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IXORA. 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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them into larger ones if requisite. A 
large-sized specimen will require a pot 
18 inches or 20 inches in diameter. To 
facilitate their blooming early in spring, 
say by the beginning of May, whatever 
potting has to be done it will be better to 
carry out about the beginning or middle of 
September, which will give time for the 
roots to get established in the new soil 
before winter. About a month or so 
previous to potting any cutting in that 
may be required should be effected. They 
will bear a free use of the knife, even to 
the extent of reducing them to one-half 
their size. This has the effect of promoting 
the growth of strong shoots, which produce 
the finest heads of flowers, and which are 
much better than numbers of little blooms 
borne by plants allowed to get too large 
and full of weak growths. Managed as 
described, Ixoras will go on for almost an 
indefinite period. We have cultivated 
individual plants for twenty years, and 
have had them as strong and vigorous then 
as during the earlier portion of their 
existence. 
I. alba. A white-flowered species from 
India, handsome and distinct, but not so 
free a grower as the others. 
I. amboynensis. A very fine species 
introduced from Amboyna, a good grower 
and free bloomer, bearing a profusion of 
large orange-yellow heads. It is of a 
bushy, broad, spreading habit. | Young 
specimens of this variety are preferable to 
old plants. 
I. coccinea, from Eastern India, is a 
magnificent species, and one that when 
well managed bears freely very large heads 
of scarlet flowers. Its foliage and habit 
are also unexceptionable. 
I. Duffit is a distinct species from the 
South Sea Islands. In habit it is not un- 
like I. Lobbii. The leaves, which are of 
ample size, are of a beautiful deep green. 
Some of them measure as much as 10 
inches in length. In colour the flowers 
are deep red, with a slight shade of crim- 
son as they get older ; it forms immense 
trusses. 
I. Groffithiv. This is a large-leaved, erect- 
growing species from Singapore, with thick 
leathery leaves aud yellowish-red flowers. 
I. javanica. ‘This is the freest grower of 
any which we have cultivated, and it is 
equally free in flowering, bearing a pro- 
fusion of orange-yellow trusses that open 
almost simultaneously. It does not flower 
so freely for some time after being severely 
cut in as the other kinds. From Java. 
I. princeps. A free-growing kind, with 
pale salmon-coloured flowers, which appear 
in large bunches. Java. 
I. salicifolia. This comes from Borneo. 
Its flower-trusses are large, but somewhat 
thinner than those of the preceding, they 
are orange-scarlet in colour ; the leaves, as 
its name implies, are of a long Willow-like 
shape. It generally succeeds better when 
grafted than on its own roots, the best 
stock we have found for it being I. 
Javanica. 
The following, which we believe are all 
garden hybrids, are most beautiful, free- 
flowering kinds :— 
I. amabilis. A strong, compact grower, 
with dark green leaves and very large 
flower-heads, dark orange in colour and 
produced freely. 
I. Colei. This has dark green, somewhat 
ovate leaves, and produces large, dense 
heads of white flowers in profusion. 
I. Dixiana. A vigorous-growing, free- 
flowering sort, the flowers are of a salmon- 
orange colour. One of the best for winter 
blooming. The plant will bear a lower 
temperature than most others. 
I. Fraserti. <A free, strong grower, with 
handsome, large foliage ; the flowers, deep 
salmon coloured, are large and produced 
freely. One of the best of the hybrids. 
I. Pilgrimit. A handsome orange-scarlet 
variety. 
I. Prince of Orange. 
growing, orange-red sort. 
I. profusa. Is of moderate growth, the 
flower-trusses large, pale salmon colour. 
I. regina. Flowers very deep salmon 
colour. The plant is of a close, compact 
habit ; a very effective variety. 
I, Williamsi. This has fine, dark green 
foliage, is a good grower and free flowerer, 
producing a profusion of blossoms of a 
dark orange-red colour. 
There are several other species and 
varieties in cultivation, but the above are 
the best and sufficient for all ordinary 
purposes. 
Iysrcts.—Ixoras are very liable to the 
attacks of brown scale and mealy bug, 
which, if not either completely eradicated 
or kept well in check, entail a great deal 
of labour from the rapidity with which 
they increase in consequence of the strong 
heat which the plants require, and of a 
natural partiality of the insects for them. 
To do full justice to the plants, and to pre- 
serve their flowers in full beauty, they 
must be kept completely free from bug, as 
when it gets up into the young flower- 
heads its removal can never be effected 
without injury to the bloom. Repeated 
and thorough washings, dippings, or 
syringings in strong insecticide through 
September and October, when the plants 
are making less growth, if persisted in, 
Another free- 
