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Avood, is a favourite in cottage gardens ; the rest are 

 unimportant. Common soil. Propagated by cuttings. 



ARTHROPODIUM. [Liliacese.] Greenhouse peren- 

 nials. Soil, sandy loam and peat. Propagated by offsets, 

 suckers, or by seeds. A. cirratum, A. Jimbriatum, and A. 

 jpanicidatum, flower white. 



APtUM. [Aracese.] Curious perennials. The majority 

 hardy, but some requiring a greenhouse, others a stove. It 

 is the floral sheath or spathe of these plants that forms the 

 conspicuous part of the inflorescence. The tender kinds 

 should have rich loam, and plenty of water while growing. 

 For the hardy sorts, any common soil that is deep. Propa- 

 gated by suckers. The sorts are A. arisarum, yellowish ; 

 A. crinitum, greenhouse perennial, brown ; A. dracunculus, 

 hardy, brown ; A. ItaUcum, hardy, flowers yellowish. 



ARUNDO. Water Reed. [Gramineae.] Noble hardy 

 reedy perennials. Damp common soil. Propagated by 

 division. 



ASCLEPIAS. Swallow-wort. [Asclepiadaeeae.] Her- 

 baceous perennials, including stove, greenhouse, and hardy 

 kinds. For the tender kinds, rich loam and leaf-mould in 

 equal parts. They are best raised from seeds, which are 

 generally produced freely, and the plants should be often 

 renewed : they may also be raised by cuttings in sand in a 

 hotbed. The seed should be sown in pots in the spring, and 

 the plants pricked out as soon as large enough, afterwards 

 potted singly, and shifted into larger pots as they grow. 

 Most of the hardy sorts grow^ in good deep garden soil, but 

 A. tuberosa should have three parts peat to one of good loam. 

 These are increased by division. A. Curassavica, stove 

 perennial, flowers orange and scarlet. A white variety is 

 called alba ; a long-leaved deep red variety is called rubra : 

 these are veiy desirable stove plants. A. tuberosa, hardy 

 tuberous perennial, flowers orange scarlet. 



ASH. See Fraxinus. 



ASPALATHUS. [Leguminosae.] Very pretty evergreen 

 greenhouse shrubs, with yellow papilionaceous flowers. 

 Natives of the Cape of Good Hope, but probably not now in 

 cultivation. A neglected genus. Soil, sandy loam and peat 

 in equal parts. Propagated by cuttings in sand under bell- 



