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Rh plants for the greenhouse. They require the same course of cultivation as the Ixia. H. stellata, H. latifolia, and H. elata are the best species.

HYPOXIS ELATA.

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

.—The Continental growers have been outstripped by the English in the cultivation of these 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 greenhouse culture.

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