. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. TENDER PLANTS FOR THE SUMMER GARDEN. 55 and Grevillea robusla is another subject of particularly graceful habit thai is valuable in sub-tropical gardening; it can be plunged in the bed well over the rim of the pot, and il repotted after being removed in (lie autumn, may be kept in g I health Tor some years. Melianthus major is a plain that, in certain favoured spots in the south-west, proves hardy in il e open. lis large, deeply-cut, glaucous leaves give it a striking appearance and render it worthy
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. TENDER PLANTS FOR THE SUMMER GARDEN. 55 and Grevillea robusla is another subject of particularly graceful habit thai is valuable in sub-tropical gardening; it can be plunged in the bed well over the rim of the pot, and il repotted after being removed in (lie autumn, may be kept in g I health Tor some years. Melianthus major is a plain that, in certain favoured spots in the south-west, proves hardy in il e open. lis large, deeply-cut, glaucous leaves give it a striking appearance and render it worthy of a position in the sub- tropical garden. In all but very cold localities, or where the soil is exceptionally damp and heavy, il may be kept through the winter unharmed it its roots are covered with leaf-mould, rough litter, cocoa-nut fibre, or coal ashes. Musa Ensete is, without doubt, one of t he mi >st attractive features of the sub-tropical garden when in vigorous health. Glass shelter during the winter is a necessity for these plants, though cases have been known where specimens, artificially sheltered, have passed through a winter in the open ; but where they have survived they have usually grown in very large pots or tubs under glass during the winter, and plunged in the open during the summer months. Good kinds lor this method ol culture are Latania borbonica, Seaforthia elegans, Phcenix canadensis, and Kentia Forsteriana. Certain ol the Tree Ferns are also exceedingly decorative in the shady parts of the sub- tropical garden. In a few favoured spots in South-western England and Southern Ireland fine specimens of Tree f erns may be seen planted out in the open and apparently in the best of health, but in the majority of cases tub- culture under glass in the winter, and plunging in the open air during the summer, must be the method resorted to. Good kinds for such treatment are Dicksonia antarctica and D. squarrosa, Cyathea dealbata, and C. medullaris. Of flowering
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