. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1452. Myristica fragrans—the Nutmeg (X 34). The upper sprays are from the staminate tree. maicaup to 2,000 feet, but the fruit is not so abundant nor the nut so large as at lower elevations. The soil must be a deep, rich loam, well drained. The seedlings have a tap-root which is very easily injured in trans- pl
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1452. Myristica fragrans—the Nutmeg (X 34). The upper sprays are from the staminate tree. maicaup to 2,000 feet, but the fruit is not so abundant nor the nut so large as at lower elevations. The soil must be a deep, rich loam, well drained. The seedlings have a tap-root which is very easily injured in trans- planting. The method usually adopted for growing them is to sow the seeds in bamboo pots, one in each. When they are ready for planting in their permanent places, the bamboo is slit, and the soil, with the plant, gently put into the prepared hole. It is only when they first flower that it is possible to tell the sex of the tree. Nothing is known of the conditions which determine the sex. In Grenada, the usual proportion of male trees to female is said to be as 3 to 1, though sometimes 40 or 50 trees close together will all be either male or female. As the trees generally flower when they are 6 or 7 years old, there is great waste in the growth of male trees. In the Botanic Gardens in Jamaica, it has been found possible to graft the Nutmeg, so that a loss of this kind should not occur again; the plan is, take young seed- lings and graft, by approach, the thinnest twigs of a female tree. -^n. Fawcett. M'4'KKHIS (from the Greek word for perfume). JJm- helUfene. Myebh. Sweet Cicely. One perennial herb native to Europe, and an immigrant to other countries, sometimes grown in gardens for its pleasing scent and anciently used as a flavoring in salads. In America Myrrhis is represented by Osmorhiza, which is known as Sweet Cicely. Two or three of the American plants have been named under Myrrhis, but Coulter and Rose (Revision N. Amer. Umbelliferae, 1888) contrast the two genera and re
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