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bloom ; or some of tliem may be potted and kept in frames 

 daring winter, to be planted out in spring. They will bloom 

 the following May and June. Cuttings may be struck from 

 these two-year Stocks, when they are tine enough to be 

 worth it, under a glass in the comm.on borders like Wall- 

 flowers. M. tristis, the night-smelling Stock, is a greenhouse 

 shrub, and though not showy, the flowers being of a dull 

 livid colour, yet it is desirable on account of its powerful 

 vespertine fragrance. This grows in a li^ht, sandy, loamy 

 compost, and is propagated by cuttings. There is no limit to 

 the varieties. 



MATRICARIA. [Composite.] Weedy hardy annuals for 

 the most part, with single white Daisy-like flowers. The only 

 exception worth cultivating is a double-flowered variety of 

 M. chamomiUa, called grandiflora, which, as it does not bear 

 seed, may, if frequently renewed, be continued as a perennial : 

 its double white blossoms render it deserving of being grown 

 in a mixed border. The young shoots should be taken off from 

 near the root, and treated like cuttings. Common garden soil. 



MAURANDYA. [Scrophulariacete.] Ornamental green- 

 house climbers of slender habit, and also suitable for planting 

 in the open air during the summer, for the purpose of cover- 

 ing wire fences, pillars, &c. They are best raised from seeds, 

 which, to insure strong blooming plants, should be sown about 

 June, and the young plants potted singly, and kept in small 

 pots during winter in a greenhouse. These, if shifted into 

 larger pots in February or March, will be strong and vigorous 

 by the planting-out time — May. For the greenhouse they 

 require shifting into large pots of rich soil, of which the basis 

 is sandy loam, and training about pillars, short rafters, or 

 suitable trellises. They grow to a considerable size when 

 their roots have free scope. They may be increased from 

 cuttings, which root readily in sand in a hotbed. M. Bar- 

 clayana, greenhouse climbing perennial, flowers purple, or 

 rose-coloured, or white, all summer. 



MEADOW RUE. See Thalictrum. 



MEADOW SAFFRON. See Colchicum. 



MECONOPSIS. [Papaveraceae.] Hardy Poppy-like her- 

 baceous perennials. Soil, sandy loam. Increased by seeds 

 sown in May, or by division. 



