Ixia—Spider Lily.
Will you please tell me through your Magazine how to pronounce ixias.
Also, how to treat the spider lily.
A. E. M.
Casstown, Ohio.
The division of the word as here given, ix-i-a, sufficiently indicates its pronunciation.
The spider lilies, or Pancratiums, are plants growing naturally in marshes or low moist grounds and require plenty of water in their growing and blooming stage—afterwards give less water favoring a season of comparative rest, but do not allow to go wholly dry.
Plants About a Fish Pond.
I have a nice fish pond that till recently has been outside of my yard, but finding that the cattle would spoil the banks I am now taking it into my yard enclosure and wish to make it an ornament, which it really is. What kinds of plants are suitable to plant in the water and around it that would make it showy? I have now the Egyptian lotus growing in it.
W. C. L.