Plate 282 . 
NERINE FOTHERGILLII. 
Although our object is to introduce new plants and dowers 
to our readers in each of the various departments of horti¬ 
culture, there are times when we think it well to remind them, 
that in the search for novelties and love of new things, there 
are oftentimes some of very old date which have been so 
utterly neglected and put on one side, and yet which are of 
such excellence, that it is worth while now and then to bring 
them into notice, and it may be into favour. Amongst these 
we must number the beautiful tribe of Nerines, and having 
recently met with examples of the old and favourite bulb, A. 
Fothergillii , which exhibited some departure in colour from 
their normal condition, we have thought it well to figure it, 
certainly not as a novelty, but as an interesting decorative plant 
which ought to receive more attention than it has met with. 
That Cape bulbs, as they are generally called, should have 
been so little cultivated of late years, does not speak well for 
the taste of our horticulturists. The gorgeously beautiful 
tribe of Amaryllids are much more in favour on the Continent 
than they are with us, and we saw last summer, at M. Louis 
Van Houtte’s, at Ghent, tens of thousands of these lovely 
flowers in every state of progress, and heard from him, that 
they are very much in request in France and Germany. Col¬ 
lections are sometimes exhibited by Mr. Parker, of Tooting, 
and Mr. Cutbush, of Highgate, but as a rule, they are very 
unfrequently seen. At one of the floral meetings of the Royal 
Horticultural Society in September last, Messrs. Paul, of 
Cheshunt, exhibited a collection of this very bulb, and the 
remark was then made that it was a great pity that it was not 
more generally cultivated, Then how gracefully delicate is 
