This palm grows all over South America. It is known as the great macaw-tree. A sweetish-tasted oil, called Mucaja oil, is extracted from the fruit and is used for making toilet soa...
Sow early in March in well-drained pots of rich, light,free mould; cover the seed with 1/2 in. of soil, and keep it constantly moist at a temperature of 65 degrees. When strong eno...
Very pretty hardy trailing perennials, covered from Mayto July with golden Pea-shaped flowers. They will grow in any light, sandy soil, and may be increased by cuttings, which root...
These are favourite plants for training over arbours ortrellis-work, and for growing against walls. The hardy kinds will flourish in ordinary soil. The stove and greenhouse sorts s...
Stove evergreen shrubs, flourishing best in a mixture ofequal parts of loam, peat, and sand. They are propagated by cuttings of the young wood, plunged in heat. July is their flowe...
Strong and coarse-growing; cattleare fond of it.
These elegant hardy evergreen shrubs succeed best inlight, sandy loam, and like a dry situation. They may be increased by cuttings of the young shoots with a little old wood attach...
See "Trollius."
A good twining plant for the greenhouse, producingfragrant cream-coloured flowers in July. It will grow in any good loamy soil, and may be increased by cuttings. Height, 3 ft.
A greenhouse deciduous shrub which flowers inAugust. The soil in which it is placed should be a light, rich loam. It can be most freely multiplied by layers, and cuttings will stri...
See "Arabis."
For landscape gardening the old gold-striped (BaccataAurea Variegata) is most effective. The Japanese variety, T. Adpressa, is a pleasing evergreen having dark green leaves and lar...
This is the argan tree of Morocco. It is remarkable for its low-spreading mode of growth. Trees have been measured only 16 feet in height, while the circumference of the branches w...
This cinchonaceous plant is a native of the Southern States and has a reputation as an antiperiodic. It is stated that incomplete examinations have detected _cinchonine_ in the bar...
A cinchonaceous shrub. The leaves of this plant were formerly used in some of the religious ceremonies of the New Zealanders.
A Brazilian plant called Mercurio vegetal; also known as Manaca. The roots, and to some extent the leaves, are used in medicine; the inner bark and all the herbaceous parts are nau...
This is the tea plant of South America, where it occupies the same important position in the domestic economy of the country as the Chinese tea does in this. The _mate_ is prepared...
This is a West Indian palm; the leaves are used for various purposes, such as making mats, huts, etc.
The foliage of these half-hardy annual plants areextremely beautiful, some being carmine, others green and crimson, some yellow, red, and green. They are very suitable either for b...
See "Glaucium."
A rare, native, evergreen creeping perennial.From July to September it bears pale pink flowers; it makes a pretty pot-plant, and also does well in the open when planted in a shady...
Soak the seed in tepid water for twenty-four hours,then put them singly 1 in. deep in 2-in. pots filled with equal parts of loam, leaf-mould, and sand. Cover the pots with glass an...
The leaves of this plant spread themselveslaterally just over the soil, forming a rosette, in the centre of which spring up large violet-like flowers. It is a continuous bloomer. A...
A hardy annual of a rather pretty nature, suitable forflower-beds or borders. Autumn is the best time for sowing the seed, but it may also be sown early in the spring. It blooms in...
Arnotta plant. This plant is a native of South America, but has been introduced and cultivated both in the West and East Indies. It bears bunches of pink-colored flowers, which are...
This is a favorite tree for growing in masses, for the purpose of sheltering cocoanut plantations, and inducing a proper degree of moisture in their neighborhood.
The Moriche, or Ita palm, very abundant on the banks of the Amazon, Rio Negro, and Orinoco Rivers. In the delta of the latter it occupies swampy tracts of ground, which are at time...
A New Zealand tree called Towhia by the natives of that country. Its bark is used for tanning purposes, and as a red and brown dye, which give fast colors upon cotton fabrics.
This hardy, deciduous climbergrows best in peat and sandy loam with the addition of a little dung. It may be raised from cuttings placed in sand under glass. Height, 30 ft.
Hardy everlasting flowers, which arecovered with a woolly substance. They may be grown in any light, rich soil. The shrubby and herbaceous kinds may be increased by cuttings or div...