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be pinched off to induce lateral shoots. Shift them when the 

 pots get filled with roots; as they grow, continue stopping 

 the most vigorous shoots, both for the sake of keeping the 

 specimen within bounds, and to induce side-shoots, for the 

 blooms come towards the end of all the shoots. The best are 

 A. albicans, flowers white ; A. ilicifolia, flowers yellow, 

 purple, and green. 



ANTHOLYZA. [Iridace^.] Showy half-hardy bulbs. 

 If planted deep, beyond the influence of ordinaiy frosts, they 

 will live through the winter in warm, dry, sheltered situations. 

 Soil, deep sandy loam. They require merely to be planted 

 out, and left undisturbed for several years. Increased by 

 offsets. A. jEthiojrica, greenhouse bulb, flowers scarlet, in 

 May. A. prcealta, flowers orange, in February. 



ANTHYLLIS. Kidney Vetch. [Leguminosae.] Hand- 

 some free-blooming evergreen shrubby plants, perennials and 

 annuals, some few requiring a frame or greenhouse. The 

 hardy species are adapted for rockwork. The herbaceous 

 perennials increase freely by seed or division, and grow 

 readily in light sandy soil. The annuals grow in similar 

 soil, and propagate by seed. The shrubby species should be 

 grown in a mixture of equal parts loam and peat, and are 

 increased by cuttings planted in sandy soil and set into a hot- 

 bed, and very frequently by seed. There are many species 

 and varieties. 



ANTIRRHINUM. Snapdeagon. [Scrophulariace^.] 

 Hardy herbaceous plants, mostly perennials. The common 

 Snapdragon {A. majus), with its varieties, is the most im- 

 portant. It grows well in a common border, and seeds 

 freely. These may be sown in July or August in a pan or 

 wide-mouthed pot, to be j^lanted out, when large enough, in a 

 bed four feet wide, the plants six inches apart. In the 

 autumn, when they have become strong, they may be re- 

 moved where they are to bloom. Striking varieties, such as 

 the double-flowered and the striped-flowered, may be pro- 

 pagated by cuttings of the small unblooming shoots, inserted 

 in sandy soil under a hand-glass. When rooted they may 

 be potted singly, into the pots called sixties, and preseiTed 

 in frames during winter, ready to plant out in the follow- 

 ing April. They bloom very well in six-inch pots. The 



