92 JACOBEA LILY. [April. 



GLADIOLUS OR SWORD LILY. 



It is now a well-ascertained fact that the whole of this 

 beautiful family will succeed well with a treatment similar 

 to the tube rose, requiring to be two or three weeks earlier 

 planted : indeed, G. communis and its varieties are perfectly 

 hardy; but the splendid G. psittaclnuSjVfiih. large yellow, 

 red, and green flowers; G. cardinalis, scarlet and white; 

 G. blandus, rose and white; G. florabundus, shaded rose, 

 G. formosissimus, magnificent scarlet; G. Gandavensis, large 

 and superb orange scarlet and yellow; G. ramosus, delicate 

 waxy pink, of strong growth ; G. Buistii, bright scarlet shaded 

 with orange and yellow, splendid; and several others are 

 worthy of the greatest care and attention. Their large spikes 

 of showy flowers will well compensate for an extra degree of 

 care in preparation of soil, &c. 



AMARYLLIS FORMOSISSIMA, OR JACOBEA LILY. 



About the end of this or beginning of next month is the 

 most proper time for planting out these bulbs. This flower 

 is of the most beautiful and rich crimson velvet color. The 

 bulb generally produces two stems, the one after the other, 

 about the end of May or first of June. The stem is from 

 nine inches to one foot high, surmounted by a single flower, 

 composed of six petals, three hanging down, three erect and 

 recurved; the stamens droop on the centre of the under 

 petals. The flower thus appears nodding on one side of the 

 stem, and has a most graceful and charming appearance. If 

 planted in a bed, prepare the ground as before directed for 

 Tuberoses. Keep the rows one foot asunder, and the bulbs 

 six inches apart in the rows, covering them two inches over 

 their crowns. This plant is now called S^n-eikelia formosls- 

 sima, and we think properly, too, for its character and habit 

 difier from Amaryllis. 



We have not the smallest doubt that, in a few years, not 

 only this superb South American bulb will adorn our flower 

 gardens, but many of the rich bulbs of Brazil and South 

 America generally will yearly exhibit to us the beauty of 

 their colors, and the beautiful construction of their flowers 



