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riety sulphurea has paler 

 flowers, and is supposed 

 to be a cross between 

 Amancaes and I. cola- 

 thina. Native of Peru. 



I. Andreana — a beautiful 

 new species ; bears clus- 

 ters of large white flowers, 

 having cups fully three 

 inches across. It flowers 

 in summer, and some- 

 times during autumn and 

 winter. It requires a 

 stove or a worm green- 

 house. I. tenuifolia is a 

 similar species, also new, 

 and at present rare in gar- 

 dens. 



I. calathina (the Sea Baifo- 

 dil) is similar to Andreana, 

 the large, fragrant, white 

 flowers being borne in 

 umbels of three or four 

 blooms, produced in May 



and June. Being found in 

 Chili and Buenos Ayres, 

 it is hardier than the rest, 

 and may be grown in the 

 open air in some parts of 

 this country. Bean Her- 

 bert used to plant bulbs 

 in deep holes in a sandy 

 border in April, putting 

 white sand around the 

 bulbs when planting. The 

 most satisfactory results, 

 however, may be obtained 

 by growing it in large 

 deep pots in a cool green- 

 house. It is such a beau- 

 tiful and fragrant plant, 

 that it well deserves any 

 attention that may bo 

 bestowed upon it. Less 

 common tinds are I. 

 nutans, I. virescens, I. 

 pedunculata, and I. Hac- 

 leana. 



Ixia. — ^Although there is now such a great variety 

 in the Ixias, there are only about twenty distinct 

 species. These have become so intercrossed by 

 hybridising that only a few now remain unaltered, 

 such as I. crateroides, and viridi^ora, the colour 

 of the latter being a sort of sea-green. The 

 species may be classed in two groups, the first 

 comprising those with flowers having a dark 

 blotch on the base of each petal ; the second, those 

 whose flowers are spotless. Among the principal 

 species are the f oUowing :-r /. aristata^ deep rose- 

 pink, pale centre ; anemoiKsflora^ of variable colour ; 

 eraieroides, or speciosa^ beautiful deep rose-pink ; 

 Gm-ta, red, with purple centre ; columellaris, bright 

 red, crimson centre ; fucata, white or yellowish ; 

 fkxitosaj flowers small, and variable in colour ; 

 hyhrida, white, purple centre. These may be called 

 the types from which the numerous varieties now 

 enumerated in seedsmen's catalogues have been 

 derived. The following selection includes the prin- 

 cipal varieties : — 



Alliance — deep crimson. 

 Amelia— pink and orange. 

 Aurantiaca major— yellow. 

 Aurora— bright pink. 

 Beauty of Nortolk — pale 



yellow, flushed magenta. 

 Brutus — maroon-crim son. 

 Cleopatra — white, pink eye. 

 Conqueror — rose-pink, dark 



centre. 

 Crateroides — brilliant rose. 

 Delieata— pale yellow. 

 Diana — white and purple. 

 Eveline— white and magenta. 

 Faunas- orange-yel low. 

 Garibaldi — rose and purple. 



Golden Drop— deep yellow. 



Hector — rose, black centre. 



Ida — orange and crimson. 



Magnifica— yellow and rose. 



Nosefjay— white and rose. 



Prestios — ^white and crim- 

 son. 



Silas— yellow and crimson. 



Sunbeam — yellow, tipped 

 red. 



Theseus — white, shaded 

 crimson. 



Viridiflora— sea-green, dark 

 centre. 



Vulcan — crimson. 



Wonder—rose-pink. 



Culture. — Ixias may be grown either in open beds 

 in warm, sheltered spots, or in frames; a light, 

 sandy, and well-drained soil, and an open sunny 

 situation, are what they require. The chief atten- 

 tion required is protecting the tender growth in 

 spring from late frosts and drying winds. When 



planted in open beds protected during the winter by 

 wooden shutters, until the foliage is above ground, 

 protection in early spring may be afforded by a few 

 evergreen, boughs of trees such as the Spruqe. The 

 bulbs may be bought in September, and should be 

 planted at once. They are easily propagated by 

 offsets and seeds, but increasing the stock of 

 such bulbs as these is not profitable, seeing that 

 they may be purchased at such a cheap rate — from 

 two shillings to five shillings per dozen, and mixed 

 unnamed sorts as low as five shillings per hundred. 

 Ixia^ may also be grown in pots for green-house 

 decoration, and under this treatment they may be 

 gently forced into flower earlier than the bulbs 

 planted in frames. 



TEEES AND SHEUBS. 



By Geokge Nicholson. 



Jasminiun. — Several of the hardy Jessamines 

 — by far the larger prop'ortion of the 120 

 species of the genus are stove or green-house 

 plants — are amongst the prettiest of trailers. J. 

 fioriditm, or, as it is sometimes called, J. subu- 

 latum, has pinnately trifoliolate leaves, and lax 

 cymes of yellow flowers, with long calyx teeth; a 

 native of China. /. fruticans is a small-leaved, 

 hardy evergreen fi'om Southern Europe, attaining, 

 under favourable conditions, a ieight of ten or 

 twelve feet, and making a dense bush in the 

 ordinary shrubbery border. J. humile, another 

 South European species, is nearly allied to the 

 last-named, but is of smaller stature and humble- 

 growth. J. nudifioruni, a plant introduced from 

 China some forty years ago, is now widely cul- 

 tivated, and is with justice looked upon as one of 

 the best of deciduous trailers for winter and spring 

 flowering. If planted amongst Ivy, or soipe other 

 evergreen, such as Yew, &c., its long, flexible 

 branches, clothed throughout their length with large 

 yellow flowers, are much more beautiful with their 

 setting, or background, of green. J. officinale, the 

 only really hardy white-flowered Jessamine, has 

 several garden varieties, including variegated and 

 double ones — the best of all is /. o. affine, which has 

 a more copiou|,'inflorescence and larger flowers than 

 the type, which, in a wild state, is found from 

 Northern India to Persia, but is now naturalised 

 in the South of Europe, &c. /. revolutwm has com- 

 pound, terminal corymbs of large, bright yellow 

 flowers, produced throughout the summer and 

 autumn months. A native of India. 



Juglans ( Walnuts). — There are only about half a 



