available now at reduced prices. This season we are making a special offer of five 
bulbs of the separate shades at $10.00 postpaid, including pure white, rose-pink and 
scarlet, as long as these are available. 
Amaryllis has been our main business here at Lakemont Gardens in the lake 
section of Central Florida, for more than 15 years. Our bulb farm is on the east 
side of Winter Park, a delightful college town, the spiritual and cultural capital of 
the state, and possessing the finest soil and climate for Hybrid Amaryllis in all the 
world, bar none. It is also the best year-round climate for flower lovers and other 
- people, and is one of the fastest growing sections of the country. Write the Winter 
Park chamber of commerce for more information. We have Rollins College in 
Winter Park and many other attractions. 
What's In A Name? 
Amaryllis:—“The name of a rustic beauty in the Idylls of Theocritus and in the 
Eclogues of Virgil,” says the Readers Handbook. Even Milton has a line—“to sport 
with Amaryllis in the shade.” Personally we would prefer the half shade of a lath 
house, which is where we do most of our own sporting with our Amaryllis of various 
strains. 
The name Amaryllis was given to this great genus of ornamental tropical Ameri- 
can bulbs by the master systematist, Linnaeus, in 1753 in his “Species Plantarum,” 
although he had used the name earlier in his Hortus Cliffortianus, a book describing 
the plants in a certain Lord’s garden, published in 1737. The type species or primary 
species of Amaryllis is Amaryllis belladona, Linn., and for many years the true 
identity of this species was obscured by certain unscientific, fantastic imaginings of 
the worthy Dean William Herbert of Spofforth, England, the greatest annotator on 
the Amaryllis family to date, and otherwise most sound and interesting in his ob- 
servations and judgements. 
Anyway, Dean Herbert seems to have gone off the track in his study of the 
genus Amaryllis, and rashly invented the new name Hippeastrum for our lovely 
species of Amaryllis. Dean Herbert was a voluminous and portentous writer, and a 
formidable foe in the jousts of botanical argument. So it may be from this cause 
that his Hippeastrum has persisted for many generations in the nomenclature of our 
lovely Amaryllis. 
But the wrong has at long last been righted through the efforts of modern 
botanical researchers, and anyone interested can check the story in half a dozen 
publications in the last 20 years. Only just recently Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey and 
his Bailey Hortorium gave the weight of their official sanction to the restoration 
of the name Amaryllis for the beautiful American bulbs. The whole story is 
long and complicated, and while fascinating, is of interest only to the student in 
plant history and nomenclature. If you are sincerely interested, write to the 
secretary of the American Plant Life Society, Mr. E. Frederick Smith, Box 2398, 
Stanford, Calif., sending $4.00 for a copy of the new Traub and Moldenke mono- 
graph on the genus Amaryllis (“Amaryllidaceae: Tribe Amarylleae”), which reviews 
the whole matter extensively. It is fascinating reading for those somewhat botanically 
inclined and horticulturists interested in the proper nomenclature of their plants and 
bulbs. Other minor genera included in this monograph are Lycoris, Griffinia, Wors- 
leya, Placea, Ungernia and Lepidopharynx, besides the valuable review of all known 
species of Amaryllis. Amaryllis fans are urged to become members of the American 
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