Gardening for Amateurs 



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be thoroughly ripened, and flowering thus 

 ensured. By August the flower spikes will 

 make their appearance, when the soil must 

 be kept watered. The blossoms quickly 

 develop, and are, as a rule, at their best 



be done directly the blossoms are past. 

 A compost, mainly consisting of loam, with 

 leaf - mould and sand, is suitable. There 

 are many species and garden varieties, 

 among the best being Bowdenii, a large rose 



Nerine pudica. 



in September and October. Nerines may 

 remain in the same pot for years without 

 being disturbed, and flower well every 

 season. They should, when growing, be 

 given liquid manure occasionally. If it 

 becomes necessary to repot them, this may 



flower with darker stripe down the centre 

 of each segment : corusca, vermilion ; flex- 

 uosa, rose ; flexuosa alba, white ; Fother- 

 gillii, also known as curvifolia, rich scarlet ; 

 sarniensis (the Guernsey Lily), bright rosy 

 carmine ; and pudica, white and red. 



