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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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frame, and in a few days, by their starting into growth, it was 
perceived that a perfect union had been effected. They were 
then taken to the intermediate house and carefully shaded for a 
few days, after which growth became more vigorous. Being 
carefully repotted and allowed to remain in the same tempera¬ 
ture they soon formed perfect heads about 2 feet in diameter, 
having all the autumn and winter been loaded with their pretty 
variegated foliage and their handsome pendulent flowers. Plants 
grown in this manner are invaluable for dinner-table or room 
decoration, their clear stems allowing an uninterrupted view 
was a noticeable want of substance. This variety shows, however, a 
great advance in many characters. The ground is clear white, the stripes 
and netting evenly defined, hold, and of a rich rose colour, extremely 
effective in contrast with the crimson and scarlet varieties. These striped 
flowers are very useful, as when arranged in a general collection they 
impart a much-needed lightness and diversity of colouring. Much atten¬ 
tion is being paid to these varieties now, and it is highly probable that a 
considerable improvement will be effected amongst them in future years. 
The beautiful new variety named Adelina Patti which is noted in 
Pig. 75. —Amaryllis Countess of Rosebery. 
across the table or room, being here much admired for their neat 
and graceful habit. I would add in conclusion that this mode 
of growing the A. vexillarium type is not so original as I at 
first anticipated ; but to those who have not tried it I trust these 
few hints may be useful to procure plants that are at once 
handsome, useful, and cannot fail to be appreciated.—A Young 
Gardener. 
AMARYLLIS COUNTESS OF ROSEBERY. 
The Amaryllis figured in this Journal last week was a good example of 
the improved Leopoldi type, which includes most of the varieties with the 
best formed flowers. That now presented (fig. 75), is a novelty in another 
distinct group—namely, the striped or vittata varieties, which generally 
have flowers rather angular in form, and in the earliest departures there 
another column is of the same type as Countess of Rosebery. Both are 
from Messrs. Veitch’s collection. 
SEEDLING OXLIPS. 
I send by this post a box, which I hope will arrive safely, containing 
specimens of my seedling Oxlips. At the top is an umbel of the old 
English Oxlip, then below the moss seedlings raised from the 
Oxlip and seed saved from Oxlip seedlings. I send a single flower from 
every plant except three, which are not yet in flower. Four of seedlings 
produce umbels and single flowers. Would you advise me to save seed 
from seedlings for another experiment ?—A. Fitch. 
[Although Col. Clarke stated at the meeting of the Scientific Com¬ 
mittee of the Royal Horticultural Society last week that he had often 
tried to cross the Cowslip with the Primrose but always failed, yet the 
flowers before us have all the characteristics of both the Primrose and the 
