This beautiful palm is called the Silver Thatch palm of Jamaica, and is said to yield the leaves so extensively used in the manufacture of hats, baskets, and other articles. It is...
Ornamental evergreen shrubs. A mixture of peat and loam,with a sheltered position, is their delight. Cuttings will strike in sand if covered with glass. They produce their flowers...
This plant furnishes zedoary tubers, much used in India as aromatic tonics.
A native of Malabar, where a kind of sago is prepared from the seeds, which are dried and powdered; medicinal properties are also attributed to the seeds.
A South American tree the inner bark of which furnishes a strong useful fiber, employed in the manufacture of ropes and various kinds of cordage. The petals of the flowers are cove...
The mastic tree, a native of southern Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. Mastic is the resin of the tree and is obtained by making transverse incisions in the bark, from wh...
The large, brilliant,orange-red flowers of this plant are very effective in the border, and the bloom is continuous during the greater part of the summer. The seed is rather slow t...
These hardy perennials are bestgrown in sandy loam and peat, and may be increased by cuttings placed under glass in a sheltered situation. Bloom in June or July. Height, 1 ft.
Among the best of our flowering shrubs, producing awealth of sweetly-scented flowers. For cultivation, see "Syringa."
native of western Asia, but now grows abundantly in Italy, Spain, and the south of France. Among the ancients the myrtle was held sacred to Venus and was a plant of considerable im...
The Quillai or Cully of the Chilians. Its bark is called soap-bark, and is rough and dark-colored externally, but internally consists of numerous regular whitish or yellowish layer...
These hardy annuals grow freely in any rich, damp soil;a shady position is indispensable. Height, 1/8 ft.
A hardy perennial which bears slender racemes ofwhite flowers in April. It makes a pretty rock plant, delights in a peat soil, and is increased by division of the root. Height, 6 i...
This half-hardy Hemp is grown forits ornamental foliage, and is treated as above described. Height, 6 ft.
Very pretty and free-blooming hardy annuals.Sow the seed in the open in autumn for an early display of flowers, or in March for a later one. Thin out to 2 ft. apart. Bloom in July....
Of wild, graceful, luxuriant and slendergrowth. Fine for covering walls and fences, festooning arches, etc. Plant at the beginning of October in an eastern aspect or at the base of...
The wood of this plant furnishes Surinam quassia. It is destitute of smell, but has an intensely bitter taste, and is used as a tonic. The root has also reputed medicinal value, as...
This shrub likes an open loamysoil; flowers in July, and is propagated by layers. Height, 6 ft.
See "Anagallis."
See "Helianthus."
The South American trumpet tree, so called because its hollow branches are used for musical instruments. The Waupe Indians form a kind of drum by removing the pith or center of the...
Cape Jasmines, so called from a supposition that they were natives of the Cape of Good Hope. The genus belongs to the cinchona family. _G. lucida_ furnishes a fragrant resin somewh...
By planting a few of the more distinct speciesadapted for such positions, bogs or marshes may be made interesting. The following plants are suitable:--Arundo Donax, Bambusa Fortune...
Ornamental hardy annuals. Sow in the open border inMarch in any good, well-drained soil. They flower in June. Height, 1-1/2 ft.
An ornamental tree; useful in theshrubbery in its earlier stages, as it will grow in any soil. It may be increased by seed, budding, or grafting; flowers in April. Height, 35 ft.
See "Carnations."
Plant in October in peat, or in a compost of sandy,turfy loam, with a good proportion of decayed leaves and charred refuse. The best position for them is a sheltered one where they...
This is very common as a hedge or fence plant in the West Indies. The leaves, when beaten with a blunt mallet and macerated in water, produce fibers from which beautiful fabrics ar...
This is one of the species that yield the rhatany roots of commerce. In Peru an extract is made from this species, which is a mild, easily assimilated, astringent medicine. It acts...
A native of the East Indies, where the roots are used in medicine as a febrifuge and alexipharmic.