I just noticed in the garden that the xAmarygia are starting to push buds through the ground and it got me to pondering a question. The cross was between a *Brunsvigia josephinae *and *Amaryllis belladonna.* Other than flower color variation the form is very uniform between all the plants growing here. (20+ clones) I am sure that we are growing F3, F4 or further generations from the original crosses. Did the F2 or later generations ever exhibit more of the *Brunsvigia* form? If not why would the *Brunsvigia*genes not express themselves more in some of the progeny of future generations? Has backcrossing to *Brunsvigia* been attempted? Time to do some reading of back issues of Herbertia and other periodicals as well as PBS archive searching. All the best, Michael Homick Stevinson, (Central Valley), California