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of flowers depending on the quantity of branches to bear them. 

 One of the prettiest modes of growing the most desirable 

 varieties is to support the main stems until they are the 

 height required, and then to let them form a head like a 

 standard tree, which they will do at five or ten feet high 

 equally well, and require nothing but trimming to the form 

 desired, so as to check the shoots when they are prone to 

 ramble too far ; and, in order to fill out any vacancies, super- 

 fluous shoots produced in one part may be trained so as to 

 make good the deficiencies. The flowers of the evergreen 

 Trumpet Honeysuckle (L. sempervirens), though very beautiful, 

 are inodorous. There are many varieties, all very fragrant, 

 but not verv different. 



LOOSESTRIFE. See Lysimachia. 

 LOPEZIA. [Onagraceae.] Hardy annuals of straggling 

 growth, forming a pretty mass when in flower. They may 

 be sown in March, along with the half-hardy kinds, for trans- 

 plantation, and again in April where they are intended to 

 bloom. Common soil. Seeds. The perennials propagated 

 by cuttings in summer. A greenhouse species, L. macro- 

 pJujlla, is a showy plant, and requires the treatment of 

 Fuchsia fuk/ens, having, like it, fleshy roots. 



LOPHOSPERMUM. [Scrophulariace£e.] Showy ever- 

 green greenhouse climbers, adapted also for planting in the 

 flower garden during the summer season, and for covering 

 trellis-work. These plants all bloom pretty freely through- 

 out the summer. They ripen seeds freely in fine seasons, 

 from which they are best propagated : they also strike readily 

 from cuttings. Planted out for the summer they flourish in 

 ordinarily good garden soil ; but if kept in pots, being large- 

 growing plants, they must have tolerably large pots of good 

 rich loamy soil, which, as the plants become large and begin 

 blooming, may be aided by applications of dilute liquid 

 manure, or by spreading a layer of dung on the surface, to be 

 washed in by the ordinary waterings. The old plants may be 

 kept through the winter in a greenhouse or protected frame 

 if their fleshy roots are kept tolerably dry. L. scandens is a 

 pretty plant for planting around the edges of raised rustic or 

 other flower-baskets, balconies, or similar places. See also 



PiHODOCHITON. 



