ALSTRCEME'RI A PELEGRINA. 
SPOTTED ALSTRCEMERIA. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
AMARYLLIDACEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Peru. 
1 foot. 
June, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1753. 
No. 435. 
The title of the present genus was adopted by 
Linneus, in honour of his friend, Baron Alstrcemer, 
who sent him seeds from Spain, of the very species 
now before us. It is stated of the great naturalist, 
that in his anxiety for the winter preservation of 
the seedling plants of this newly-acquired trans- 
atlantic beauty, he made them nurslings of his own 
bedchamber. Pelegrina is its common name in 
Peru, which signifies a superb flower. 
The Alstroemeria pelegrina is beautiful. It has 
usually been treated as a greenhouse plant, and it 
certainly deserves any care that can be advantage- 
ously bestowed on it. It is, however, half-hardy, 
requiring only the cold frame. 
If it be treated as a border plant, the situation 
should be warm and dry, and the soil made very 
light, by a free admixture of leaf mould, sand, and 
the sifted mortar rubbish of an old building. A 
glazed frame, similar to a cucumber frame, forms 
a neat winter protection; beneath which, other half- 
hardy plants may also have a place. Under pot 
culture it does not increase and ripen seeds so 
freely as when planted out with due care. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 303. 
