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Blandfordia. The species will amply repay the little care 

 which is required to be bestowed upon them. They should 

 be grown in very sandy peat and loam, being potted in autumn, 

 and placed in a low temperature. If the soil is in good order 

 when they are potted, little or no water will be required until 

 they begin to grow, when they should have an increase both 

 of heat and water. After they have done flowering, and have 

 completed their growth, they may be stored away under the 

 stage, or on shelves, as recommended for Amaryllis. 



Increase may be effected by seeds, and also by division of 

 the old plants. 



B. aurea. — A very fine and valuable addition to our sum- 

 mer-flowering greenhouse plants ; the leaves narrow, linear, 

 and dark green ; the scape usually attains a height of about 

 two feet, bearing upon its apex an umbel of large, drooping, 

 rich, golden yellow bell-shaped flowers. It is a native of 

 Australia. 



B. Cunningliamii. — This is a beautiful ornamental green- 

 house plant, a native of the Blue Mountains in New South 

 Wales, and by far the handsomest species known. The 

 leaves are perfectly smooth, about two feet in length, linear- 

 ensiform in shape, slightly keeled at the back, and about half 

 an inch broad at the base, bright green on the upper surface, 

 and paler below. The flower scape is about three feet high, 

 supporting a terminal cluster of from sixteen to twenty 

 pendulous flowers, each about two inches long and some- 

 what bell-shaped, in colour a bright coppery red, the upper 

 expanded part being a rich golden yellow. It is a most 

 desirable plant, which should be added to every collection 

 of greenhouse plants. 



B. flammea. — A beautiful species, resembling the others 

 in habit. The leaves are somewhat stiff and narrow. The 

 flowers are borne upon a graceful stem, and are between 



