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very free-flowering. The proper soil is fibry loam and a 

 little peat. 



After potting, say in early winter, plunge the pot in 

 a slight bottom-heat in the stove, say at 70 to 75, 

 to start it into vigorous growth, giving plenty of water. 

 When the growth is perfected, remove the plant to the 

 greenhouse, and give it all the sun possible until September. 

 Then diminish water to hasten the ripening, and by the end 

 of the month remove to a cool stove where the temperature 

 is from 50 to 55 ; giving only enough water to keep the 

 plant healthy. 



It may be forced into bloom at any season. The flowers 

 are pure white, large, and showy, on foot-stalks just above 

 the leaves. The plant will grow, and we have bloomed 

 it, in the greenhouse ; but it does better in the stove. 



E. Amazonica, or grandiflora, is the species, and is a native 

 of South America. It is one of the finest of the amaryllis 

 family ; and has the merit, which so few have, of blooming 

 with, and the flower seeming to conform to, the foliage. 



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A genus of stove-bulbs, from South America, which 

 thrive well with the general treatment of amaryllis. 



