No. 1173, where the cultivation of Coburgia fulva is 
given at length, Nerine is mentioned as one of the 
genera to which the treatment there recommended 
is applicable, To this mode of management we 
would especially call the attention of our readers, a 
mode which places within the power of those who 
possess no garden structures for the production of 
artificial heat, the pleasure of cultivating in perfec- 
tion an extensive collection of bulbs, than which 
few plants are more splendid, or more easily man- 
aged when the proper method of treating them is 
sufficiently understood. 
Although Nerine curvifolia is nearly as hardy as 
Amaryllis belladonna, it requires the peculiar excite- 
ment of the closed frame, after flowering, to lipen 
its bulbs, and prepare them for the production of 
perfect flowers in the following season. For a detail 
of the management we must refer the cultivator to 
No. 1173, but in addition to the instructions there 
given, we may suggest, for the purpose of ripening 
bulbs, the propriety of employing a frame, set at the 
foot of a south wall that is occupied by Peach and 
Nectarine trees. Here the border might be pre- 
pared ; a frame to open as a box, with its lights set at 
a very sharp angle, that is, high behind and low in 
front, so that tall plants may be accommodated at 
the back. Such an arrangement will produce two- 
fold advantages. Whilst the bulbs are being ma- 
tured by a high temperature, obtained by the sun 
acting on the closed frame, the roots of the fiuit 
trees will also be operated on, so as to assist in effi- 
ciently ripening their fruit, and also in ripening the 
wooc l — the best preparation for the next year’s crop. 
