April 14, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
517 
Brion, and they are deep crimson shaded with 
maroon in the throat: The rays of La Belle are 
wide and run to the apex of the segments, so that the 
scarlet colour of the segments is distributed towards 
their margins. On the contrary, Avontes is of a 
brilliant scarlet shaded with maroon in the throat. 
The lighter coloured varieties are very interesting. 
segments only. A delicate and fancy flower is 
Saraband, with white flowers lightly suffused with 
scarlet like crushed strawberry. A tall variety is 
Pitho, bearing four flowers that are white and much 
netted with clear rose. It is certainly delicate and 
handsome. The white flowers of Idomoneus are 
lightly netted with red on the upper segments. 
widely expanded, brilliant crimson flowers of 
Vandyke, single it out as a variety of considerable 
merit. Rodney is heavily blotched or marbled with 
white on a scarlet ground, while the rays run to the 
apex and characterise it as a variegated sort of great 
decorative value. A bold looking and bright 
scarlet, bell-shaped flower of great size is Renown. 
The Best Type of Amaryllis. 
and continue to improve steadily. The finest of 
this group is Cleola, bearing three magnificent 
flowers, the ground colour of which is pure white, 
not creamy white, and striated with rose veins. The 
segments are of great breadth and much imbricated. 
It is certainly an acquisition, and is flowering for 
the first time. Cecilia is another good thing, and a 
great improvement in shape upon Her Majesty and 
Finette, which used to be considered the finest types 
of the nearly white flowers. The first-named is 
creamy-white, lightly striated with red on the upper 
Older Varieties. 
We noted only a few of the more striking of all the 
kinds, and the undermentioned sorts in most cases 
are only one or two years old, in fact many of them 
flowered last year for the first time. A beautiful 
flower is The Princess, lightly veined with red on 
the edges of the segments, but particularly on two 
of the inner ones. More handsome even is Princess 
May, which is heavily netted with scarlet on a white 
ground, with crimson blotches at the very base of 
the tube. The dwarf habit and medium sized. 
Pretty and delicate is Titan, bearing seven flowers 
upon two scapes; the segments are clear white, 
netted towards the sides with soft orange scarlet. 
The rays of Perle run to the apex, and the rest is 
closely lined with deep red on a white ground. The 
huge bright scarlet flowers of Landseer are netted 
with darker coloured veins. Another grand flower 
is Socrates, which was honoured with a certificate 
some time ago. The plant is of dwarf habit with a 
medium-sized brilliant dark crimson flower inten¬ 
sified to maroon in the throat. A beautifully regular 
