. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE LIFE-HISTOKY OF PLA:NTS. So Alyssums is hard and semi-woody, and takes a long while to root\ Flowering so profusely as A. sax at He and other kindred species, the plants grow slowly. Cuttings should be put in, in May, on a gentle hot-hed, and hardened o:ff 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, b
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE LIFE-HISTOKY OF PLA:NTS. So Alyssums is hard and semi-woody, and takes a long while to root\ Flowering so profusely as A. sax at He and other kindred species, the plants grow slowly. Cuttings should be put in, in May, on a gentle hot-hed, and hardened o:ff 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 fi^eely. When seeds do ripen, save, and sow as soon as ripe, choosing a nice shel- tered place for them, and sowing the seeds thinly to give the plants the full benefit of light and air fi'om the fii^st. It is bad 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 groxmd as seed- lings until they die of old age. What is popularly knovrn as the Sweet Alyssum in gardens is a free-blooming, honey-scented white annual, the mo 4 popular of the family, extensively used for small beds and edgings. Its botanical name is Alyssum maritimum. It should be so^tl in the open air, where it is to bloom, at any time from February to May. AA^hen 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 Eoniga maritimum variegaticm, 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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