Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . Fig. 58.—diodes of Tmininff Roses, &c., toform Fyraruicfs. may be applied to various otherplants. in pots may betrained by fixing a number of sticksor pins of iron, with hooks attached(a) in the earth, in the pot, andresting hoops on them, as shown infig. 59. Trapa. —HydrocharidecB.—Wa-ter Caltrops. Aquatic plants, na-tives of Europe and the East In-dies, with white flowers, and verycurious nuts, which, when cooked,resemble in taste those of the chest-nut, and are equally rhizoma should be planted, orthe seeds so
Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . Fig. 58.—diodes of Tmininff Roses, &c., toform Fyraruicfs. may be applied to various otherplants. in pots may betrained by fixing a number of sticksor pins of iron, with hooks attached(a) in the earth, in the pot, andresting hoops on them, as shown infig. 59. Trapa. —HydrocharidecB.—Wa-ter Caltrops. Aquatic plants, na-tives of Europe and the East In-dies, with white flowers, and verycurious nuts, which, when cooked,resemble in taste those of the chest-nut, and are equally rhizoma should be planted, orthe seeds sown, in loamy soil, at thebottom of the water in which theplant is to grow. Travellers Joy.—Clematis Vi-tdlba. Tree Carnation.—Didnthus ar-horeus is in its wild state probably TREE MALLOW. 396 Fig. 59.—Modes of Training Plants in Pots. only the common Carnation, whichhas been trained against a wall,and, by being kept continuallygrowing, has been forced to takethe character of a tree. It shouldbe planted in calcareous loam,against an east or west wall, andcarefully trained, giving it a littleprotection in case of severe frosts. Tree M.\llow. — Lavntira. —Besides the common annual speciesof Lavatera, there are nine or tenspecies which are shrubby, and oneof which, L. phosnicea, a native ofthe Canary Isles, is a tree ten feethigh. L. maritlina is the common-est kind; and as this is a nativeof Spain and the south of France,it will thrive in the open air inEngland, if slightly protected duringsevere frosts. L. iriloha, L. suho-vdta, and L. africana, have all thesame degree of hardiness, and theywill all live and flower in Britishgardens, if about the same care bebestowed on them as is usually^iven to the tree Peony. L Olbia, with reddish flowers, L. Pseudo-Olhia, with pale
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