. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 838 IVESIA IVfiSIA. All referred to PotentiUa. IVY. The common or English Ivy is Hedera. Boston l.^Atnpelopsis tricuspidata. German Climbing Senecio and Herniaria glabra. Ground :Nepeta Glechotna. Cymbalaria. Poison , B. Toxicodendron. Some authors think that two species of
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 838 IVESIA IVfiSIA. All referred to PotentiUa. IVY. The common or English Ivy is Hedera. Boston l.^Atnpelopsis tricuspidata. German Climbing Senecio and Herniaria glabra. Ground :Nepeta Glechotna. Cymbalaria. Poison , B. Toxicodendron. Some authors think that two species of Rhus are confused, R. radicans being the common Poison Ivy of the North, and li. Toxico- dendron being a shrub of the South. IXIA (Greek, bird lime; said to refer to the juice). Iriddcece. Ixias are delightful tender bulbs originally from the Cape of Good Hope, with attractive grass-like foliage and spikes of flowers borne in early spring, ex- hibiting an exceptionally wide range of colors. They grow about 1% ft. high on the average, with an un- branched stem, a spike 3-8 in. long, containing 6-12 fls. each lJ^-2 in. or more across. The fls. have a very slender tube usually about K in. long, and 6 segments. The following colors are all well marked in Ixia: white, yellow in at least 3 shades, orange, lilac, rose, pink, crimson, light and dark purple, ruby red, pale blue, and even green. Perhaps the only important colors lack- ing are sky-blue and red in the bright shades of scarlet and vermilion. The flowers may be concolorous (all of one color) or these same shades may be com- bined â with an eye. Most of our cultivated forms seem to ha%-e an eye of brown, purple or almost black, but there have been kinds with a white, blue or green eye. Occasion- ally there is a ring of brown color above the purple. Add to this that the backs of the segments may be more or less suffused â n ith various eolors(usually, however, that of the eye) and the interesting possibili- ties of Ixias in
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