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AMARYLLIS (HIPPEASTRUM) PARDINA. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
This magnificent species of Amaryllis is one of tlie most striking novel¬ 
ties of the past season, perfectly distinct from all the species of Amaryllis 
previously known, and remarkable alike for its form, which is spreading, 
with scarcely any tube, so that the whole inner surface is displayed to view; 
and for its colouring, which reminds one of the spotted varieties of Cal¬ 
ceolaria or of Tydaea, so closely are its perianth segments covered over 
with small dots, more or less irregularly confluent, of crimson red on a 
creamy yellow ground. So distinct a plant, combining as it does great 
beauty with its distinctness, cannot but be a valuable acquisition for our 
gardens. 
The plant is a native of Peru, and was introduced from thence by the 
Messrs. Yeitch & Sons, of Chelsea, through their fortunate collector, Mr. 
Pearce. It was exhibited in bloom at one of the meetings held during 
March of the present year, and was much and deservedly admired. Its 
merits were marked on this occasion by the award of first-class certificate, 
which was in every way deserved. Every grower of hothouse bulbs must 
secure it for his collection. 
Our memoranda, taken from the blooming plant, describe the leaves as 
broadly linear, somewhat blunt, and about 1^- inch broad. The flower-stem 
is robust, terete, and glaucous, supporting two flowers, which issue from a 
spathe of pallid oblong-lanceolate bracts, and are supported on pedicels of 
about inch long. The flowers are widely expanded—6 to 8 inches broad ; 
the tube very short, and fringed within ; the sepaline segments ovate oblong, 
apiculate, the petaline similar, but blunter, all greenish at the base of the 
tube, yellowish white upwards, and there spotted thickly with crimson dots ; 
the stamens decimate, with red filaments and green anthers. 
Being a native of Peru, this species will not require excessive heat; a 
cool stove treatment will be best for it. In other respects its culture will 
be similar to that of other stove Amaryllids, some of which were recently 
noticed in our pages. 
M. 
GARDEN ROSES. 
“ Roses at the exhibitions and Roses in one’s own garden are different 
things,” said an old Rose amateur to me the other day; and so much is 
there in this remark, that having already given a paper on Roses at the 
exhibitions, I turn now to treat of “ Garden Roses.” 
It is, perhaps, scarcely necessary to remark that those who admire Roses 
in all their native loveliness on bush or tree, should hardly choose their 
varieties from the cut specimens met with at the flower shows. Lovely they 
are, it is true—for when and where is the Rose not lovely ?—but there is a 
“ getting up,” a weary look about them, which reminds one of the late 
hours of the ball-room rather than of the charming freshness and native 
simplicity of home life. And how can it be otherwise ? When we consider 
that these Roses have been gathered from fifty to sixty hours before the public 
is admitted to see them, a part of which time they are packed in boxes 
almost immured from air and light, the wonder is that they look as fresh 
as they do. Then, again, the mere exhibitor of Roses runs too much after 
one idea—form, to be a safe guide when choosing for garden decoration. He 
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