answer this description, having multiplied already into a good 
round hundred or more, seldom flowering, and remaining al¬ 
ways very diminutive, there is no doubt of their being the 
N. corusca of Herbert; and mine I have distinguished as 6 co- 
rusca major! a character it is well entitled to, not alone for 
the superior size of its flower, but for that also of its bulb 
and leaves, which latter exceed greatly in width all the other 
Nerines that I possess, and which are so unlike that of the 
spawning variety, that if species were determinable by leaves, 
my variety ought to be a new one. 
“ To the above there only remains to be added, that the 
increase of my variety is now by offsets, at about the rate of 
the Guernsey Lily; and that it is grown in the same house as 
my Disas, Brunsvigias, etc,; that is, it has a temperature in win¬ 
ter from 35° to 45°, with plenty of air when weather permits.” 
Of the great beauty of the flower we think there cannot be 
a second opinion, and its points of superiority to the older 
variety have been clearly put by Mr. Leach. As, like its con¬ 
geners, the bloom is produced before the leaves make their 
appearance, we have not been able to accompany the illus¬ 
tration with a figure of them, but, as our object is to direct 
attention to it as an ornamental plant, very desirable for con¬ 
servatories in the autumnal months, that is a matter of com¬ 
paratively little moment. We can, however, corroborate Mr. 
Leach’s statement from bulbs in our own possession, which he 
most kindly favoured us with. It flourishes in good yellow loam 
with a fair admixture of sand. 
