Doctor Darwin, in bis Loves of the Plants, dis- 
tinctly notes this position of the flowers of Amaryllis. 
He even compares them to a weathercock. 
“ When heaven’s high vault condensing clouds deform, 
Fair Amaryllis flies the incumbent storm, 
Seeks with unsteady step the shelter’d vale, 
And turns her blushing beauties from the gale, 
— So shines at eve the sun-illumined fane, 
Lifts its bright cross, and waves its golden vane ; 
From every breeze the polish’d axle turns. 
And high in air the dancing meteor burns.” 
The flower of Zephyranthes Atamasco is extremely 
neat and delicate in appearance, and the plant being’ 
altogether of low stature, it may be considered better 
suited to pot culture, than to the mixture, in com- 
mon, with other subjects in the parterre. 
It succeeds admirably when planted in sandy loam, 
with the addition of one fourth part of peat. A warm 
sheltered situation should be chosen for it, or the oc- 
casional protection of a large flower-pot, or a hand- 
glass may be afforded it, in a severe winter. 
It is not unfrequently recommended that bulbs, 
which are somewhat tender, be planted eight or nine 
inches deep, that they may, the more certainly es- 
cape the effects of cold. We think this practice only 
the choice of two evils, — that of losing the plant, 
or retaining it without flowers. It is certain that 
most bulbs will not flower in perfection, when plant- 
ed deeply in the earth ; and also, that many bulbs, 
having a tendency, from their mode of reproduction, 
annually to descend, require to be taken up every 
second or third year, and planted at less depth, or no 
flowers will be produced. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 223. 
