Plate 159 . 
AMARYLLIS REGINA SPECTABILIS. 
The various species which go under the popular name of Lilies, 
from the sweet little modest Lily-of-the-Valley to the gorgeous 
gold-banded Lily of Japan, are very general favourites, and dif¬ 
fering though they do in character, yet are sure to find their ad¬ 
mirers. Among them the tribe of Amaryllids, remarkable for 
their beautiful and brilliant colouring, as w 7 ell as for the varie¬ 
ties contained in them, are not so generally grown as they ought, 
we think, to be; for wdiere there is the convenience of an inter¬ 
mediate house their culture is very easy, and a brilliant display 
is sure to rew T ard the growers. We have seen them so grown 
abroad; and the collection exhibited by Mr. James Cutbush, 
of Highgate, this spring, will be in the recollection of many of 
our readers, the bulbs being amongst the finest we ever recollect 
to have seen. 
The following notice of this very fine variety has been kindly 
forwarded to us by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of Wel¬ 
lington Nursery, St. John’s Wood, in whose nursery it has 
flowered amongst a miscellaneous seedling-group of generally 
fine character, but of which this was considered the finest va¬ 
riety :— 
“ In the absence of certain evidence of its affinity, from its 
florid and well-marked features, we should infer it to be the 
production of a third cross of A. regina with A. spectabilis , and 
again fertilized with A. josittacina or its allied forms. 
“ In habit it is of a free robust growth, deciduous in charac¬ 
ter, and consequently adapted for producing successive bloom 
at stated periods by observing a corresponding treatment. It 
affords a valuable illustration of the rich diversity of feature 
