40 GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS. 



part of a green-house where it is dry, and of a tempera- 

 ture not under forty or fifty degrees. If kept in such a 

 situation during winter, some kinds may be turned out 

 into a warm border in spring, where they will flower ; and 

 if the season be fine, they will renew their bulbs in time 

 to be taken up before the approach of frost. 



The chief value of these plants, however, is to produce 

 flowers in the winter season, which they readily do if 



they are kept dry 

 and dormant during 

 the latter part of the 

 summer and autumn. 

 Indeed, by having a 

 large stock of these 

 bulbs, a regular suc- 

 cession of flowers 

 may be procured 

 during every month 

 in the year. When 

 the dormant bulbs 

 are intended to be 

 thrown into flower, 

 they should be fresh 

 potted in sandy loam 

 and leaf mould, and 

 (VittataType.) put in a hot-houseor 



hot-bed, kept rather dry, and covered up with leaves until 

 the pot is well filled with roots, just as is done in forcing 

 Hyacinths or Lilies, except, in the case of Amaryllis, the 

 temperature requires to be kept ten degrees higher, the 

 heat beginning at fifty degrees, and ascending to sixty or 

 seventy degrees ; and when the leaves appear, the plants 

 should be abundantly supplied with water. Our long 

 and warm summers enable us to cultivate many of these 



AMARYLLIS. 



