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nial. Division or seeds. Loam and ZIERIA. Ten species. Green-house<br />

peat.<br />

XYLOMELUM pyriforme. Greenliouse<br />

evergreen tree. Ripe cuttings.<br />

Loam, peat, and sand.<br />

XYLOPHYLLA. Eleven species.<br />

Stove evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings.<br />

Loam and peat.<br />

evergreen shrubs. Young cuttings. Sandy<br />

loam and peat.<br />

ZIGADENLS. Five species. Hardy<br />

herbaceous perennials. Division or<br />

seeds. Peaty moist soil.<br />

ZILLA. Two species. Half-hardy<br />

evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Light rich<br />

XYLOPLA.. Three species.<br />

evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings.<br />

Stove<br />

Loam<br />

soil.<br />

ZIXZIBER. Ginger. Thirteen spe-<br />

and peat.<br />

YELLOW SULTAN. Centaurea suacies.<br />

Stove herbaceous perennials,<br />

except Z. miega, which belongs to the<br />

veolens.<br />

YELLOW-TAILED MOTH. See<br />

green-house.<br />

and sand.<br />

Division. Loam, peat,<br />

Bombyi.<br />

YEW TREE. Taxus.<br />

YUCCA. Adam's Needle. Thirteen<br />

ZINNL\. Eight species. Hardy annuals.<br />

Seeds. Rich mould, or common<br />

soil.<br />

species. Hardy, stove, and green-house ZIZIA. Three species. Hardy herbevergreen<br />

shrubs, and a few hardy herb- aceous perennials Division or seeds.<br />

aceous perennials. Y. pendula, a vari- Moist soil,<br />

ety <strong>of</strong> Y. aloifolia, is a hardy deciduous ZIZIPHORA. Seven species. Hardy<br />

tree. Suckers. Light rich soil. annuals, Z. acmo/des a hardy deciduous<br />

" Cut the flower-stem <strong>of</strong>f Yucca glori- trailer, and the others half-hardy everosa<br />

directly it has done flowering, and<br />

take away all the suckers, except two<br />

or three <strong>of</strong> the strongest. Then remove<br />

green shrubs. The latter increase by<br />

cuttings, the former by seeds. Common<br />

soil.<br />

a little <strong>of</strong> the soil round the bottom <strong>of</strong> ZIZYPHUS. Lotus. Fourteen spethe<br />

plant, and replace it with a dressing cies. Stove, green-house, hardy, and<br />

<strong>of</strong> equal parts <strong>of</strong> sandy loam and cow- half-hardy evergreen, and a few hardy<br />

dung." Card. Chron. deciduous shrubs. The stove and green-<br />

ZAMIA. Twenty-one species. Stove house kinds increase by ripe cuttings,<br />

or green-house herbaceous perennials, and succeed in loam, peat, and sand;<br />

Suckers. Light sandy soil. the hardy kinds by ripe cuttings or lay-<br />

ZEBRA PLANT. Calathea zebrina. ers, and require a rich soil.<br />

ZEPHYRANTHES. Eleven species. ZORNL\. Seven species. Stove an-<br />

Green-house and half-hardy bulbous pe- nuals and green-house herbaceous perennials,<br />

and a few hardy and half-hardy rennials. Seeds. Peat and loam,<br />

herbaceous perennials. Off^sets. Turfy ZYGOPETALUM. Six species. Stove<br />

loam, peat, and sand. orchids. Division. Peat and potsherds.<br />

ZEXME^IA tagetijlora. Half-hardy ZYGOPHYLLUiAL Thirteen species,<br />

herbaceous perennial. Seeds. Com- Green-house and stove evergreen shrubs,<br />

mon soil. Cuttings. Loam, peat, and sand. Z.<br />

ZICHYA. Three species. Green- prostratum is a trailer ; Z. simplex, a<br />

house evergreen twiners. Young cut- half hardy annual ; and Z./a6ag:o is in-<br />

tings. Sandy loam and peat. creased by seeds only.<br />

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