Bailey's Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, which was reprinted many times, but seems to have been last changed in 1922, says this about Acidanthera (written by N. Taylor) (I have not copied the descriptions.) bicolor: May be grown in a tub outdoors during summer and flowered within during Oct. Corms should be dried as soon as lifted, to prevent rot. aequinoctialis Baker: Sierra Leone May be a stronger-growing and more tropical form of the above. Requires warmhouse culture candida Rendle: very sweet scented [no cultural information given] The Cyclopedia, first published in 1900, listed only plants currently in the trade in the U.S. and Canada, as "it would manifestly be impossible ... to include all the plants ..in botanic gardens or in the grounds of specialists and amateurs who collect specimens from original sources, or those introduced for... experiment ..or..scientific study". An interesting note from the Preface to the Second Edition: "Many species have been disseminated in an experimental way, as by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the United States Department of Agriculture ...." Ah, those were the days! Diane Whitehead