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AJUGA. Bugle. Elevpn species. |
fixed kinds, one was called potash or
Hardy. Division or seed. Sandy ped.t \vegelable, because procured from the
or ]o;im
ashes of'vegetables gener:illy; the other,
AKEK-TREE. Bli/^hia snpida. \soda or mineral, on account of its hav-
ALANGIUM. Two species. Stove ing been principally obtained from the
evergreen trees Cuttings. Sandy incineration ofmarine plants.'' Encyc.
loam.
Am. The sulphate of ammonia has
ALBUCA. Nineteen species. Green- been used with success as a stimulant to
house bulbs. Oftsets. Sandy loam vegetable growth—and is now prepared
and peat.
and sold by chemists for that purpose.
ALBURNUM. The soft white sub- ALLAMANDA cathartica. Stove
stance which in trees is found between evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Rich
the liber or inner bark and the wood, loamy soil.
and in progress of time acquiring solid- ALLANTODIA. Five species.
ity, becomes itself the wood. A new Green-house herbaceous plants. Di-
layer of wood, or rather of alburnum is vision. Loamy peat.
added annually to the tree in every ALLEYS are of two kinds. 1. The
part, just under the bark.
narrow walks which divide the com-
ALCHEMILLA. Ladies' Mantle. partments of the kitchen garden ; and
Eleven species. Chiefly hardy. Seeds 2. Narrow walks in shrubberies and
or division. Common soil.
pleasure-grounds, closely bounded and
ALCOVE, is a seat in a recess, overshadowed by the shrubs and trees.
formed of stone, brick, or other dead ALLIONIA. Three species. Hardy
material, and so constructed as to shel- annuals. Seeds. Sandy peat or loam.
ter the party seated from the north and ALLIUM. Garlic or onion tribe.
other colder quarters, whilst it is open 126 species. Hardy bulbous plants.
in front to the south.
Offsets or seed. Common soil.
ALDER. Alnus.
ALLSEED. Poly carpon.
ALETRIS. Two species. Hardy ALLSPICE. Caiycanthus.
herbaceous plants. Oiisets. Peat or ALLSPICE-TREE. Pimenta.
leafsoil.
ALMOND. Amygdalm.
ALEURITES. Two species. Stove ALNUS. Alder. Nineteen species.
evergreen trees. Cuttings. Loamy Hardy deciduous trees. Layers or
soil.
ALEXANDRIAN LAUREL. Russeeds.
Moist soil.
ALOE. Forty-seven species. Green-
CVS Racemosus.
ALHAGL Manna. Two species.
Green-house plants. Young cuttings or
house evergreen shrubs. Suckers.
Sandy loam and peat.
ALOMIA Ageratoides. Half-hardy
seed. Sandy loam and peat.
"ALKALI, in cliemistry ; from the
Arabian kali, the name of a plant from
dwarf evergreen plant. Cuttings.
Sandy loam.
ALONSO.-^. Five species. Green-
the ashes of which one species of alkali house evergreen shrubs, except A. cau-
can be extracted. The true alkalies lialata, which is half-hardy. Cuttings
have been arranged by a modern chemist
in three classes:—1, those which
or seeds. Rich mould.
ALOYSIA citriodora. Green-house
consist of a metallic basis, combined deciduous shrub. Cuttings or seeds.
with oxygen ; these are three in number—
potash, soda and lithia; 2, that
which contains no oxygen, viz., ammo-
Rich mould.
ALPINIA. Twenty-five
Stove herbaceous perennials.
species.
Division.
nia ; 3, those containing oxygen, hydrogen
and carbon ; in this class are placed
Rich sandy soil.
ALSINE. Chickweed. Six speciee.
Hardy annuals. Seeds. Common soil.
ALSODEIA. Two species. Stove
evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam
and peat.
ALSTONIA. Two species. Stove
evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Rich light
aconita, atropia, hrucia, cicutn, datura,
delphia, hyoscyamia, morphia, strychnia.
And it is supposed that the vegetable
alkalies may be found to be as numerous
as the vegetable acids. The
original distribution of alkaline sub-
Btnnccs was into volatile and fixed, the
volatile alkali being known under the
j
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soil.
ALSTRCEMERIA. Twenty-five spe-
name of ammonia ; while, of the twolcies. The seeds should be sown ira-