. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture . BO^A. I Yellow Vetchlixg.—Ldthyrus \. FIG. 60.—YDCCA DKACOKIS. commonest kinds in British gar-dens are Y. gloriosa, Y. draconis,and Y. filamentosa. All these arenatives of North America, and arequite hardy in Britain; they haveall white flowers, and they are Aloe-like slu-ubs, presenting the general —A British climbing Yetcb,with yellow flowers, only found insandy soils. Yellow Wort.—Clddra perfo
. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture . BO^A. I Yellow Vetchlixg.—Ldthyrus \. FIG. 60.—YDCCA DKACOKIS. commonest kinds in British gar-dens are Y. gloriosa, Y. draconis,and Y. filamentosa. All these arenatives of North America, and arequite hardy in Britain; they haveall white flowers, and they are Aloe-like slu-ubs, presenting the general —A British climbing Yetcb,with yellow flowers, only found insandy soils. Yellow Wort.—Clddra perfo-lidta. — A British annual, wdthglaucous leaves and yellow is always found in a wild state inchalky soils, and it will seldom growin gardens unless the soil be chalky,or of a calcareous loam. Yew Tree.—See Taxus. Yucca.—Liliacece, or Tidipdcece.—Adams Needle. —Evergreen plantswith leaves like the Aloe, and some-times a stem, or rather trunk, likea Palm-tree. Some of the specieshave been known to have a trunktwenty feet high, sending up, everyyear, five or six immense flower-stems, each six or eight feet ordinary cases, however, thetrunk is rarely more than two orthree feet high, though th
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