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A handsome, hardy evergreen, with largeshining, Laurel-shaped leaves, and highly-scented, Tulip-shaped white flowers. A noble plant for a spacious frontage, but in most places requires to be grown on...
Handsome evergreen shrubs, useful for covert planting or forgrouping with others. They grow best in a compost of sand, peat, and loam, and may be propagated by cuttings or by layers of ripened wood, l...
The flowers of this hardy perennial areproduced in April and May, and somewhat resemble miniature Lily of the Valley. Seed may be sown at the end of July. The plant will grow in any soil, but delights...
Very beautiful hardy annuals having soft leaves. They may beraised from seed sown in April in any garden soil. They bloom in June or July. Height, 11/2 ft. to 2 ft.
Very ornamental plants, more especially the greenhousevarieties. The hardy perennials succeed in any good garden soil, and are increased by seed sown in the autumn, or by division of the root. The gre...
A fine climbing plant bearing very sweetwhite flowers in June. It is rather tender, and more suitable for the conservatory than the open air. It does not make a good pot-plant, but finds a suitable ho...
One of the best fertilisers of the soil is made bysaturating charred wood with urine. This may be drilled in with seeds in a dry state. For old gardens liquid manure is preferable to stable manure, an...