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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



the other, but though not a larger bulb, it proved infinitely 

 the stronger plant. 



Ixia Pulchra. MSS. Ixia maculatay. Ker in Bot. Mag. 

 n. 549- cum Ic. Ixia maculata. Kenn. in Bot. Rep. n. 29 cum Ic. 



In the Botanical Magazine, it is said that this species is 

 not very tender : on the contrary, I have found that both 

 this and several others nearly allied to it, require more nice 

 attention on the part of the gardener, than any whatever in 

 this vast genus. It will indeed exist, and even flower, if no 

 frost reaches it ; but to have it in full beauty, about three 

 bulbs should be planted in a fourth sized pot of sandy soil 

 mixed with a little peat, drained principally with sifted roots, 

 and placed, after February, on the front shelf of a dry stove : 

 with such treatment I have had the stems five feet high, and 

 weighed down with flowers. 



Ixia Serotina. Prodr. 35. Ixia erecta. Ker in Bot. Mag. 

 n. 623. cum Ic. Ixia polystachia. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. p. 51. 

 Ixia foliis, &c. Ph. Mill. Ic. p. 104. t. 155./. 2. 



This is certainly a more hardy species ; and the name of 

 Serotina was suggested by Mr. Francis Masson, who told 

 me that it was one of the latest at the Cape 



Die hone Crispa. Laws. Cat. p. 6. Ixia Crispa. Ker in 

 Bot. Mag. n. 599. cum Ic. Ixia crispa. Thunb. Diss n. 8. t. 2. 

 /.3. 



Few people have patience to cultivate this beautiful little 

 plant, the largest bulbs of which are not much bigger than a 

 Barley-corn. It will thrive in the south window of any warm 

 room, endure the surface of the earth to be frozen, and as 

 many as ten or a dozen bulbs may be planted together in a 

 second-sized pot. A sandy soil, mixed with very little peat, 



