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IXIOLTRION. [Amaryllidace®.] Prettj hardy bulks, 

 which will grow readily in sandy loam, and are increased by 

 offsets from the parent bulbs. They also bear seeds, by which 

 they may be multiplied. 



IXORA. [Ciuchonaceae.] Noble stove evergreen shrubs. 

 They require a soil of loam and peat earth, and they must be 

 gro\Mi fully exposed to the Hght. The cuttings root easily in 

 bottom heat in sand, a layer of an inch in thickness, and 

 require a bell-glass over them : the sand should rest on a 

 sandy mixture of loam and peat, into which the roots strike 

 and receive nourishment. When well rooted pot them in 

 three-inch pots, and pinch out the growing heart to make the 

 plant bushy. As the roots fill the pots the plants must be 

 removed into others a size larger, and the plants must be 

 kept in a high stove temperature, with the pots plunged in a 

 bed affording a brisk warmth to the roots. About two shifts 

 annually, first to a five-inch pot, then to an eight : a ten-inch 

 and twelve-inch in succession will then carry on the plants 

 to a good blooming size. The pots must be well drained, and 

 good attention afforded as respects water, heat, air, &c., accord- 

 ing to the routine of stove management. The vigorous shoots 

 should be topped while the plant is thus in process of forma- 

 tion, to secure a greater number of branches and the requisite 

 bushiness of growth ; but after this the annual growth must 

 be allowed to develope itself unchecked, the blooms coming 

 in heads at the ends of the stronger shoots. After blooming 

 the plants may be cut into a good shape. They are very 

 liable, as are all evergreen stove shrubs, to the attacks of 

 scale insect and mealy bug. The precautionary measures 

 are to examine frequently to see if there be- any attack of 

 this sort, and, if there be, wash gently vrith a shaving-brush 

 and soap and water, the plants being afterwards syringed to 

 clear them of the soapsuds : this remedy must_ be applied 

 very often if necessary. The noble trusses of bloom come at 

 the ends of the shoots, and come large in proportion to the 

 strength of the shoot ; so that the stopping of the main shoots 

 to produce side ones must be the work of judgment, because 

 it is possible to keep stopping, and thereby increasing the 

 number of shoots, until they are too weak to flower well, if at 

 all. I. alha, flowers white ; /. coccinea, scarlet ; I. crocata, 



