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stronger, as well as furnish a greater is usually cultivated in the kitchen garincrease
of offsets than those planted den ; the first two being employed in
later, or not till spring; if, however, salads and for garnishing, and the last
some roots are retained out of ground in pickling.
until February, they will succeed those Soil and Situation.—They flourish in
of the autumnal planting in flowering, almost any soil, but are most productive
Those in the open borders should be in a light fresh loam. In a strong rich
deposited in little patches of about soil, the plants are luxuriant, but afford
three or four roots in each, planting fewer berries, and those of inferior flathem
either with a blunt dibble, or with vour. They like an open situation,
a garden trowel, four inches deep.] Time and Mode of Sowing.—They
When planted in beds by themselves, niay be sown from the beginning of
have the beds four feet wide, with al- March to the middle of May; the earleys,
a foot and a half or two feet wide, lier, however, the better: one sowing
between, plant the roots in rows length- jn the kitchen garden, and that a small
wise, nine inches asunder, about four one, is quite suflicient for a moderate
inches deep, and six distant in each sized family. The seed may be inserted
row, covering them regularly with the j,, a drill, two inches deep along its botearth,
and rake the surface smoothly, torn, in a single row, with a space of
Having planted the roots in either of . two
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these methods, all the culture they re- or they may be dibbled in at a similar
(juire is to be kept clean from weeds ; distance and depth. The minor is likeand
they will all flower in the following I wise often sown in patches. The maspring
ai.d summer. jor should be inserted beneath a vacant
Water Culture. — The Polyanthus, paling, wall, or hedge, to which its
Narcissus, and the large Jonquils, are
bloomed in glasses of water in rooms,
stems may be trained, or
compartment, with sticks
in an open
inserted on
in winter and early in spring; any of each side. The runners at first require
the other species may also be flowered a little attention to enable them to
in the same manner; observing to pro- din^j,^ but they soon are capable of
cure such roots as were lifted at the doing so unassisted. The minor may
season above mentioned. The season either trail along the ground, or be supfor
placing in water is any time in win- ported with short sticks. If water is
ter or early spring, from October till not afforded during dry weather, they
March, observing to fill the glasses „i|i pot shoot so vigorously, or be so
with fresh soft water, so full that the productive. They flower from June
bottom of the bulb may just touch it. umil the close of October. The berries
See Hyacinth. for pickling must be gathered when of
Pot Vulture.—The same plants may f„i| gi^g^ and whilst green and fleshy,
be brought to early bloom in pots ; during August.
plant the bulbs in pots of light rich fg obtain Seed.—For the production
earth during August, and place in a of seed, some plants should be left
warm room; they will bloom about unn-athered from, as the first produced
November. Abercrombie. are not only the finest in general, but
N.\RCISSl)S-FLY. See Mi?«rodo/i. are often the only ones that ripen.
NASTURTIUM. By this name are They should be gathered as they ripen,
commonly known two species of Tro- which they do from the close of AupcEolum.
T. mnjus is a hardy annual g|,st even to the beginning of October,
twiner, and there are several varieties, xhey must on no account be stored
distinguished by their double or crim- I „ntil perfectly dry and hard. The finest
son flowers, t. minus is a hardy an- and soundest seed of the previous year's
nual trailer, and a variety with double production should alone be sown ; if it
flowers, is a green-house evergreen. jg older the plants are seldom vigorous.
Although strictly annual when grown]
NAUtLEA. Five species. Stove
in the open ground in this country, yet
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they are naturallv perennial, as may be „. ,*',
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' house. The Major Nasturtium being NAVELWORT. Cotyledon.
the most productive, as well of flowers NEAPOLITAN VIOLET. Viola ado-
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pallida plena. See Violet.
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