ALYSSUM AMARYLLIS. 



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SOIL, PROPAGATION AND GENERAL CARE. 



Alyssum is suited with any good garden soil, and 

 wi'th the ordinary care as to watering and temper- 

 ature. 



Alyssum is easily propagated from seeds, cut- 

 tings or divisions of the roots. Plants from seeds 

 sown in spring — either early under glass or later 

 in the open ground — may be potted in October, and 

 will bloom during the early winter. If cuttings 

 are taken from these plants about the first of Sep- 

 tember they will bloom later in winter and in the 

 spring. It is well to arrange to have two or more 

 succession of fresh plants during the year. 



The little black flea that attacks young cabbages 

 and turnips is very fond of Alyssum. They may 

 be destroyed by applications of tobacco water, dilute 

 soft-soap, or dustings of fine ashes mixed with 

 snuff. 



VARIETIES. 



Alyssum Benthamii, white, fine hardy annual. 

 A. Benthamii Compactum, a compact growing variety of the 

 favorite old White Sweet Alyssum. 

 A. Wiersbeckii, white and yellow. 



AMARYLLIS. 



This plant has received the name of a nymph, 

 celebrated by the poet Virgil. A. Belladonna was in- 

 troduced from the West Indies in 171 2. Some of the 



