Plate 225. 



IXORA BEGINA. 



This is a very attractive garden variety and undoubtedly one of the best Ixoras in 

 cultivation, either as a decorative plant or for exhibition purposes. It was exhibited at one 

 of the Regent's Park shows during the present year, and was awarded a first-class certificate 

 as a most desirable free-blooming decorative plant. It most nearly approaches /. Williamsii 

 in habit and flower, but is nevertheless abundantly distinct. It is dwarf and compact in 

 habit, the trusses of bloom being large and very dense ; indeed this last is a special feature, 

 for a truss of this variety has nearly twice as many flowers in it as a truss of any other kind 

 of the same diameter, and they more nearly resemble the trusses of I. coccinea in shape. 

 The colour of the flowers is yellow inclining to bright orange-scarlet, the slender flower-tubes 

 being of a crimson-violet tint as shown in our drawing. It was raised by Mr. W. Bull, 

 F.L.S., and it is but fair to state that our drawing represents an average-sized cluster of 

 flowers, some of those borne by the plant at the time it was exhibited being fully half 

 as large again as the one represented in our plate. Since our drawing was made we have 

 seen little plants in 60-sized pots, mere cuttings, in fact, blooming most profusely. 



Plate 226. 

 DENDROBITTM EALCONEEI. 



Of all the Dendrobes this is one of the most graceful in habit, and whenever it can bo 

 induced to flower it will bear comparison with any other species for delicate beauty, and 

 richness of colouring. It grows well in a light airy Cattleya-house or in an ordinaiy plant - 

 stove ; and when its growth is nearly completed the plant should be suspended beneath the 

 rafters of a light sunny vinery, where it will receive plenty of air and sunlight, together with 

 a copious supply of water at the root. As a rule this species succeeds best on a flat teak- 

 wood raft, a little fresh living sphagnum moss being added to retain moisture around the 

 roots. It also succeeds well in a small hanging basket in a compost of fibrous peat 

 crocks and living sphagnum. Sir W. Marriott, of Down House, Blandford, has been 

 very successful in the culture of this plant, and our drawing was taken from specimens 

 kindly forwarded by that gentleman from a plant which bore about a hundred flowers all 

 open at the same time. Grown as above recommended, the growth becomes thoroughly 

 ripened and flowers follow as the natural result. Mr. Ward, gardener to P. GK Wilkins, 

 Esq., of Ley ton, has also exhibited a splendid specimen of this species during the present 

 year. 



