==Ixia and Sparaxis==

These attractive Cape bulbs are hardy in favoured districts, and may be left out for years in a sheltered border.  In places where none but the hardiest plants pass through the winter safely, they must be grown in the greenhouse or the frame, and any good sandy soil will suit them, whether peat or loam.  They should be potted early in the autumn, and have plenty of air at all times when the weather is favourable, especially when they are growing freely in spring.  If carefully managed, they may remain two seasons in the same pots.  Use the 48-size, and plant four or five bulbs in each.  A dry, deep, sandy border under a wall in any of the warmer western and southern districts might be furnished with such plants as Ixias, Sparaxis, Alstroemerias, Oxalis, Tritonias, Babianas, and the choicest of the smaller kinds of Iris.  It would constitute a garden of the most interesting exotics.

==Jonquil==

For its delicious fragrance and exquisite beauty the Jonquil has long been considered one of the most valuable of the Narciss family for cultivation in pots, and it is also a first-rate border and woodland flower.  When forced, the treatment should agree as nearly as possible with that prescribed for the Narcissus.  Four or five bulbs may be planted in one pot.

==Lachenalia==

An elegant plant which is not quite hardy enough to be trusted in the open ground; but it is the easiest matter possible to grow it well in the greenhouse.  The bulbs should be potted as soon as they begin to grow in the autumn, and several bulbs may be put into each pot.  There can be no better soil than turfy loam, without manure or sand.  It is of the utmost importance that the plants should have abundance of water, when they will produce leaves two inches across, and spikes of flowers fully double the size of those commonly met with.  An admirable use for these bulbs is to insert them all over the outside of hanging-baskets, which they will cover with the most graceful display of aerial vegetation imaginable, the flower-spikes turning upwards, and the leaves hanging down.

==Leucojum==

The Spring Snowflake (=L. vernum=) blooms as early as February or March, and the Summer Snowflake (=L. aestivum=) comes into flower in May and June.  They closely resemble the Snowdrop, but are much larger than that well-known spring favourite.  The bulbs are perfectly hardy, and will grow in any garden soil.  Plant in clumps three inches deep, any time from the end of September until the middle of November.

==Lilies==