This elegant twining plant is best grown inpots, so that it can more conveniently be taken indoors in the winter. The soil should be light and rich. Cuttings can be taken either in...
This hardy evergreen shrubshould occupy a dry and sheltered position. Its fragrant purple flowers are produced in February. Cuttings of the ripened wood, if planted in spring, will...
Same treatment as "Dianthus."
This well-known and much-admiredevergreen shrub produces masses of white flowers through the winter months, at which season it is especially ornamental. It is generally propagated...
These charming everlasting annuals retain, in a driedstate, their form and colour for several years. They are of the easiest culture, merely requiring to be sown in spring in light...
A Mexican plant, belonging to the orange family, with a fruit about the size of an ordinary orange, which has an agreeable taste, but is not considered to be wholesome. The seeds a...
Known in the West Indies as the seaside grape, from the peculiarity of the perianth, which becomes pulpy and of a violet color and surrounds the ripe fruit. The pulpy perianth has...
The fruits of this West Indian tree are known in commerce as allspice; the berries have a peculiarly grateful odor and flavor, resembling a combination of cloves, nutmeg, and cinna...
A plant of the buckthorn family, known in Jamaica as Chaw-Stick, on account of its thin branches being chewed as an agreeable stomachic. Tooth brushes are made by cutting pieces of...
The incense tree of Guiana, a tall-growing tree, furnishing wood of great durability. It is called cedar wood on account of its fragrant odor. The balsam from the trunk is highly o...
The vegetable ivory plant, a native of the northern parts of South America. The fruit consists of a collection of six or seven drupes; each contains from six to nine seeds, the veg...
This plant furnishes fiber fit for the manufacture of ropes. Its leaves contain a large quantity of mucilage.
A perfectly hardy climbing convolvulus, and a beautifulplant for covering arbours, etc., growing 20 ft. to 30 ft. in one season. It thrives in any loamy soil or situation; flowers...
Beautiful evergreen shrubs. I. Australis has elegant,fern-like foliage and racemes of pink or purple Pea-shaped flowers in April. I. Decora Alba bears its white flowers in July. Th...
Plant these Orchids firmly in well-drained pots,using equal parts of live sphagnum and fibrous peat. Give one good watering as soon as the potting is finished, and stand them in a...
See "Primulas," and "Streptocarpus."
This singular and delightfully fragrant annualdoes best in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, or sandy loam and leaf-mould. Sow the seed in pots in the spring, place in a greenhous...
A greenhouse evergreen climbing plant, whichneeds a peat and loam soil and plenty of room for its roots. It flowers in April, and is increased by cuttings planted in sand under gla...
Sow in prepared places, during spring, in sluggishbrooks and moist situations; or it may be grown on a shady border if kept moist by frequent waterings. It may also be grown in a f...
A tropical tree, belonging to the mallow family. The inner bark of the young branches yields a tough fiber, fit for cordage, and used in Demerara for making coffee bags, and the fi...
This ornamental hardy herbaceous plant thrivesbest in a mixture of peat and loam. It is advisable to give protection to the roots in winter. It may be increased by seeds or by divi...
A dwarf evergreen shrub with flowersresembling a white St. John's Wort. It grows best in a compost of loam and peat, and is propagated by cuttings planted in sand, and subjected to...
Very graceful and showy plants. The flowers, which arelike small Gladioli, are produced on long branched spikes and are excellent for cutting. Plant 3 in. deep and 2 in. apart in s...
A very pretty hardy perennial. It will thrive inany soil, blooms from May to August, and can be readily increased by seed or division. Height, 1-1/2 ft.
A pretty evergreen stove shrub, which is oftentrained to a single stem so as to form a standard. It succeeds in sandy loam and peat. It may be sunk in the flower-border during the...
These greenhouse herbaceous plants bloom in May. A rich,light soil suits them. Height, 6 in.
An ornamental hardy perennial. It will succeed in anygarden soil, and merely requires the same treatment as ordinary perennials. It is readily increased by dividing the roots, and...
This is a valuable dwarf species of the banana from southern China. It bears a large truss of fine fruit, and is cultivated to some extent in Florida, where it endures more cold th...
This plant is called the Traveler's tree, probably on account of the water which is stored up in the large cup-like sheaths of the leaf-stalks, and which is sought for by travelers...
An Indian plant which is supposed to yield the essential oil called Ylang-Ylang, or Alan-gilan. This oil is obtained by distillation from the flowers, and is highly esteemed by per...