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Sparaxis.—Graceful bulbous plants from South Africa.

SPARAXIS.—The plant best known under this name has been already described as Dierama pulcherrima at p.

The late summer and autumn flowering kinds are best represented by the Montbretias, Tritonias, Gladiolus, Brodi�as, and Sparaxis.

Ornithogalum, both the white and orange-flowered species, the free-growing species of Ixia, and the varieties of Sparaxis tricolor, are desirable plants that may be easily bloomed by gentle forcing.

Gladioli.—Pot them, and Ixias, Sparaxis, &c.; and to be watered sparingly until they begin to grow.