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shrubs. Soil, sandy loam and fibrj peat. Propagated by 

 cuttings of the ripe slioots in sand under bell-glasses. L. for- 

 mosa, with red flowers in July, is the handsomest. 



LAMB'S LETTUCE. See Valeeianella. 



LAMIUM. [Lamiacese.] Hardy plants, of which some 

 of the dwarf perennial kind varieties, and L maculatum, 

 with variegated foliage and white or red blossoms, are 

 pretty subjects for rockwork. Common soil. Increased by 

 division. 



LANTANA. [Verbenaceae.] Stove shrubs, many of the 

 more showy of which, however, may be considered as green- 

 house plants if they can be started in spring in a frame or 

 warmer house. The larger species should be kept rather 

 dry in winter, when they will be induced to rest, and will 

 lose their foliage ; but if they are excited at that season they 

 continue growing and remain evergreen. In spring, about 

 February, they are to be pruned close back, and started to 

 grow in a stove or warm pit. They are free growers, and 

 require to be shifted into larger pots as their roots become 

 numerous. They should have a free rich loamy soil, con- 

 sisting of loam, peat, and leaf-mould, equal parts, with sand 

 added if necessary. The young shoots in spring should be 

 freely stopped to produce bushy growth. L. Selloiviana 

 should have three parts sandy peat earth in the compost, and, 

 though rested by comparative dryness and coolness in winter, 

 ought not to be dried so much as the larger sorts. They do 

 not require the temperature of the stove — that of an inter- 

 mediate house suits them best. In warm and dry situations, 

 w^here the soil is rather sandy, L. Selloiviana forms good 

 beds in the flower garden, looking like a purple Verbena; 

 and some of the larger orange-flowered species succeed 

 under the same treatment in favourable summers. Cuttings 

 root very readily in sand, planted in the usual way, and set 

 in a hotbed. Young plants should be raised from cuttings 

 during summer, to be shifted on for flowx-ring the follow- 

 ing spring. 



LAPAGERIA. [Philesiacese.] A beautiful half-hardy 

 twining perennral. The soil should be three parts peat earth 

 to one of loam, and the situation should be cool, moist, and 

 shady. The climate of a temperate fern house would be suit- 



