Very showy flowers, well worth cultivating, and easily grownin a rich, light soil. The annuals and biennials may be sown in the open early in spring. The herbaceous kinds are incre...
For room and window plants soot-water has this advantageover coarse animal manures, that while the latter are unhealthy and apt to taint the air, the former is purifying and has no...
This leguminous plant has remarkable pods, which often measure 6 or 8 feet in length. The seeds are about 2 inches across, and half an inch thick, and have a hard, woody, and beaut...
A Chinese plant of the orange family. The fruit is succulent, and the white flowers are very fragrant. They are used in perfumery.
The citron, found wild in the forests of northern India. The Jews cultivated the citron at the time they were under subjection to the Romans, and used the fruit in the Feast of the...
An East Indian tree which in part yields the black ebony wood of commerce, much used in fancy cabinetwork and turnery, door knobs, pianoforte keys, etc.
This is a hardy perennial which flowers inSeptember. The same treatment that is given to Asters is suitable for this plant. Height, 3 ft.
A very pretty bog plant which blooms from June toAugust. Plant in rich, light soil, and give plenty of water. It is propagated by division. Height, 9 in.
This makes a good window or cool greenhouseplant. Pot the tuber in good loam and leaf-soil, and keep the mould only just damp until the foliage, which follows the flowers, appears....
Requires a rich, sandysoil, and to be protected in a frame from wet and frost in the winter. Increase by division or by suckers from the root. The flower spikes grow 18 to 27 in. l...
A Brazilian plant, furnishing an astringent bark used for tanning, and also containing a red coloring matter employed in dyeing. The berries are used in medicine, and a decoction o...
A climbing plant, so tenacious of life that when the stem is cut across or broken, a rootlet is speedily sent down from above, which continues to grow until it reaches the ground....
This tree produces the tropical fruit called mangosteen, a beautiful fruit, having a thick, succulent rind, which contains an astringent juice, and exudes a gum similar to gamboge....
A plant belonging to the _Apocynaceae_, a native of the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, where its milky juice, collected by making incisions in its soft, thick, rugged bark, or by c...
This plant is extolled for its charcoal in the manufacture of powder. The flowers, leaves, roots, and especially the fruit, are considered antispasmodic, and are administered in In...
Very pretty and hardy, bearing fine spikes of deep,rich blue flowers in compact clusters on a stem 6 to 9 in. high. Sweet-scented, and blooms about May. The Alba, or white, variety...
A frame creeping perennial which flowers in June. Itrequires a light soil. Cuttings of the young wood may be struck under glass. Height, 1 ft.
Though old-fashioned flowers, these still rank among our mostbeautiful annual and herbaceous border plants. They may be grown in any soil, but a rich loam suits them best. The seed...
This hardy evergreen shrub is a species of Rue.It enjoys a good, rich soil, in which it flowers freely in August. Cuttings may be struck under a hand-glass. Height, 3 ft.
This Mexican plant is remarkable for the large bulbiform swelling at the base of the stem. It is a plant of much elegance and beauty, resembling a drooping fountain.
The wood apple or elephant apple tree of India, belonging to the family _Aurantiaceae_. It forms a large tree in Ceylon, and yields a hard, heavy wood, of great strength. It yields...
A tree that grows about 40 feet high, along the seashores in the West Indies and Central America, and known as the cork wood. The wood is soft, spongy, and exceedingly light, and i...
This hardy, ornamental shrubwill grow in any soil. It should be planted early in spring on a south or south-west wall, and may be increased by seeds, by budding, or by grafting. Th...
A night-blooming cereus, and one of the most beautiful. The flowers when fully expanded are over a foot in diameter, having numerous radiating red and bright orange sepals and deli...
The South American rubber plant, from which a great portion of the caoutchouc of commerce is obtained. There are several species of siphonia which, equally with the above, furnish...
See "Oenothera."
This tender annual is well known forits clover-like heads of everlasting flowers. It will grow in any rich soil, but to produce really fine plants, much attention must be given to...
See "Blackberries."Rudbeckia (Cone Flower.)--Hardy annuals yielding yellow flowers in July. They are readily grown from seed sown early in spring, and will grow in any garden soil,...
Herbaceous plants, which thrive well in any light, richsoil, and are readily increased by dividing the roots. They flower in June. Height, 2 ft. Y
A meliaceous plant, native of tropical America, where it grows to a height of 60 to 80 feet. The bark of this tree possesses febrifugal properties and is also used for tanning. By...