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or oflener in the course of the autumn,
so as to require a twenty-four sized pot
about March, make good green-house
plants for the same season. Planted
out at the same time as other naifhardies,
in a shaded situation, it also
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green tree. Cuttings. Sandy loam and
peat. Little water.
LOPHOSPERMUM. Three species.
Half-hardy evergreen climbers. Cuttings.
Rich light loam.
LOPIMIA malacophylla. Stove ever-
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makes a good bed for the flower-garden, green shrub. Young cuttings. Rich
putting a stirt", branchy pea-stake to light soil.
each plant for it to run upon. But it LOQ U AT. Eriohotrya japonica.
best unfolds its beauty upon a north The following are the best directions
wall, planted out in a rich, light soil,
with four or more pieces of line to
ve have for its cultivation:
" Light sandy loam, which is na-
each plant for the shoots to climb." turally rich, suits the loquat well.
Card. Chron.
Young plants may be purchased of the
LOAVINCt. See Heading.
London nurserymen ; but they should
LOBELIA. Eighty-four species, be rejected if they have not been graft-
Chiefly hardy and green-house herba- ed on the common mespilus gcrmanica,
ceous plants. Some, however, are an- or some other nearly allied genius.'*
nual, and others require the heat of a
may be propagated by seeds
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' stove. Herbaceous are propagated by or layers ; but if so raised, they must be
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division; shrubby by cuttings; annuals afterwards grafted. They may be plantby
seed, Sandy loam and peat suit
them all.
LOBSTER-SHELLS See Animal
ed six or eight feet apart in the house ;
but when they become too crowded
every alternate plant should be re-
Matters.
LOCUST-TREE. Hymenma.
LODDIGESIA oxalidifolia. Greenmoved
on small hillocks of earth corresponding
with the size of the plants,
which, as they advance in growth, may,
house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy trom time to time, have fresh earth
loam and peat.
LOMATIA. Five species. Green-
added to their roots until the border is
filled level. Care must be taken, whilst
house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sand the plants are young, to make them
and peat.
LONCHITES. Two species. Stove
produce the requisite quantity of
branches close to the graft, by shorten-
ferns. Division. Turfy loam and peat. ing the shoots, or by pinching off the
LONCHOCARPUS. Nine species. tips.
Stove evergreen trees. Young cuttings. " The loquat is half-hardy ; and it
Loam and peat.
will therefore be necessary to keep a
LONGCHAMPSIA capiUifoUa. little fire in the house in winter, to p're-
Hardy annual. Seed Common soil. vent the frost from injuring the plants.
LONDON-PRIDE Saxifraga um- The trees bloom naturally at that sea-
brosa.
son ; but in this respect are almost at
LONICERA. Honeysuckle Eigh- the command of the gardener. They
teen species. Hardy deciduous shrubs may be forced into bloom in autumn ;
or, by keeping the house very cool in
winter, their blooming may be retarded
until spring.
" The temperature, during the grow-
ing seasons, may correspond with that
and twiners. Cuttings in autumn. Common
soil.
LOOKING-GLASS TREE. Heritiera.
LOOSESTRIFE. Lysimachia.
LOPEZIA. Six species. Hardy annuals
and green-house biennials. All
require to be raised in a hot-bed ; the
annuals to be removed to a south
border, and the others to the greenhouse.
LOPHANTHUS. Five species.
Hardy herbaceous perennials. Division
and cuttings. Common soil.
LOPHIOLA aurea. Hardy herbaceous.
Division. Damp peat soil.
LOPHIRA africana. Stove ever-
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which is given to the peach when
forced.
" When the fruit is gathered, more air
should be admitted into the house. In
autumn the sashes might be entirely removed,
for a short time, so long as there
is no danger of frost.
" Though a separate house is highly
desirable to cultivate the loquat in, it
by no means follows that it will not
grow and fruit elsewhere. If it can be
accommodated with ^the back-wall of a