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WALDSTEINIA geoides. Hardy
herbaceous perennial. Division or
seeds. Common soil.
WALKERA. Two species. Stove
evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Sandy
loam and peat.
will bloom in the spring, and the best
may be then selected. Watering in
very dry weather, lengthens the duration
of their bloom. Saltpetre one
ounce to the gallon, given once in ten
days, heightens their colour and vigour.
WALKS. See Gravel. It may be Cuttinsrs.—The double varieties are
observed here, that of whatever material thus propagated. When the old plants
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a walk is composed, that it is essential
to have it well under-drained, and for
this purpose an understratum offlints or
Card. Chron.
WALL CRESS. Ardbis.
WALL-FLOWER or STOCK-GIL-
LIFLOWER. Cheiranthus.
C. arboreits. Shrubby W. F. Yellow.
June.
C. cheiri. Common W. F. Yellow,
crimson, brown. June.
C.firmus. Permanent W, F. Yellow.
July.
C. Unifolius. Flax-leaved W. F. Purple.
July.
C. scopariiis White, yellow, and
purple. June.
C. semperflorens.
F. White. July.
done blooming, cut off their heads ;
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them freely, and they will pro-
brick-bats, twelve inches deep, is not
shoots along with their entire stem;
these when from four to six inches long,
too much. Walks so founded, are never must be cut off close to the stem, and
vet or soft. Coal ashes, or which is be planted in a light rich shady border,
still better, fresh tan, makes a pleasant under a hand-glass; watering occasionwinter
walk, particularly on tenacious
soils, as it never adheres to the shoes
ally until rooted.
Soil.—A light rich loam, mixed with
eitlier during rain or after frost; half! a little lime rubbish, suits it best. See
an inch I think is sufficient. It likewise
makes a soft and pleasant summer walk
Stock
WALLICHIA. Two species. Stove
and from its loose nature, is readily palms. Seeds Strong rich soil and a
cleared from weeds. If not wanted strong heat.
during summer, it may readily be swept WALLS are usually built in panels,
clean otT after a few dry days. It is in- from fifteen to thirty feet in length, one
valuable for covering walks or footpaths brick thick, with pillars for the sake of
in the kitchen garden, when there is adding to their strength, at these specimuch
wheeling of manure or soil, to be fied distances; the foundation a brick
done during frost, which is too often and a half thick. The plan of jNIr. Silobliged
to be suspended at\er ten or|verlock, of Chichester, is worthy of
eleven o'clock, when there is clear sun- adoption, since if well constructed, it is
shine, from the ground getting soft and equally durable, and saves one-third of
clammy. With a covering of tan, the the expense. Walls so constructed are
operation may be continued throughout stated to become dry after rain, much
the day, and even during wet weather. more rapidly than a solid wall of the
If the tan remain permanently, it will
require renewing every two years.
same or any other thickness, and there
appears not a shadow of a reason why
it should not ripen fruit equally well.
He forms the wall hollow, nine inches
in breadth, by placing the bricks edgewise
so as to form two facings, they are
laid in good mortar, and the joints care-
Everblooming W.
fully finished. They are placed alternately
with their fices and ends to the
outsides, so that every second brick is
a tie, and in each succeeding course, a
brick with its end outwards is placed
on the centre of one laid lengthwise on
either side. The top of the wall must
be covered with a coping of stone or
bricks, projecting two inches. It is
strengthened at every twenty feet, by
piers of fourteen inch-work, built in the
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Besides these species and varieties, same manner, with bricks laid on edge,
there are many German Wall-flowers The mode of constructing the piers,
imported, mostly semi-double, and well obviating the disadvantages arising from
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worthy of culture for their peculiar CO- training branches round their sharp
lours and habits. angles, which often causes them to
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Sowing is best done in June, the gum, recommended by the Rev. T.Culseedlings
to be transplanted into nur- luni, of Bury St. Edmonds, is to have
sery beds when three inches high. They their corners bevelled. He also advises