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triphyUa. The flowers are small, in long spikes of a pale 
lilac colour ; the celebrity of the plant is in the delightful 
odour of its foliage, which is linear, lanceolate, and ternate. 
It is of very easy culture, and has been known to survive 
winter in the open air in Philadelphia. Where large plants 
are desired, they should be planted in the ground during 
summer, and lifted in November, and put in a dry cellar or 
under the stage in the green-house. Before they begin to 
grow in the spring, trim the plants into a neat shape. 
(Soil No. 9.) 
Ahiroemerias, about sixteen species, all exceedingly de- 
sirable, and many of them particularly beautiful ; such are 
A. durea, golden-flowered; A. bicolor, salmon and orange; 
A. carminata, carmine-coloured; A. Sbokerii, rose-coloured; 
A. pelegrina, elegantly spotted; A. pukhella, red-flowered, 
and will grow six feet high, having its shoots crowned with 
a profusion of flowers; A. psittaclna, red, yellow and green; 
A. tricolor, black, white and yellow ; very beautiful. They 
have, generally, tuberous roots, and should be potted into 
fresh soil as soon as they show symptoms of growth, and 
they will require repotting about every month previous to 
flowering, taking care never to break the ball of earth while 
they are in a growing state. (Soil No. 10.) 
Amaryllis. This is a genus of splendid flowering bulbs, 
containing about eighty species and one hundred and forty 
varieties. They are natives of South America, but more 
than one-half of them are hybrids grown from seed by cul- 
tivators. They are generally kept in the hot-house, but in 
our climate will do perfectly well in the green-house ; and 
we have no doubt that in a few years many of them will be 
so acclimated as to keep as garden bulbs, planting about 
the end of April, and lifting them in October. As the 
beauty of these plants is in the flowers, it will be proper to 
give a small description of a few of them. A. Leila, pure 
white striped with rose ; A. Bartonii, creamy white striped 
with pink ; A. Buistii, large pure white, striped with cherry 
colour; A. ignescens, bright red, with white at the base of 
the petals. A; Jolinsbni, the flowers are a deep scarlet, 
with a white streak in the centre of each petal, four bloom 
on a stem of about two feet, each flower about six inches in 
diameter; a bulb well established has two stems. A. reglna, 
Mexican Lily, has large scarlet pendent flowers, tube of the 
