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ISMENE AMANCAES. 
The following treatment is recommended in Bot. Cult. 108, for the genus 
Pancratium, to which the above is nearly allied. 
Pancratium.—^' Several of the species are very handsome and fragrant, and are 
met with in most collections of stove plants. A mixture of light turfy loam, with 
nearly one third fine sand^ and a little turfy peat to keep it open, is the best soil to 
grow them in. If peat cannot be easily procured, half rotten leaves will answer 
the same purpose. To grow them very fast, it is best to place them in a hot-bed 
frame or pit in summer, were they will grow to double the size they would in the 
house. When they are growing freely they require a good supply of water, and as 
the pots are filled with roots to be shifted into larger ones ; by that means they will 
flower two or three times in the season, but care must be taken not to give them 
too much water, when they are not in a growing state. They are to be increased 
by suckers, or from seeds, which often ripen freely. If any plant happen to lose 
its heart, if it be kept dry it will throw out abundance of suckers, which is the 
readiest way of propagating it." 
