ijprfktlltt fotmos’tssima. Natural Order: Amaryllidacecc—Amaryllis Family. 
UMEROUS varieties of these beautiful tropical bulbs are to 
be found with florists and seedsmen, the most common 
being, perhaps, those known as the Atamasco, Belladonna, 
and Jacobea lilies, from their superb, lily-like flowers. There 
are, however, about a hundred and fifty others, differing in 
their coloring, time of blooming, or shape of flower, that are 
worthy all the enthusiasm they have inspired. The root is similar 
to a large onion, either tapering upward or flattened, according to 
the species; the leaves thick, long and narrow; the flower-stalk 
about a foot high. They are grown in pots, either as window or 
greenhouse plants. The Amaryllis receives its name from a nymph, 
mentioned in the Eclogues of Virgil, where Corydon thinks the 
cruel anger and proud disdain of Amaryllis was easier to bear than 
the cool indifference of Alexis, whom he so madly loved. 
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T)RIDE, self-adorning pride, was primal cause 
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Of all sin past, all pain, all woe to come. 
TTTAKEN, thou fair one! up, Amaryllis! 
** Morning so still is; 
Cool is the gale; 
The rainbow of heaven, 
With its hues seven, 
Brightness hath given 
To wood and dale; 
Sweet Amaryllis, let me convey thee; 
In Neptune’s arms naught shall affray thee; 
Sleep’s god no longer power has to stay thee, 
Over thy eyes and speech to prevail. 
—Carl Michael Bellman. 
— Pollock. 
TTOW poor a thing is pride! when all, as slaves, 
1 Differ but in their fetters, not their graves. 
— Daniel. 
'THOUGH various foes against the truth combine 
Pride, above all, opposes her design; 
Pride, of a growth superior to the rest, 
The subtlest serpent, with the loftiest crest, 
Swells at the thought, and kindling into rage, 
Would hiss the cherub Mercy from the stage. 
— Cowper. 
T ’LL go along, no such sight to be shown, 
But to rejoice in splendor of mine own. 
— Shakespeare. 
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