CULTURE OF THE AMARYLLIS. 39 



frames ; it is of fine color, and he considers it a valuable variety. 

 It is very prolific in frames. 



Mr. Hovey thought it might be valuable for a succession for 

 amateurs. 



Edwin W. Buswell said that in a previous discussion the idea 

 was conveyed that the Amai-yllis would not flourish, if grown long 

 in the same pot, and called attention to a vigorous plant of A. fid- 

 gida exhibited by Mrs. S. Joyce, showing eight flower stalks, with an 

 average of five flowers and buds to each, and which had remained 

 in the same pot for two years, as refuting the idea. 



Mr. Hovey said he would have people procure bulbs of all this 

 family and cultivate them, especially of the Vallota, which is 

 equally as beautiful as the Amaryllis, but which gardeners either 

 do not seem to cai'e about, or do not know how to cultivate, while 

 the ladies are very successful with it as a house plant. The gar- 

 deners put it into a greenhouse and keep it continually watered 

 and excited, while the ladies put it into the cellar, where it enjoys 

 a season of rest, 



Mrs. Joyce did not think the amaryllis can be cultivated in 

 the open ground. The plant exhibited by her to-day was a single 

 bulb, which she planted in a pot two years ago ; the first year it 

 sent up one spike of flowers. A month ago she took it from under 

 a shelf and put it in a pan of manure water. She thought that if 

 you separate them and put them in the open ground, you would 

 lose them. She had found them all die off when thus planted ; 

 the bulbs want to dry in the pot. 



Mr. Hovey thouglit the variety on exhibition was the old Prince 

 of Orange, which has a great tendency to make ofi'sets, and if the 

 roots are not kept cramped in the pot, it will not flower ; but they 

 do beautifully in the open ground. Offsets weaken the bulb. 



The president alluded to the need of variety in these discussions. 



Mr. Wilder expressed his gratification at the increased interest 

 in the weekly exhibitions, and in these discussions, which were 

 recommended by the president in his inaugural address. He felt 

 especially grateful for the bringing up of good old plants which 

 have been laid on the shelf, and thought that if no other benefit 

 had ISeen produced this would warrant these meetings. But what 



