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A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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KNI 335 LAB<br />

I<br />

this should be<br />

width, likewise<br />

a walk five feet<br />

extendin round the<br />

KYDIA. Two species.<br />

green shrubs Cuttings.<br />

Stove ever-<br />

Sandy loam<br />

area.<br />

and peat<br />

LABEL. That which combines du-<br />

Fig. 95.<br />

rability with facility <strong>of</strong> reference and<br />

cheapness, is a small piece <strong>of</strong> deal,<br />

planed smooth, painted white, and<br />

written upon with a lead pencil.<br />

Respecting the inclosure <strong>of</strong> the kitchen<br />

garden, see Hedges and Walls.<br />

KLEINHOVIA Iwspita. Stove ever- When ;<br />

green tree. Cuttings. Peat and loam.<br />

KNIFE. Of this the gardener requires<br />

several kinds. I. Garden Knife,<br />

with a curved blade, for common rough<br />

purposes. 2. Pruning Knife, with a<br />

straight blade, and fine edge. 3. Graft<br />

required for a seed-bed, a small<br />

stake is to be driven into the ground,<br />

and from it the label to be suspended.<br />

LABICHEA. Two species. Greenhouse<br />

shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy loam<br />

and peat.<br />

i<br />

I<br />

'<br />

LABLAVIA. Six species, besides<br />

ing knife, also straight-bladed, but with varieties. Stove and green-house twina<br />

thinner and narrower blade. 4. Bud- ers. Four annuals, the rest deciduous.<br />

ding Knife, is like the grafting knife,' Annuals sow in pots in stove, seedlings<br />

but should have a double-edged sharp plant out at end <strong>of</strong> May. Deciduous by<br />

point, like an oyster- knife, and the cuttings. Common soil.<br />

handle <strong>of</strong> ivory, is wedge-shaped, for LABURNUM. Cytisus Laburnum.<br />

raising the bark from the wood. There Varieties. — Common Broad-leafed<br />

is a variety <strong>of</strong> superior excellence, call- Laburnum ; Narrow-leafed long-spiked<br />

ed Curtis's Budding Knife. 5. Aspara Laburnum ; Short-spiked Laburnum ;<br />

gus Knife, has cither a strong straight Variegated-leafed Laburnum, and Midblade,<br />

with a sharp chisel-shaped point, die-sized Laburnum (C. L. intermeor<br />

a slightly curved blade, with a saw- j dium). The first two <strong>of</strong> which varieties<br />

' edge on the inner side <strong>of</strong> the curve. are tolerably permanent from seed, but<br />

KNIGHTIA excejsa. Green - house the other two must be continued by<br />

evergreen tree. Cuttings. Loam, peat, cuttings.<br />

and sand. Propagation.— By Seed.—The seed<br />

KNOXIA. Four species. Stove ever- grows freely in the open ground, and<br />

!<br />

green shrubs, except JiT. teiv's, which is should be sown in March, in four-feet<br />

annual. The former are increased by beds, drilling it in half an inch deep;<br />

cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.<br />

they will come up in six or seven weeks.<br />

KOLREUTERIA paniculata. Hardy Keep them weeded during summer;<br />

deciduous tree. Layers and root-cut- and in spring following the seedlings in<br />

tings. Sheltered common soil.<br />

general, if they stand very close, may<br />

KONIGA maritima, var. variegata. be transplanted into the nursery in rows.<br />

Green-house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. two feet distance, allowing them more<br />

Common soil.<br />

room as they advance in growth; and<br />

KRAMERLV pauciflora. Stove ever- here they may remain two, three, or<br />

green shrub. Cuttings. Sandy loam four years, till large enough for the<br />

and peat.<br />

KRIGIA. Two species.<br />

nuals. Seed. Sandy loam<br />

Hardy an-<br />

shrubbery.<br />

By Cuttings.— October or November<br />

is the best time for planting them.<br />

young shoots eight, ten, or<br />

KUHNIA. Four species. Two hardy, I<br />

and two green-house herbaceous.<br />

sion. Sandy loam and peat.<br />

Choose<br />

Divi- twelve inches long plant them in rows,<br />

| ;<br />

I a foot apart, and five or six inches in

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