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the full size, was planted immediately in a larger pot, which 

 raised it about six inches higher in the water, and was re- 

 placed in the pond : an old bulb, which had passed the win- 

 ter in the green-house, was put by its side. They are both 

 thriving well, and their leaves are half a yard above the 

 water. Towards the latter end of May, I placed in the 

 pond a pot with another old plant, so that the pot and the 

 surface of the earth that covers the bulb are about an 

 inch under the water. It had not been long there before 

 a flower bud appeared; and it has at this moment two 

 vigorous and tall flower stems, which stand erect, without 

 any support, and resist the wind (which has been pretty 

 strong, and has torn many of the herbaceous plants) in 

 a manner that they would not have had strength to do 

 under the usual treatment. The flowers are unusually 

 fine, and highly coloured. Perhaps it may be well to raise 

 the pots, in the spring, nearly to the surface of the water, 

 but I have very little doubt of the plants flowering, even in 

 their winter situation, a little later in the summer ; at all 

 events, this beautiful plant may be generally removed from 

 the stove or green-house, to take its place beside the hardy 

 Nympheas in the water. 



I have at this moment in fine blossom, a beautiful new spe- 

 cies of hybrid Crinum, which was raised in the autumn of 1813, 

 from the seed of the Crinum Capense (or Amaryllis longi- 

 folia), which had been impregnated in Lord Carnarvon's 

 hot-house, by the skilful management of Mr. Gowen, with 

 the pollen of the Crinum Moluccanum of Dr. Roxburg ; an 

 Amboyna plant, which is figured in the Botanical Magazine, 

 plate 1171, under the name of Amaryllis ornata, and which 

 has since been confounded by Mr. Ker, in his review of the 



