Greenhouse and Stuve Plants. 



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 

 l^revious 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-lialf 

 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. 



/. alba. A white-flowered species from 

 India, handsome and distinct, but not so 

 free a grower as the others. 



/. amhoynensis. A very fine species 

 introduced from Amboyna, a good ^'i-ower 

 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 

 masnificent species, and one that when 

 well managed bears freely very large heads 

 of scarlet flowers. Its foliage and habit 

 are also unexceptionable. 



I. Diiffii 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. Griffitliii. This is a large-leaved, erect- 

 growing species from Singapore, with thick 

 leatheiv leaves aud yellowish-red flowers. 



I.jaranica. 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. 



/. 'princefs. A free-growing kind, with 

 pale salmon-coloured flowers, which appear 

 in large bunches. Java. 



/. 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 oa\ti 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 : — 



/. amahilis. 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. 



/. Dixuina. 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. 



/. Fraserii. A free, strong grower, with 

 handsome, large foliage ; the flowers, deep 

 salmon coloured, are large and produced 

 freely. One of the best of the hybiids. 



I. Pilgrimii. A handsome orange-scarlet 

 variety. 



I. Prince of Orange. Another free- 

 growing, orange-red sort. 



/. 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. 



/. Williamsii. This has fine, dark green 

 foliage, is a good giower and Iree 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. 



Insects. — 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 comjdetely free from bug, as 

 I when it gets up into the young flower- 

 ! heads its remo\al can never be ett'ecte<l 

 without injury to the bloom. Eepeated 

 and thorough washings, dippings, or 

 syringings in strong insecticide through 

 Septendjer and October, when the plants 

 are making less growth, if persisted in, 



