 

 and after the flowers are past, the leaves increase 

 till spring, and in May they begin to decay, so 

 that from the middle of June to October the plant 

 is void of leaves. It grows naturally at the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



In the tenth species, or Guernsey Lily, the bulb 

 is an oblong spheroid, flatted most at the lower 

 end, six or seven inches round where thickest : 

 the leaves are of a dark willow green colour, shin- 

 ing, from half an inch to three quarters of an inch 

 tn breadth, a little blunt at the end, from two to 

 four in number, rarely five. The scape is flat- 

 tened, twelve or fourteen inches in height, and 

 more. The spathe splits, and falls back in two 

 unequal pieces of a reddish colour and triangular 

 figure. The pedicels are from an inch to almost 

 two inches in length. The number of flowers 

 commonly from eight to twelve, the circum- 

 ference of each being about seven inches. The 

 corolla, when in its prime, has the colour of a 

 fine gold tissue wrought on a rose-coloured 

 ground ; and when it begins to fade, it is a pink : 

 if beheld in a full sun-shine, it seems to be stud- 

 ded with diamonds, but by candle-light the specks 

 or spangles look more like fine gold dust : when 

 the petals begin to wither, they assume a deep 

 crimson colour. The flowers begin to come out 

 at the end of Angus , and the head is usually 

 three weeks in gradually expanding itself. This 

 beautiful plant is a native of Japan, and has been 

 long naturalized in Guernsey. 



The eleventh species has the stature of the 

 Crinum Americanum. The leaves are fleshy, 

 scabrous with a toothleted edge. The spat he 

 bivalve, besides some interior scales or fragments. 

 The germs are sessile. The tube of the corolla 

 of the same colour with the scape, which is ru- 

 fous. The border white, with lanceolate, re- 

 curved petals, with a red keel underneath. The 

 filaments and style are of a blood-red colour, 

 and the pericarps viviparous. 



The twelfth has roots like the Crinum mentioned 

 below : the leaves narrower at their base, and 

 stained with purple on their under side ; the 

 scapes purple, and growing to the same height 

 a- 'in se of the Crinum Asiaticum ; the flowers of 

 the same shape, but the tube purple, and the seg- 

 ments having a purple stripe running through' 

 them : the stamina are also purple ; it is however 

 mo luliful than that plant. This is a native 



of the East Indies. 



Culture. — In all the different sorts, the pro- 

 is performed by the small bulbs or 

 offsets that are removed from the sides of the 

 old roots every year at the time they are trans- 

 planted. Some of the sorts, as the first and 



second, are often capable of being raised on dry 

 •.-.■arm borders; but most of the others stand in 

 need of artificial heat to raise them in the most 

 perfect manner. 



They all delight in a loose, sandy, dry soil, that 

 contains a good proportion of vegetable mould ; 

 and require but little water, except where the roots 

 are in a high state of growth and sending forth 

 their flower-stems ; when they should have it fre- 

 quently in small quantities. When applied under 

 other circumstances, it is apt to rot and destroy 

 the bulbs. 



All the more tender sorts should be put in 

 pots, and placed in stoves, where they must be 

 constantly kept ; as much air as possible being 

 admitted to them during the hot summer months. 

 Some of them are, however, capable of bearing 

 the open air at this season : but in this method 

 of management they neither grow so well, or 

 flower so regularly, as in the stove mode of treat- 

 ment. 



The most suitable season for transplanting the 

 roots of all the different species, is at the "time 

 when their leaves are wholly destroyed, as about 

 the latter end of July, or the beginning of the 

 following month, before they begin to send forth 

 new root-fibres, as after that has taken place 

 they are liable to be greatly injured by being re- 

 moved from their situations. 



The first kind, or Yellow Autumnal Amaryllis, 

 is a hardy plant, and may be increased with great 

 facility by offsets from the roots. The best rea- 

 son for transplanting the root-bulbs of this sort 

 is any time from May to the end of July, when 

 their leaves are decayed : but after that period it 

 will be too late to remove them, as they mostly 

 begin to push out fresh root-fibres about the mid- 

 dle of August or sooner, if the season be moist and 

 warm, frequently flowering the beginning of Sep- 

 tember ; so that, if the business of transplanting 

 be performed so late as this, it will spoil their 

 flowering. This plant is capable of growing in 

 any soil or situation ; but it thrives Jo the best 

 advantage in those of the above kind, when suf- 

 ficiently fresh and light, and in open situations, 

 that are not under the dripping of trees, or too 

 near walls, or other tall fences that produce much 

 shade. Miller observes that it is commonly know n 

 to gardeners by the name of Yellow Autumnal 

 Narcissus; and usually sold by them with Calchi- 

 cums for autumnal ornaments to gardens ; for 

 which purpose it is a prettv plant, as it will fre- 

 quently keep flowering from the beginning of 

 September to the middle of November, incase 

 the frost is not so severe as to destroy the flowers ; 

 for though there is but one flower in each cover, 

 a succession of flowers is produced from the 

 same root, especially when they are suffered to. 



