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THE FLORAL WORLD AND aARDEX H-UIDE. 



ANNUALS OF TALL GROWTH FOE THE 

 SHKUBBERY. 



Californian Sunflower, Giant 

 Prince's Feather, Malope grandiflora, 

 Love-lies-bleeding, Argemone grandi- 

 flora, Cannabis gigantea, Centaurea 

 cyanus major, Clienopodium atripli- 

 cifolium, Convolvulus major, Hele- 

 nium Douglasi, Iporaopsis elegana, 

 Loasa Herberti, Lnpinus mutabilis 

 and Cruiksbanki, Nicotiana glauca, 

 E-icinus Africanus (H. H.) 



ANNUALS WITH ORNAMENTAL FOLIACB. 



Atriplex hortcnsis rubra, Amaran- 

 tbus melancholicus ruber, rich red, 

 Ricinus communis (H. H.). Brazilian 

 and crimson-topped Beet, Cannas, va- 

 rious (may be planted out and kept 

 over winter if taken up before frost), 

 Clienopodium atriplicil'oliura (uurplej, 

 Milk-tliistle, Perilia nankinens-is (pur- 

 ple), Venus's jVavel-wort, common 

 Garden Beet. 



ESPALIER TEEES. 



Espalier trees are rarely to be seen 

 so well trained as they are represented 

 in diagrams. In spite of the utmost 

 care robber shoots will break out 

 where not wanted, and sometimes get 

 far ahead without detection. In other 

 cases breaks cannot be got with such 

 regularity as to furnish the tree 

 throughout with the uniformity of 

 a drawing made with rule and com- 

 passes. But as an early habit of 

 fruitfulness may be certainly pro- 

 moted by good training, and as all 

 the errors of the cultivator even for 

 years past are revealed on the first 



HOEIZOHTALLT-TBAIWED PEAE-TKEE 



glance at a lot of espaliers, it is im- 

 portant to give some special atten- 

 tion to this department of practice. 



Espaliers are used to cover walls and 

 fences, and to form boundary lines to 

 walks. When the trees are received 

 from the nurseries their general out- 

 lines are already formed, and tlie cul- 

 tivator will have to prune and train 

 in such a way as to get the trees re- 

 gularly furnished without crowding 

 and without allowing breast-wood to 

 spoil the plan. Volumes hive been 

 written, and may be written again, to 

 illustrate the various modes of train- 

 ing, and after all the cultivator will 

 have to learn much by observation 

 and practice, and must expect to 

 make a few mis- 

 takes even with the 

 best of books to 

 guide him. Our in- 

 tention now is to 

 offer a few obser- 

 vations of a general 

 kind for the guid- 

 ance of a few corre- 

 spondents who ask 

 for advice before it 

 is too late to plant 

 trees this season. 



The simplest of 

 all trellises for the 

 boundary walks of 

 a kitchen garden is 

 one formed of oak 

 posts and galvan- 

 ized wires. The 

 distances between 

 the wires and posts 

 must vary with circumstances. In 

 our own garden we have a trellis 

 for pears and apples, which consists 



