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bottles, and often changing their water. This is found to improve their colours 
wonderfully. In sending flowers in pots to a distance, a light box should be made 
to fit the pot ; place some moss betwixt the pot and 
sides of the box, to prevent the pot being broken, bind 
some upon the top to keep the soil from falling out, 
and tie the flower to a stick to preserve it from shaking. 
Then take two pieces of wood ( a b), just the length of 
the distance betwixt the pot and the lid, place them 
upon the edges of the pot close to the side of the box, 
nail them fast to the lid, after it is placed on the box, 
and the lid being well fastened down, with common 
care, no injury whatever can happen to the plant. 
NEW AMARYLLIDEiE. 
Amaryllis Kermesina ( Carmine Amaryllis). — A beautiful plant. The roots 
were brought from Brazil in the early part of 1833, by Lieutenant Holland, of the 
Royal Marines, who presented them to Miss Street, of Penryn. The flowers are a 
rich deep carmine colour. The soil it thrives in is a mixture of loam, peat, and 
sand. It has hitherto been kept in a warm vinery, and has shown no disposition to 
increase by offsets. — Bot. Beg. Of late years this genus has been greatly increased 
by a number of hybrids, many of which far surpass the originals, both in the pro- 
duction of their flowers, and the rich variety of their colours : for the most part, 
they require the temperature of the stove, although A.pumilio , pudica , blanda , &c. 
do very well in the greenhouse, and a few species, as A. belladonna , &c. will do in 
a frame, or even out of doors in warm situations. They are in general easy of culture, 
and are readily increased by offsets, and many ripen plenty of seeds, if some pollen 
be shaken on the stigma at the proper time. A shell peeled off the bulb will grow 
very freely. The strong growing species must be plentifully supplied with water 
during their time of flowering and growing ; they also thrive best if planted in 
large pots. Mr. Sweet found it an advantage to turn them out of the pots when 
the bulbs weie ripe, and, after shaking all the soil from them, lay them upon a 
shelf in a dry situation, until they began to show flowers ; he then had them potted 
in a compost of light turfy loam, rather more than one-third of white sand, and 
turfy peat, well chopped together, but not sifted. But this system of turning them 
out of the pots will not do for a general rule, as A. reticulata and striatifolia, or the 
mules raised from them, will flower much better by remaining in the pots all the 
year, as do also A. aulica, calyptrata, solandra flora, all of which require to be 
kept dry during their dormant state. A. regina, crocata, rutila, acuminata, fulgida, 
Johnsoni, psittacini, and the mules between them, flower much better if turned out 
of their pots, and treated after Mr. Sweet’s system. Each requires a good drainage. 
