plants for the greenhouse. They require the same course of

cultivation as the Ixia. H. stellata, II. latifolta, and H. elata are the best species.

HTPOXIS ELATA.

Imantophyllum. — This is a fine genus of Araaryllids, requiring warm greenhouse culture. I. miniatum is the best, but 1. Gardeni is worth growing for its winter flowers. A. strong loamy compost will suit these plants, and they must be kept gro-wing the whole year round. To dry them off would be certain death to them.

Ixia akd Sparaxis. — The Continental growers have been outstripped by the English iu the cultivation of tl>ese most elegant flowers. The English growers are not content to grow them only ; they hybridise them with much care, and have raised hundreds of new varieties. In the Channel Islands they are treated as hardy flowers, but with us they require frame or greenhduse culture.

To grow the Ixia in pots put three to seven bulbs in a