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it is a very free bloomer, and a most valuable plant eitber 

 for home decoration or exhibition purposes. This can be 

 growp without any trellis, and can be kept as a dwarf plant 

 by training it to sticks when young. 



A. Henilersoni. — This remarkably handsome species is a 

 most abundant bloomer, and is of bushy habit, forming short- 

 jointed growths, and producing its gorgeous flowers even when 

 only some ten or twelve inches high ; it will also continue to 

 give a succession of its large corymbs of blooms for ten 

 months out of the twelve. In colour the flowers are of a 

 deep rich orange yellow, with a deeper shade in the throat ; 

 before expanding they are deep mnroon colour. This most 

 desirable plant is a native of New Grenada. 



A. nohilis. — A grand acquisition to this fine genus. The 

 habit is scandent, and the flowers are fully six to seven 

 inches in diameter, and of the brighest and clearest yellow, 

 rather darker in the throat, but without any stain or marb'ng, 

 added to which it is sweet scented. Combining all these 

 good qualities, and being remarkably free-flowering, it will 

 make a plant of the flrst importance for exhibition purposes 

 as well as for home decoration. Native of Brazil. 



A. ScJwttii. — A fine strong-growing species, producing 

 oblong-aeuminate leaves, about four in a whorl, and quite 

 smooth on both sides ; the flowers are large, of good sub- 

 stance, and rich bright yellow. It is a native of Brazil, 

 in the province of Parabiba, where it luxuriates on the 

 river banks. 



Amaryllis. 



The plants to which this name is commonly applied belong 

 to the section or group Hippeastrum, which some botanists 

 regard as a distinct genus. They are typical of the order 

 of AmarylUdacem. Like many other bulbous plants, they ^ 



