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LXII. Notice relative to the Management of the Crinum 

 Amabile ; with some Account of, and Observations on, the 

 Plant so named. By Mr. James Verrell, Gardener to 

 the Right Hon. Sir Charles Long, G. C. B. F. if. S. at 

 Bromley Hill, in Kent. 



Read March 6th, 1821. 



Th e Crinum amabile, from which the flower exhibited to 

 the Society on the 6th of February last was gathered, was 

 sent to Bromley Hill from Wormleybury, in 1815 ; it was 

 at that time very young, and was but a small plant in 1817, 

 when I sunk the pot in which it grew about two-thirds of 

 its depth into a bed of sand in the stove. Underneath the 

 pit, which is thus filled with sand, to the depth of twelve 

 inches, is a chamber, extending the whole length of the pit, 

 the air in the chamber being heated by a fire flue passing 

 round it, by which means the sand is kept constantly warm. 

 The pot in which the plant grows is sixteen inches in diameter 

 at the top, but the bottom is of smaller dimensions, and the 

 depth is about equal to its upper diameter. Soon after the 

 pot was plunged in the sand, the roots of the bulb found 

 their way into the sand through the holes, as well as through 

 a crack in the bottom of the pot, and have gradually extended 

 themselves a considerable distance in it ; and to this circum- 

 stance, 1 attribute its luxuriant growth. The pit is frequently 

 watered, and it seems as if the moistened sand was peculi- 

 arly congenial to this bulb. In October 1818, it produced 



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