182 ON THE CULTIVATION OF SOME OF THE PLANTS 
in the preceding season. When the plants have made shoots about an inch lot 
re-pot them into 4-sized pots, still using the same soil, with the charcoal and potshefs 
in rather larger pieces. After this shift, the pots should be plunged about half thjr 
depth, guarding against over-heating, and also against the ingress of worn. 
Maintain a lively growing temperature, by renewing the linings of the pits wit 
necessary, and keep a moist growing atmosphere. Allow the plants to grow wily 
throughout the summer, and by giving plenty of air, both night and day, si 
abundant room, with liquid manure when necessary, encourage them to make stro 
sturdy growth. The plants, if allowed, will produce some very fine flowers lb 
second season, but as that would retard their growth to some extent, it is advisa 3 
not to allow them to bloom until the third year. 
By the middle of August the plants, if they have been properly managed, vl 
be large and strong ; but as you must endeavour to get them as bushy as possible,!; 
will be necessary to cut each shoot in again, and depress the side branches so asl 
induce them to break from the old wood. These will be the blooming shoots r 
the third season, and therefore to get them strong, so as to ensure their setti| 
bloom buds, they must be exposed to as much light as possible, and at the sail 
time receive every aid which practice can suggest to make the young growth stro [ 
and healthy. Maintain a brisk growing temperature, so as to have a thoroui 
circulation of air at all times. As soon as you perceive the shoots begin to set thii’ 
bloom, which may be known by the points of the shoots ceasing to elongate, at 
becoming full and large, begin gradually to lower the temperature so that throui 
the wihter they may be kept at a temperature of from 50° to 55 ° or 60°. 
In starting them in the spring of the third year it will be necessary to give i 
plants a small shift, and introduce them to stove heat from the middle of Februai' 
to the first week in March, that is, if you want them to bloom in May and Jun 
but for later blooming, they must be in a low temperature until April or Mg 
During the blooming season supply them liberally with liquid manure, but take ca 
that it is neither too strong nor too muddy. A very weak solution of nitrate of so 
impaits a very healthy appearance to the plants if applied occasionally, and 3 
imagine gives colour to the flowers. 
The annexed vignette gives a representation of an Ixora grandifiora in the thi 
season of its growth, and was taken from a plant in the collection of James Coo 
Esq., of Brooldands, Blackheath Park, whose gardener, Mr. Ayres, showed it 
several of the metropolitan exhibitions, where doubtless some of our readers m<‘ 
have observed it. Unfortunately, our drawing only show r s a part of the plant ai 
flowers, as it was quite round, and equally well covered on all sides. It produce 
upwards of sixty heads of bloom, and had between thirty and forty fully expande 
trusses when our sketch was taken. Such a plant we consider well repays ai 
attention which may be devoted to its cultivation, as it is not only a grand object 
itself, but continuing to bloom for several months, fills a place very worthily in ttj 
stove, and charms us for a long time. 
