. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE OP PLANTS. 85 Alyssums is hard and semi-woody, and takes a long while to root. Flowering so profusely as A. saxatile flud other kindred species, the plants grow slowly. Cuttings should be put in, in May, on a gentle hot-hed, and hardened off and planted out as soon as rooted. Thus treated they will bloom next year. The best of the Alyssums do not readily lend them selves to root-division. But when this is possible, it affords a ready means of increase, which should never be over-looked or neglected. Some species seed rather freely, but
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE OP PLANTS. 85 Alyssums is hard and semi-woody, and takes a long while to root. Flowering so profusely as A. saxatile flud other kindred species, the plants grow slowly. Cuttings should be put in, in May, on a gentle hot-hed, and hardened off and planted out as soon as rooted. Thus treated they will bloom next year. The best of the Alyssums do not readily lend them selves to root-division. But when this is possible, it affords a ready means of increase, which should never be over-looked or neglected. Some species seed rather freely, but as a general rule, and in most gardens, the better species of Alyssum seldom seed very freely. When seeds do ripen, save, and sow as soon as ripe, choosing a nice shel- tered place for them, and sovring the seeds thinly to give the plants the full benefit of light and air from , the first. It is had practice to sow Alys- sums under glass or in any confined place, as the plantlets are most impatient of con- finement, especially in their infantile state. To have them in per- fection, they should know no overcrowding from the time they break ground as seed- lings until they die of old age. What is popularly knovTn as 'the Sweet Alyssum in gardens is a free-blooming, honey-scented white aimual, the most popular of the family, extensively used for small beds and edgiftgs. Its botanical name is Alyssum maritimmn. It should be sown in the open air, where it is to bloom, at any time from February to May. When once introduced into a bed or border, it mostly reproduces itself, and holds its own, with- little more trouble. There,is a variegated - variety of this, mostly propagated by cuttings, and kept over the winter under glass, the same as verbenas or other bedding plants, though this is also hardy' in mild localities. This is known as the Koniga maritimum variegatum, grows to a height of from six to nine inches, has small white not very conspicuous flowers, but its narrow leaves are
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