tarpauling, or any water-proof covering, placed over them at the time 
when it might be requisite to exclude either rain or cold. The cover- 
ing might hang on the two sides of a strong longitudinal pole, like the 
two slopes of a roof, and be made to roll up either with or without a 
spring. There are many plants which seem to enjoy a cool atmos- 
phere, but will not flower or thrive vigourously without the stimulus 
of heated earth at the root. Having chosen a situation where a fur- 
nace and boiler could be placed under ground, I would carry the 
smoke-flue as far as its heat would extend on one side, and hot-water 
or steam-pipes in a different direction, as might be found convenient, 
enclosed in a stone or brick flue, to as great a length as its influence 
might reach. In such a border I believe the genus Hedychium and 
many others, would flower perfectly, with the assistance of fire in 
summer, requiring nothing in winter but a covering to throw off the 
wet; and the heat might be turned into other pipes for the advantage 
of plants which might require the warmth in winter rather than in 
summer. If in front of a wall, a moveable verandah, which might be 
either ornamental or made of thatched hurdles or hurdle-gates, would 
throw off the wet, which is the principal cause of injury in winter; for 
many plants will endure the access of severe frost to the head, if all 
wet can be effectually excluded from the base of the stem and from the 
root by any sloped heading. Under such a verandah, with occasional 
heat to the flue, during the early summer,and perhaps in severe frost, 
Amaryllis, Brunsvigia, Buphane, Nerine, Hemanthus, and all the al- 
lied genera of African bulbs, as well as the South Americans, would 
certainly succeed better than with any other treatment.” HERBERT, p. 
402 
DERIVATION OF THE Nam 
CRINUM kpwwoy KRINON, the Greek for a ye og a barbarous word 
intended as Latin for the Cape of Good Hope 
SynonyMEs. 
seat eet eee Miller’s Gardener's eear en No.7. Willdenow 
Species Plantarum, II, p. 55. Botanical Register, fo 
Sehnicon LONGIFOLIA. Hortus Kewensis, 1, p. —_ 
AMARYLLIS REVOLUTEA. Botanical Mavazine, 1178. 
