340 A Notice of certain Seedling Varieties of Amaryllis. 



that term it perished ; and as far as I am informed, experi- 

 ments in raising this variety from seed have not been car- 

 ried beyond the first generation. The test of hybridity is not 

 the ascertaining whether a given plant is susceptible of pro- 

 pagation, but of perpetuation by seed. 



At the time when Mr. Gowen's new hybrid plant was sent 

 to the Society (viz. in August, 1821) and when the account of 

 it was printed, it was supposed that there was no difference 

 between it and the old Amaryllis Johnsoni. Its beauty has 

 however increased very much with its age, and the flowers it 

 has now produced are so much more rich and glowing in 

 colour than those of Amaryllis Johnsoni, that a figure of it 

 has been ordered by the Council to be published from a 

 drawing by Miss Cotton, to accompany this Paper. 



