Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . of Europe, whichonly require to receive the commonfreatment of similar plants, and tos»e grown in any garden soil. Ofthe British species, the most re-markable are T. pratensis, the pop-ular name of which is Go-to-bed-at-noon, from the flowers closing inthe middle of the day, and whichhas large yellow flowers, and a verycurious feathery head of seeds ; andT. porrifolius, the common Salsafy,which has purple flowers, and theroots of which are occasionallydressed as a vegetable. Tragopy^rum. — PolygonecB. —Goats Wheat. Ornamental shrubbyp
Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . of Europe, whichonly require to receive the commonfreatment of similar plants, and tos»e grown in any garden soil. Ofthe British species, the most re-markable are T. pratensis, the pop-ular name of which is Go-to-bed-at-noon, from the flowers closing inthe middle of the day, and whichhas large yellow flowers, and a verycurious feathery head of seeds ; andT. porrifolius, the common Salsafy,which has purple flowers, and theroots of which are occasionallydressed as a vegetable. Tragopy^rum. — PolygonecB. —Goats Wheat. Ornamental shrubbyplants, with pink flowers, nativesof Europe and America, whichSuCuW b*^ ^j-own in very sandyloam, or heath-mouW- Traixing is an important opera-tion, whether it be applied to nail-ing trees against a wall, or to train-ing herbaceous plants over an ironor wooden frame-work. ClimbingRoses may be trained as pyramidsby fixing a pole with three legs, orthree poles, in the ground and sus-pending hoops from them, as shownin Jig. 58, and this mode of training. 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 TRIFOLIUM.
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