Plate 77 . 
AMARYLLIS— BEAUTY OF REIGATE. 
While adhering as firmly as ever to the belief that well-formed flowers are ever more 
beautiful than ragged and uneven ones, we readily admit that there are other qualities 
which may sometimes lead us to disregard the one matter of form in their behalf ; amongst 
these are brilliancy of colour and freedom of flowering. Thus, for instance, amongst Hoses that 
fine rose Eugene Appert possesses no pretensions to form, but we should be very unwilling 
to dismiss it from our garden, valuing as we do the exceeding brilliancy of its colouring ; 
and so with a more recent one, Ahhe Branierd, though somewhat loose and ragged, we hold 
that as a garden rose it deserves a place, and we believe will maintain it. So with the 
variety of Amaryllis we now figure ; it cannot for a moment be compared in beauty of 
form with others that we possess, but as exhibited, it seemed to be so very free in flowering, 
and the colouring was so brilliant, that we do not wonder at the award which it received. 
A. Beauty of B,eig ate, was raised by Mr. Brown, gardener to A. J. Waterlow, Esq., Great 
Poods, Beigate, who is we believe a great admirer of this very ornamental flowering bulb, and 
was exhibited by him at the Eoyal Horticnltural Society at South Kensington, when it 
was awarded a first class certificate, especially for its free habit, the bulbs producing two or 
more stems each. We wonder that the flower is not more grown amongst us than it is, as it 
only requires an intermediate house and a good strong soil. Like many other bulbs, it is 
somewhat impatient of having its roots disturbed, but presents no real difficulties of 
cultivation. 
Plate 78 . 
ABUTILON— BOULE BE NEIGE. 
All who cultivate greenhouse flowers have grown and admired that fine old and easily 
grown plant the Abutilon, and the efforts of hybridizers, especially in France, have been 
devoted to its improvement. In this they have been successful ; thus in Due de Malakoff 
we have a neat growing variety, very free in blooming, and a great improvement on the 
old striatum, while insigne, a large growing variety, when space can be given to it is very 
valuable ; the ground colour is white, but so completely covered over is it with veins of deep 
rich crimson that but little white is to be seen, while in vexillariim we have a brilliant red 
calyx with light yellow corolla. That which we now figure is entirely distinct from its 
predecessors, being, as its name implies, pure white. 
Abutilon Boule de Neige was exhibited by Mr. Standish of the Eoyal Nursery Ascot, 
and was received by him from France ; he describes it as very free flowering, as indeed could 
be seen from the small plants exhibited by him being full of flowers, and he also states that 
it is very valuable as a subtropical plant, bearing exposure to the summer well, and interesting 
by the contrast of its pure white flowers and bright green foliage. 
The Abutilon s are very easily cultivated, requiring as soil turfy loam and peat, with 
some coarse sand and a good supply of water in their growing season ; they do very well 
planted out against a pillar in a conservatory, where they will produce a large number of 
flowers suitable for cutting. 
