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paler hyaline or transparent mark above the mouth of the tube ; 

 seldom two, but most commonly five or seven. It is one of the 

 handsomest of the Ixias, and like olher sorts becomes handsomer 

 and more branched by cultivation. 



It varies with a short, simple, few-flowered scaj)c, and a dark 

 spot above the windowed or hyaline one, with a lolly, many-spiked, 

 many-flowered scape, and v/ith bright red flowers. 



Culture. — ^These plants may be increased by seeds or oflf-sets. 



The seeds of such sorts as can be procured should be sown in 

 pots filled with light earth, in the sj)ring, plunging them in a mild 

 hot-bed, AVhen the plants have attained some growth, they should 

 be removed into separate pots of the same earth, being placed under 

 the protection of a frame till they have taken rool. They should be 

 placed during the winter in a hot-bed frame. They may afterwards 

 be removed into warm borders, being prolecled from frosts in the 

 winter, and a few retained in pots under the frame, or in u dry 

 stove 



They are three or four years in flowering when raised from seeds. 



The common way is therefore to increase them by planting off- 

 sets from the roots, which are afforded in great plenty ; the proper 

 season for this is in the early spring, before the shooting of the root, 

 when the roots should be removed, and the ofi-sets taken off and 

 planted out. 



The old roots should not be removed oflencr than every three 

 years. 



When the stems and leaves decay to the roots in the borders in 

 autumn, they should be covered over with tan a few inches thick, to 

 protect them from frost and the depredations of mice. 



The hardy sorts serve to adorn the borders in the o\wn ground, 

 and the other tender sorts among other potted green-house plants, 

 that require protection in winter. 



