MOWING. 993 MULCHING. 
composed chiefly of rotten leaves;!short and smooth. It is the most 
dung-mould, of dung reduced to a} laborious operation which falls tc 
dry “powdery matter ; ; and heath- | the lot of the working-gardener, and 
mould, consisting of the black vege- | in large places there are generally 
table soil found on the surface of | a set of labourers who are not gar- 
heaths, and always more or less | deners, who are kept on purpose for 
mixed with sand. The two first it. A substitute for mowing with 
kinds of mould are used for growing | the scythe has lately been intro- 
plants which in cultivation are coves in the form of a mowing-ma- 
siderably removed from a state o ine, which requires far less skill 
nature, such as Pelargoniums, China | and exertion than the scythe, and 
Roses, Fuchsias, Balsams, Petunias, | answers perfectly where the surface 
and a great many others; and the | of the soil to be mowed is perfectly 
heath-mould is used in the culture | | smooth and firm, the grass of even 
of Heaths and of Ericacez, and '| 
more or less in most New Holland | 
and Cape shrubs, and in bulbs. In| 
general, all plants whatever, from 
the Oak to the Moss, will grow in 
heath-mould alone, and therefore 
it is a particularly useful soil in| 
which to raise seedlings; and m 
this respect. it differs materially 
from leaf-mould and dung-mould, 
in which they will not grow. 
vegetables and manure mixed with 
a finer part of the soil, thoroughly | 
pulverized by repeated digging, rak- 
ing, and hoeing. 
Mountain Asu—Py‘rus aucu- 
paria.—A well-known tree, very 
ornamental in shrubberies for the | 
abundance of red berries with which | 
it is covered every autumn. It is 
quite hardy, and will grow in any 
soil and situation. 
Movuse.— Mice are sometimes | 
troublesome in gardens in country 
places, particularly where there are | 
many bulbs planted, as they eat the | 
solid bulbs or corms. ‘To prevent 
their ravages, chopped furze is some- 
times buried with the bulbs, or the 
clipping of those hedges or rose- 
“ briers is laid over the bed. 
Movine Puant. — Hedy'sarum 
gy‘rans. 
Mowrne is an operation perform- 
ed with the scythe, and in orna- 
mental gardening it is used for the 
purpose of keeping the grass quit 
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Gar- | 
den mould is composed of decayed | 
quality, and the mac hine only use 2 
in dry weather. It is particuli 
adapted for amateurs, affording an 
excellent exercise to the arms and 
every part of the body; but it is 
proper to observe that many gar- 
deners are prejudiced against it. 
Where a lawn is varied by numer- 
ous small beds or single trees or 
| bushes, the scythe is required, in 
addition to the machine, for mowing 
_up close to the branches or stems ot 
the plants; but where an amateur 
mows his own lawn with a ma- 
chine, a better instrument than the 
scythe for the purpose mentioned, 
is a pair of common hedge-shears, 
| with which the grass may be clip- 
ped as short as it can be mown. 
When a lawn is newly formed, and 
the soil is rich, it will require to be 
/mown every eight or ten days for 
the first and second summers ; but 
afterwards, when the soil becomes 
| exhausted, and the grass grows with 
less vigour, once a fortnight for the 
three summer months will suffice, 
and once every three weeks or a 
month for the autumn. 
Mucu\na.— Leguminése.—Cow- 
itch. A stove plant, with beautiful 
drooping racemes of large purple 
flowers. The seeds are covered with 
short stiff hairs, very irritating to 
the skin. 
Muucuine is seldom used in 
flower-gardens, though it may be 
pppied advantageously to Camel- 
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