THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Alchemilla— continued. 
Hardy herbaceous perennials, with corymbose, apetalous 
flowers; calyx tubular, with the tube rather contracted at 
the apex. Leaves palmate or lobed. Of very easy culture, 
in common, but well drained soil. They are well adapted 
` for rockwork and planting near the front of borders. Easily 
increased by divisions of the roots, and seeds. All here 
described are hardy, except A. sibbaldiafolia. 
A, alpina (alpine).* fl. greenish, small; corymbose, June. 
l digitate; leaflets five to seven, lanceolate-cuneated, obtuse, 
wo” clothed with white satiny down beneath. h. Cin. 
ritain, 
A. pubescens (pubescent). fl. greenish; corymbs terminal, 
crowded, Siothes with a coating or long weak hairs. June. a 
a roundish-reniform, seven-lobed, toothed, silky beneath. A. 6in. 
to 8in. Caucasus (Higher), 1813. 
A. sericea (silky).* fl. greenish, corymbose. June. l digitate ; 
leaflets seven, lanceo te- obovate, obtuse, connected at the base, 
serrated at the apex, clothed with satiny down beneath. h. about 
6in. Caucasus, 1813. Much larger in every part than A. alpina, 
to which it is cl is closely allied. 
A. Sibbaldizfolia (Sibbaldia-leaved). jf. white, sonererate.: : 
stem corymbosely many-flowered at the apex. July. l. deeply- 
three-parted, clothed with adpressed ubescence beneath ; seg- 
ments deeply serrated, lateral ones bifid. h. 6in. Mexico, 1 
A greenhouse species, which should be grown in small well- drained 
pots, with a mixture of leaf soil and sandy loam. 
: ALDER. See Alnus. 
ALETRIS (from aletron, meal; referring to the 
powdery appearance of the whole plant). . The American 
Star Grass. Syn. Tritonia. ORD. Homodoracee. In- 
teresting hardy herbaceous perennials, closely allied to the 
Amaryllids. Perianth half-inferior, tubular; limb spreading 
or funnel-shaped; stamens inserted base of perianth seg- 
ments, filaments flat. They delight in a sunny but damp 
situation, with peat, leaf mould, and ee 
-increased by division of the roots. 
aurea yellow, bell-sha) 
es ens te pd Ae. toate North 
capensis (Cape). Aie Pokretna vuriiiiiia, 
A, farinosa (mealy).* arn white, shaped, rie terminal 
5 upon stems 1ft. a oft. rege L tanseotate, 
i North cage gy ar coe A i dwarf perennial, 
‘ere a spreading tufi tensely bitter pro- 
dris (from the Greek word signifying floury ; 
all the parts of the plant seeming to be dusted with a 
farinaceous substance). Orp. Euphorbiacee. A hand- 
some stove evergreen tree, with small, white, clustered 
flowers. Leaves alternate stalked, exstipulate. It is of 
easy culture in a loamy soil. Ripe cuttings, with their 
leaves untouched, root readily in sand, under a hand 
glass. 
A. trileba (three-lobed).* The Candleberry Tree. l. PR lobed, 
: Ce age Fa h. Xft. to 40ft. Moluccas and South Pacific 
AENKANDERS. See Smyrnium. 
ALEXANDRIAN LAUREL. See Ruscus race- 
mosus. 
ALGAROBA BEAN or CAROB. See Cera- 
tonia. 
 ALHAGI (its Arabian name). Orp. Leguminose. 
Manna Tree. Greenhouse shrubs or sub-shrubs, with 
simple lonves, anà Sinai hpulas. Flowers 
pots filled with a mixture of sand, 
over them, in heat; but by seeds, if they can be 
sown in a hotbed, is a preferable mode of in- 
creasing the plants. They may be placed out of doors 
‘the summer months. 
red, few, disposed in 
Jaik l. lanceolate, potoso, ails 
e Serbaceous, h. 1ft, 
ing cuttings will root in sand, with ® bell Pies T 
purple in the middle, and reddish’ 4 
racemes the s * 
fering —continued. 
t, &c. The Manna is a natural exudation from the branches ` 
leaves of this shrub, which takes place only in very hot 
weather: 
ALIBERTIA (in honour of M. Alibert, a celebrated 
French chemist, author of “ Traite des Fievres Attaxiques,” 
wherein he mentions the effects of Peruvian bark). ORD. 
Cinchonacee. A small stove evergreen tree, very orna- 
mental when in flower. Flowers solitary or fascicled, 
dicecious; corolla leathery, tubular. A mixture of loam 
and peat is the best soil. Cuttings strike root freely, 
in a similar kind of soil, under a hand glass, in a moist 
heat. r i 
A. edulis (edible). jl. cream-coloured, solitary or in fascicles, 
i panana the branches, almost sessile, June. Jr. edible, 
re AE leathery, oblong, acuminated, shining above, and 
Bear ed in the axils of the veins beneath, h. 12ft. Guiana, 
pete SODA. See Salsola. 
ALISMA (from alis, the Celtic word for water). Water 
Plantain. Syn. Actinocarpus. Orn. Alismacew. A gews — 
entirely composed of hardy aquatic species. Flowers three- 
petalled. Leaves parallel-veined. Increascd by division or 
secds. The latter should oo wots 
water, filled with loam, peat, and 
freely in a moist say soil. The 
easily grown. ; ; 
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