January 20. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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pool ; and the other two, viruU/lorum and angustifolum, 
by Dr. Herbert, with whom they flowered in 1840-41; 
and there are figures of them in the Botanical Maga¬ 
zine (April, 1841). Ruiz and Pavon found C. viridi- 
Jioncm plentiful in the woods of Huassahuassi, and in 
stony places of Palca, in Peru. They called it Pan¬ 
cratium viridijlorum in the “ Flora Peruviana,” having 
an enormous cup inside the flower. They represent the 
^ scape of this bulb six feet high, bearing four or five 
large flowers, “beautiful, entirely emerald green.” Ruiz's 
i dried specimens of “ this marvellous plant ” were lost 
i by shipwreck. Those that flowered at Spofforth were 
only of ordinai-y size, and the narrow-leaved one seemed 
to be only a variety of the other; both of them green- 
flowered. 
G. spathulatum was gathered some hundreds of miles 
from Truxillo, in Peru. It seemed to like more heat 
[ than the others. The flowers of this species are green 
also, but it never flowered in England, and few could 
grow it except Dr. Herbert, who found it to thrive best 
in loam. The genus seems intermediate between Ismene 
and Cohurghia. Dr. Lindley considers it a true Ismene; 
in fact, a green Peruvian Daffodil, which is not far from 
the mark. 
Any of our young readers who would he content with 
a great name and a little fortune, have only to procure 
specimens of all the Pancratiform-Amaryllids that I hope 
to touch upon in this series, grow them as I shall say, 
and ci'oss them diligently until they disclose their real 
affinities, and fill our borders with the gayest flowers 
in the country. 
Let us now see what Pancratium-like, or Pancratiform 
alias Paucratioid, means, having thus incidentally men¬ 
tioned the word. One who knew as much about one 
I flower as another, could see no difference between a 
j Lily and an Amaryllis; and there is a kind of Lily and 
' a kind of Amaryllis, which, if a flower of each was 
gathered, and the “private mark” kept out of sight, 
there is not a man on earth who could tell, with cer¬ 
tainty, which was the Lily, or which the Amaryllis ; yet, 
j by showing the private mark, a child could learn in two 
j minutes to know any Lily from any Amaryllis, iu any 
part of the world. The private mark is, that in all the 
lilyworts, the seed-pod is in the inside of the flower, at 
the bottom, as in the tulip. The Amaryllids have the 
seed-pod always on the outside of the flower, like a 
Fuchsia. In Fuchsia microphylla, the opening of the 
flower is only an eighth-of-an-inch from the end of the 
seed-pod or berry, whereas the opening of the flower of 
Fuchsia corymhifiora is four or five inches from the 
berry, and so it is with flowers of the Amaryllids ; some 
have long tubes to the flowers. I shall mention one 
whose tube is more than ten inches long, and some have 
hardly any tube, and the rest have tubes of different 
lengths; still, it is easily seen whether the seeds are to 
be inside the flower or outside; and so, if it is a Lily or 
an Amaryllid. Now, besides this mai-k of distinction, 
the flowers of an Amaryllid take after three particular 
forms, each of which is as easy to know as the berry or 
pod-mark. The first form is called after the DaSbdil, 
Narcissiform. A single Daffodil looks as if two flowers 
were grown into one ; the inside one is called the cup, 
or coronet, and in olden times, the nectariura. This 
! inside cup diminishes, in different kinds, until all that 
can be seen of it is a mere ring at the bottom; but 
I whatever the length or the size of the cup, all the plants 
i in the section have their stamens growing inside the 
; cup, and free from it, so that you could cut away the 
[ flower and the cup without hurting the stamens. Every 
bulb in the world, with a cup inside the flower, or the 
mere rudiments of a cup, and having the stamens free 
fi'om the cup, belongs to this Daffodil section. There 
' never was a more simple thing to learn than this, except 
j the next great section of Amaryllids, which also has a 
cup inside the flower; and here, likewise, the cup takes 
different forms and sizes in different kinds, but still 
there is a cuju and to the inside of this cup all the 
stamens are fastened the whole way up, and at regular 
distances all round the flower. If you were to split a 
flower of this kind the stamens must come with it, and 
if you now tear off the flower itself, and keep the cup 
with its six stamens (they are almost always six), the 
thing would look like the foot of a duck, the stamens 
representing the toes, and the cup the web part of the 
foot. Then what is to hinder any one, who can distin¬ 
guish a duck’s foot from the hoof of an ass, from know¬ 
ing to which of these two sections a flower belongs as 
soon as he sees it? This hoof is the same as the cup 
without the stamens, and the web-foot the cup with the 
stamens ; the hoof is the Daffodil section, and the web- 
foot the Pancratium section. But the third and last 
section is even more simple than these two, for there is 
no cup at all; nothing but the outside flower (perianth) 
and the stamens, with the seed-pod outside the flower, 
as in the Fuchsia. This is called the Amaryllis-form 
section. All the bulbs in existence, if the seed-pod is 
on the outside of the flower, must belong to one of these 
three great divisions. Therefore it is most essential for 
young people “ to learn this by heart.” If the English 
people, who went over first to Peru, were to know these 
three simple things, or even two of them, they would 
have never fallen into such a glaring mistake as to call 
Ismene, the Peruvian Daffodil, because Ismene has the 
stamens joined to the cup, and a large cup it is too, and 
very wide in the mouth, so that they could see the dif¬ 
ference with one eye. In these days, however, people 
would not be let off so easily; and in a few more years, 
if the world kee])s going round so fast as it does now, 
depend upon it that any one going to a strange ])lace, 
who could not explain, or talk about the simplest ele¬ 
ments of the principal branches of Natural History, he 
or she would be set down as of low breeding, and would 
be talked of all over the place in more ways than one. 
Let us, therefore, this very season, begin with the Snow¬ 
drops, and not rest satisfied until we can tell the orders 
to which every bulb belongs which comes in our way 
in flower. D. Beaton. 
HARDY STOVE PLANTS, THAT WILL DECO¬ 
RATE A WARM GREENHOUSE IN WINTER 
AND SPRING. 
M any of our subscribers have a small house, near 
their mansion, appropriated to plants, and which, for the 
purpose of securing winter bloom, and their own per¬ 
sonal comfort, they kept at a temperature at night rang¬ 
ing from 45'^ to 50°, with an increase of 10° or 15° during 
the day, when a bright sun shines. Many, besides this 
desideratum, even if not possessed of a regular plant- 
stove, have a forcing-house, hotbeds, or pits, where, with 
a little scheming, a higher temperature can be obtained, 
in spring and autumn, than in a greenhouse where a 
general collection is growing and blooming. To suit 
their case, so far as to enable them to have the greatest 
quantity of bloom iu one place, will be the aim of the 
present paper, even though we should be obliged to 
refer to plants that have hitherto received I'ather marked 
attention from us. 
Though a high temperature and a moist atmosphere 
are essential to the growth of most plants from warm 
latitudes, it is a mistake to suppose that they can 
only bo seen in bloom under similar circumstances. 
Many of them may be so managed as to induce them 
to bloom in summer; and then, while some require 
house treatment, many others will bloom freely out- 
of-doors. Others that will not bloom in winter, will 
stand longer in such a house as I have indicated 
