Vases, hanging, 101-104

Vine cultivated in flower pot, 133

Violet, double climbing, 47

Virginia creeper, 124

W.

Watering, 13

Warmth, 16

Winter rose, 119

Wood pink, 46

Y.

Yxora, 148

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The epacris is a New Holland shrub, which the first settlers mistook for a kind of heath, and which is still called heath in Australia, where the true heath (_erica_) is unknown.--Mrs. Loudon’s _Ladies’ Companion to the Flower Garden_, edited by A. J. Downing.

[2] Tussilago--coltsfoot. _Vanilla tussilago_ is probably the tussilago fragrans.

[3] Round-shaped cacti, which take their name from their resemblance, in form and spines, to a curled-up hedgehog.--Mrs. Loudon’s _Ladies’ Companion to the Flower Garden_.

[4] HAND-GLASSES--Portable frames or covers, formed of iron, zinc, or wood, and glazed. These glasses differ from bell-glasses in being longer and composed of numerous small pieces of glass, which are fastened together by narrow strips of lead. Hand-glasses are generally square; but they may be made of an octagon, or any other shape that may be found most convenient; and they are sometimes made with a pane to open to admit air, or with the upper part to take off. This is very convenient; for as hand-glasses are chiefly used for protecting half-hardy plants during winter, it is necessary to give them air every fine day, and it is very troublesome to be obliged to lift the hand-glass off the plant, and to lay it on one side, whenever this is done. Bell-glasses, on the contrary, being principally for preventing the evaporation of moisture from the leaves of cuttings, do not require any opening, as the plants seldom want any air till they have rooted.--Mrs. Loudon’s _Ladies’ Companion for the Flower Garden_.

[5] Peat mixed with sand.

[6] From the word _pompon_, the worsted ornament worn in soldiers’ caps, in lieu of feathers.

[7] Frog-bit--a pretty little British water-plant with white flowers.--Mrs. London’s _Ladies’ Companion for the Flower Garden_.

[8] Description of the water ranunculus in America by Dr. Darlington, of West Chester, Pa., in his _Flora Cestrica_:--

“_Ranunculus_, Linn., (Latin _rana_, a frog, the plant often growing where frogs abound.)

“_Ranunculus aquatilis_, Linn., water ranunculus; _Vulgo_, river crowfoot.

“Root perennial. Stems numerous from the root, procumbently floating, nine to eighteen inches long, very slender, smooth, jointed, branching, and usually throwing out a couple of filiform roots at the joints. Leaves alternate, one at each joint, ... segments half an inch to an inch long.... Petals white or ochroleucous, yellow at base....

“Habitat, flowing waters; Brandywine, frequent. Flowers June to August.

“_Observation._--I have often found this plant entirely submersed (and usually in swift-running water) so deep that the flowers certainly never reached the surface. Professor De Candolle enumerates five varieties of this species, four of which Professor Hooker gives as natives of British America; but I have only met with the present one in this county, (Chester County, Pa.)”

[9] The althæa is an hibiscus.

[10] The eighth, being peculiarly a French strawberry, has been omitted.

[11] It would be well to try this method with other grapes.

[12] Order Bromeliaceæ (the pineapple family) consists of American and chiefly tropical plants; with rigid and dry channelled leaves, often with a scurfy surface; a mostly adnate perianth of three sepals and three petals, and six or more stamens; the seeds with mealy albumen.--Gray’s _Botanical Text Book_.

[13] Order Gesneriaceæ, consisting of tropical herbs, with green foliage and showy flowers.--Gray’s _Botanical Text Book_.

[14] There is an interesting history of the yxora in Mrs. Loudon’s book.

Transcriber's Notes:

Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.

Perceived typographical errors have been changed.