The "Pink Atamasco Lily" referred to in my article in January number is not merely "pink tinged," but a very bright pink. I have known this plant for twenty years; have received it from Pennsylvania, Delaware and Texas, as A. Atamasco, "Atamasco Lily" and " Spanish Lily;" correspondents in Delaware and Texas expressly stating that it was native. There seems to be a general impression among the correspondents of the Gardeners' Monthly that the Atamasco lily is white only, but Mrs. Thomson in her article in June, '85, quotes from Peter Henderson's "Hand Book of Plants:" "Zephyranthes. - One of the best species is Zephyranthes Atamasco, generally known as Amaryllis Atamasco, and in our cottage gardens as 'Fairy Lily.' This species has beautiful pink flowers which are produced in great abundance throughout the summer".

I copy the following from Wood's "Botany" (an old edition) : "Amaryllis Atamasco. - Atamasco Lily. Spathe 2 cleft, acute; fls. pedicelled; cor. campanulate, with nearly equal petals, sub-erect. Leaves, linear, a foot long; scape, round, 6 inches high; flowers, large, solitary, white and pink. Found in Pennsylvania, south to Carolina".

I will add that I have now the pink kind growing side by side with Mrs. Thomson's white. Now, May 9th, the leaves of each are 6 inches long, and I can see no material difference between them save that those of the pink have a darker shade at the base, but not so much difference as there is in the leaves of other flowers that are variously colored, as Balsams, Snap Dragons, etc.

La Centre, Washington Ter.

[This rosy pink variety is also the one which has long been under cultivation in the vicinity of Philadelphia. - Ed. G. M].