COBUB'GIA FUL'VA. 
TAWNY COBUBGIA. 
Class. 
hexandria. 
Natural Order. 
amaryllidace^e. 
Order. 
monogynia. 
Native of 
S. America 
Height. 
2 feet. 
Flowers in 
March. 
Habit 
Bulb. 
Introduced 
in 1827. 
No. 1173. 
The present genus has 
Prince Leopold of Saxe 
Belgians. 
been named in honour of 
Coburg ; now king of the 
This handsome bulbous plant flowered in the cob 
lection of J. Wilmore, Esq., of Oldford, to whom we 
ate indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. Mr 
Cole, gardener, at Oldford, obligingly, not only 
afforded facilities for its being drawn, but commu- 
nicated his mode of managing such bulbs without 
the aid of artificial heat. 
The Coburgia fulva has been but little cultivated 
on account, probably, of its being, like some of the 
Cape bulbs under the usual management, a some- 
what shy flowerer. Cultivated according to the fol- 
lowing directions, this complaint will be removed, 
and we will enumerate a few others, that will form 
an interesting group to place under the same treat- 
ment. These are the Brunsvigias, Nerines, Pent- 
landias, Griffinias, Amaryllis belladonna, and Val- 
lota purpurea. 
In a brick pit, adapted to a cold frame, which we 
have lately described, lower the moveable floor to 
within two feet of the lop of the brick sides ; place 
