176 ORNAMENTAL GARDENING 
Hippeastrum, formerly Amaryllis. Glorious bulbous plants 
that generally do well in Florida. They grow best in rich, damp 
soil but succeed somewhat in good pine land. with plenty of 
fertilizer and mulching. Nehrling raises his wonderful hybrids 
at Gotha under slats in the rich, moist border of a lake. They 
are superb, and H. johnsont, H. equestre and H. reginae are also 
fine. 
Hemerocallis, yellow day lilies, are old favorites in the north 
and do well in all but the warmest part of the state. So do the 
Funkias. 
Hyacinths which generally flourish throughout the south are 
reported as doing finely at Chipley by Pleas and at Fernandina 
by MacLaren but Schnabel says they fail at Gainesville and 
Reasoner makes a like report for Oneco. 
Impatiens sultani and its varieties are beautiful flower- 
ing plants which do fairly well in rich soil in lower Florida but are 
especially subject to root knot. I have seen splendid specimens 
at Rita on the south shore of Lake Okeechobee. When troubled 
with root knot make cuttings of the tops and burn the roots. 
Iresine or Achyranthes are well-known plants with highly 
colored leaves, much grown at the north for bedding. They do 
fairly well here in good soil, especially when they are irrigated, 
but they are subject to root knot. 
Iris do better in the cooler part of the state than in the lower 
end. Pleas states that they succeed at Chipley. There is a 
fine lot, probably J. hexagona, at Cocoanut Grove. 
Jacobinia. The species of this and allied genera are in a sad 
muddle and names are all mixed up. J. magnifica is probably 
the old Justicia carnea. J. velutina is much like it but the leaves 
are velvety. The plant sold by the name of J. coccinea in Florida 
isnot that. I haven’t the literature to straighten out the tangle 
of the family Acanthaceae. There are several plants cultivated 
in Florida belonging to this family that I can not name. 
Jatropha multifida is a fine plant with palmate, dissected leaves, 
cut something like those of a rose Geranium, and cymes of vivid, 
coral-like crimson flowers. J. curcas, French Physic Nut, is a 
soft-wooded plant, sometimes almost tree-like, which has or- 
namental foliage. The fruit is very poisonous. 
