Those friends who are calling attention to the merits of this exquisite tribe of flowers, are doing good service to flower lovers.' Recently we saw a very pretty kind in the window of a lady, that had a flower-scape of about a foot high, and had four large flowers on the two scapes. These flowers were about four inches over, and of a reddish orange, with a green "star" towards the base of the perianth or flower cup. The upper (broad) divisions were recurved, the lower (the central one very narrow) not recurving, and hence giving the flower an irregular form, rare in Amaryllis. It is evidently one of the many varieties of Hippeastrum bulbulosum, and perhaps the one once known as a distinct species under the name of Amaryllis rutila. Flowering as this does in March, it is just the kind of plant to be desirable for window plant growers. We do not know that it is to be had in the florists' trade, though our lady friend thinks among amateur gardeners it "ought to be common enough." Its native home is Brazil.