AMARYLLIDS. 
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Sanguineum offers a promising parent both by reason of its clear 
beautiful colours, and the comparatively rare genealogy of a cross 
between Rutilo and Vittata ; the last named, though extensively 
grown, I would reject altogether from seed-bearing: it is coarse 
in colour, and has been employed so much that we cannot hope 
for any new feature to distinguish its seedlings. Goweri , an 
hybrid of Striatifolia and Acuminatum , is remarkable for its 
singular reddish-purple flewers, and on this account may be 
desirable. Bellum also having three colours, red, white, and 
purple, may be regarded as promising, it was obtained from 
Sweeti, impregnated with Carnarvoni: for the same reason, 
quadricolor, a variety between Griffini and Aulicum , is to be 
recommended; it is scarlet, green, purple, and white. 
Of the true species, perhaps the best selection may be made 
from such as Rrevifiorum , Ambiguum , Ecjuestris , Solandri/lorum, 
Bulbosum , and Reginum; these, with the exception of the last, 
have been but little tried, they are perhaps less beautiful in them¬ 
selves than some other, but possess more marked characters than 
are to be elsewhere found. 
Some other genera belonging to the order are also well worth 
attention, were it only for their present beautiful forms, par¬ 
ticularly Zephyr anthus, Habranthus , and Crinum. Nor should 
the very lovely Griffinia be overlooked, for was it possible (which 
indeed it may be) to impart the cerulean hues of its species 
among any of the members of the families previously named, a 
very great triumph would be achieved. G. hyacinthina is, I 
think, one of the loveliest winter ornaments of the stove we 
possess. Whatever portion of the order may be grown, the course 
of treatment I have laid down may be taken as the key to the 
management of all derived from a similar latitude; nor do any of 
them differ in a greater respect than the amount of temperature, 
which of course must be determined by the country whence they 
are derived. The secret of flowering them well, is to grow them 
with luxuriance, and afterwards allowing them to become 
perfectly dormant. 
Frederick Vincent. 
Ham Common . 
