The bully or balata tree of British Guiana, which furnishes a gum somewhat intermediate between India rubber and gutta-percha, being nearly as elastic as the first without the brit...
The white flowers of this evergreen shrub,which make their appearance in July, are delicately fragrant. The plant is most suitable for a cool greenhouse, but does well in the open,...
The greenhouse shrubs should be grown in peat and loam.They are raised by seeds and by cuttings. Most of the hardy perennials need protection in winter, therefore they are best gro...
This evergreen thrives best in fibrouspeat to which a fair quantity of silver sand has been added. While excessive moisture is injurious, the plant must not be kept too dry; the be...
Great attention must be paid to this important gardeningoperation. It is necessary that the pots used be perfectly clean, and, if new, soaked in water for several hours previously,...
A pretty dwarf perennial, suitable for moistinterstices of rock-work. It should be planted in a slanting position, so that the roots, while absorbing plenty of moisture, will not r...
See "Alyssum."
A handsome species of St. Peter's Wort.The shrubs will grow in any ordinary soil, are hardy, and readily propagated by suckers, which are produced abundantly; or cuttings may be ta...
Very decorative conifers, mostly of conicalshape, and indispensable to the shrubbery. They thrive in any soil, but prefer a moist situation. For sheltered positions, where a small...
A Californian half-hardy perennial plant which bearsa profusion of scarlet tube-shaped flowers from June to October. It grows freely in a sunny position in any dry, light, gravelly...
Plant on a warm border in a rathersandy, well-drained soil. Give protection in severe weather, and supply with water during the growing season. Take up and divide every second or t...
The large fern tree of Australia. This plant attains the height of 30 or more feet, and its fronds or leaves spread horizontally some 20 to 25 feet. It is found in snowy regions, a...
A common tree in the Malayan Islands, where its fruit forms a great part of the food of the natives. It is said to have a most delicious flavor combined with a most offensive odor,...
This stringy bark gum furnishes a strong, durable timber, used for shipbuilding and other purposes. _E. robusta_ contains large cavities in its stem, between the annual concentric...
This is one of the few palms found in Australia. The unexpanded leaves, prepared by being scalded and dried in the shade, are used for making hats, while the still younger and more...
The fruit of this plant is the Granadilla of the tropics. The pulp has an agreeable though rather mawkish taste. The root is said to possess narcotic properties, and is used in the...
A hardy annual bearinggraceful drooping racemes of crimson blossom. The seed should be sown in the open at the end of March, and thinned out or transplanted with a good ball of ear...
The perennial varieties of thesebeautiful plants grow best in moist places, such as the edges of ponds or ditches; but they also do well in pots among Alpine plants. Most of them m...
A pretty hardy perennial, suitable for a frontborder or rock-work, bearing dense spikes of flowers from May to August. It grows well in any ordinary soil, and is propagated by divi...
A light loamsuits this plant, which is moderately hardy. The soil should be moist, but not wet. It does not like being disturbed, but when necessary the crowns may be divided in au...
An elegant hardy annual. Sow the seed early inspring on a gentle hotbed in loam and peat, harden off, and transplant at the end of May to a soil composed of loam and leaf-mould, if...
The ground rattan palm. This is supposed to yield the walking-canes known as rattan, which is doubted. It is a native of southern China, and is also found in Japan, where it is kno...
See "Dielytra."
See "Hyacinthus."
These are among the most useful of our hardy annuals,producing a display of the brightest of colours throughout the entire summer. The tall-growing climbers make a gay background t...
Grows well on light,dry soil, and also in water-meadows.
Handsome herbaceous plants with Strawberry-like foliage.They will grow in any common soil, and may be increased by dividing the roots or by seeds treated like other hardy perennial...
Monkey Puzzle (Araucaria Imbricata)--mix woodashes and burnt refuse with the soil; Thujopsis Delabrata, Thujopsis Borealis (of taller growth), Irish Yews, Cupressus Lawsoniana Erec...
See "Arbutus."
This West Indian shrub is sometimes called seaside balsam or sage. A thick, yellowish, aromatic juice exudes from the extremities of the broken branches, or wherever the stem has b...