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THE AMARYLLTD/E 
well made, and remarkably double; the ground-colour is white, 
beautifully spotted and striped with pink, altogether very much re¬ 
sembles a fine picotee carnation. It must be classed with Gray’s In¬ 
vincible, venus, and eclipse, which it also much resembles ; but the 
pink, if I recollect rightly, is darker and in greater abundance than 
in those varieties. It is very scarce, and indeed must remain so for 
a long time yet, few persons being able to pay the price demanded 
for the smallest plants. It was figured in Sweet’s “ British Flower 
Garden,” for June, 1829. 
34. C. jap. Parksii, Park’s striped C. I am personally unac¬ 
quainted with this variety; but am informed, that its chid attraction 
arises from the accident of the flowers being sweet scented. 
35. C. jap. rubricaijlis, Ly. Ab. Campbell C. A pretty but 
variable variety. 
36. C. jap. sabiniana. Sabine’s white C. A plant named in 
honour of Mr. Sabine, late Honorary Secretary to the Horticultural 
Society’s Report speaks highly of this variety, but I am myself un¬ 
acquainted with it. 
37. C. jap. exce'lsa, lofty or nohle C. A pretty white seedling- 
raised at the Tooting Nursery, a few years ago. What quality it 
may possess, which entitles it to be called excelsa , I cannot conjec¬ 
ture. 
38. C. jap. alba simplex, single white C. A plant of slow 
growth, and but of little beauty. However many fine seedlings have 
been procured by impregnation from this variety, and therefore must 
not he despised by those who wish to raise new varieties. 
(To be continued.) 
ARTICLE X. 
CULTURE OF THE NATURAL ORDER AMARYLLIDjE. 
BY ARTHUR. 
Perhaps no family of plants exhibit more brilliancy of colours, 
combined with delightful fragrance than do the flowers of those be¬ 
longing to this order. The lillies of the field have excited admira¬ 
tion from the earliest ages of botanical study, and the accounts which 
have been transmitted to this country by Botanists and other travel¬ 
lers, leave no doubts as to these being the flowers intended. They 
are all bulbous rooted, and differ but little in the figure and general 
appearance of the leaves. The order contains thirty genera, many of 
