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PLANTS BELONGING TO AMARYLLIDE^. 
Festuca ovina. — Sheep's Fescue; this will not make a good bottom any where, 
except on hill-sides or dry sandy soils. It is a good grass for dry situations. 
Festuca ^ew2^j/b/z«.— Slender-leaved Fescue ; this is good for growing in dry 
situations;, but not so valuable as the last. It seldom makes so good a bottom as 
the foregoing. 
Lolium perenne Whitmovthensis . — -A variety of the five-leaved rye grass. It 
gro^^^s best on a loamy soil. 
Voa trivialis, or Common Meadow Grass, makes a good surface on a moist 
surface, but is apt to parch up in dry situations. 
Poa pratensis. — Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass, grows fine on loamy soil, and 
forms a good surface. 
Let the land be well cleansed previous to sowing, or the grass-plot will soon 
become unsightly with weeds after being sown. 
A FEW REMARKS ON SOME OF THE PLANTS 
BELONGING TO AMARYLLIDE^. 
Perhaps no family of plants exhibit more brilliancy of colours, combined with 
delightful fragrance, than do the flowers of those belonging to this order. 
The " lilies of the field" have excited admiration from the earliest ages of 
the botanical study, and the accounts which have been transmitted to this country 
by botanists and other travellers, leave no doubts as to these being the flowers 
intended. 
They are all bulbous-rooted, and differ but little in the figure and general 
appearance of the leaves. The order contains thirty genera, many of which are 
found deeply rooted in the burning shores of islands in the torrid zone, where 
scarcely a blade of grass will grow. These will only thrive in the stove under 
peculiar treatment. 
Many are found in the damp and sultry woods of South America, where they 
are completely overshadowed by trees, and never see the light of the sun ; these 
also require shade, and a place in the stove. 
Some grow intermingled with ixias and gladioluses in Southern Africa ; these 
for the most part require no greater heat than the greenhouse or vinery. Others 
again are to be met with in the cooler provinces of Europe and Asia, many of 
which are perfectly hardy, and the others require only the shelter of a frame 
through the winter. 
H.EMANTHUS. (Blood-flowcr.) These all require the temperature of the 
greenhouse, and the most part will thrive in any rich mould. There are a few, 
however, which seem to prefer a considerable portion of peat and sand, mixing with 
the mould, as maculalms, hyalocarpus, rotundifolius, piwiilio, and carneus. H. 
crassipes and orbicularis will flower better if potted in quite strong loam ; let them 
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