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Amaryllis equestris, Ait. (Hippeastrum, Herb. — H. occiden- 



tale, Rmm. — Amaryllis Belladonna, Sw.) 

 Nerine sarniensis, Herht. Hab. Guernsey. 

 N. PULCHELLA, Hoolc et Am, Hab. C. G. H. 

 Zephyranthes atamasco, Don. Hab. N. America. 

 Z. ROSEA, Bot. Reg. Hab. Cuba. 

 Pancratium ovatum. 

 Narcissus Jonquilla, Bot. Mag. 

 Sanseviera guineensis, Haio. Hab. Eastern Africa. 

 Ornithogalum — — ? 

 Hyacinthus ? 



SCILLA ? 



Allium Cepa, L. ** Onion." The cultivation of the onion occu- 

 pies a large share of attention at the hands of the Bermuda, 

 planter, as the soil of the islands appears to be well suited ta* 

 this vegetable, and the high price obtainable during the spring- 

 months in the New York market, renders it probably the most" 

 profitable of crops. The Bermudas, owing to their position 

 eastward of the warm current of the Gulf Stream, have a winter 

 climate far milder than the Southern States of the American 

 continent, situate in the same latitude; and are moreover never- 

 visited by those sudden changes of temperature during the early 

 spring months, which do so much damage to growing crops even 

 in South Georgia and Florida. Once only in the memory of 

 man have the Bermudas been visited by frost, the thermometer 

 rarely falling below 50^ even in February. The crops therefore 

 planted in December or January, regularly attain maturity in 

 April, the onion being ready for shipment about the first week 

 of that month, a date far earlier than it is to b« procured from 

 the Southern States. To the Bermudas New York must there- 

 fore always look for the earliest supply of vegetables, and it will 

 be well for the islanders to bear in mind the great necessity of ' 

 maintaining a proper system of steam communication with the- 

 metropolis of the western world. . 



LiLIUM chalcedonicum. 



L. CANDIDUM, Willd, 



L. SPECIOSUM. 



