. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 46 THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [April 24. which the order of Nightshades is named, an order com- prising from nine hundi'ed to a thousand species, the. lialf of which is included in the genus Solanum itself. The order contains the narcotic poisons Henbane, Man- drake, and Deadly Nir/htahade, with others more or less vh-ulent, all or most, of which, however, ai'e valuable medicines in the hands of practitioners, though dan- gerous to, and always to be suspected b}', such as are not awai-e of the force of their natural qualities. Other species are pungent
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 46 THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [April 24. which the order of Nightshades is named, an order com- prising from nine hundi'ed to a thousand species, the. lialf of which is included in the genus Solanum itself. The order contains the narcotic poisons Henbane, Man- drake, and Deadly Nir/htahade, with others more or less vh-ulent, all or most, of which, however, ai'e valuable medicines in the hands of practitioners, though dan- gerous to, and always to be suspected b}', such as are not awai-e of the force of their natural qualities. Other species are pungent and powerful stimidants, as Cayenne pepiier. which is the gi'ound jiods, &c., of a species of Capsicum, while the tubers of the Potato supply whole- some food for man. The genus Solamlra, as now restricted, is a small one, the species, however, are no less remarkable for their beauty than for the large size of their flowBrs, more especially Sohindra yrunrliflora, which in many countries is trained like the Glycine sinensis, and attains to an equal size, flowering on the spurs and young wood made during the previous year. A few years back there was a large plant of it trained against the garden wall of the Governor of Malta, at St. Antonio, where it covered a siu'face fifty or sixty feet in length, and flowered magnificently in the early part of summer. Can any reader inform us if this plant is still living, and what the dimensions are ? From what we know of the diflereut species in other countries, we believe all Solundros would flower more freely if they were subjected to a dry greenhouse treatment from October to Apii], and great heat and sunliglit when they were growing. They were iu great reinite I'oiTnerly witli our gai'deners, but from a supposed difficuky of bringing them into flower they have undeservedly fallen into great disuse of late years. Sweet recommended strong soil for them, and great heat when growing ; and lie recommended to propagate them by young liranc
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