MYRTUS. 
covered with a bell-glass. Cut- 
tings will root, however, taken off 
at any season, and treated with 
common care. When cuttings are 
made of the old wood, they should 
be planted to the depth of half the 
space between the buds, as shown | 
in fig. 38. Myrtles may also be 
raised from seeds, which are pro- 
duced freely by the broad-leaved 
kinds. M. tomentosa is a native 
of China, with woolly leaves and 
purple flowers, which appear in 
June and July. M. piménxto, now 
Fig. 38.—A cutting of a Myrtle prepared for 
planting; the dotted line showing the 
ground. 
made Pimenta vulgaris, is a native 
of the West Indies, requiring a 
stove, and is the plant producing 
the common Allspice of the shops. 
The common broad-leaved Myrtle 
will stand the winter against a con- 
servative wall, in dry soil, in most 
parts of England, and also in Scot- 
land, more particularly in low situ- 
ations near the sea. At Nettle- 
comb, in Somersetshire, there are 
large trees covered with flowers. In 
most parts of Ireland it is as hardy 
as the common Laurustinus is in the 
climate of London. Garden hedges 
are made of it at Belfast, and also 
at Cork 
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NARCISSUS. 
N. 
Naruine half-hardy shrubs against 
a wallis an operation that should 
be performed with great care; and 
as the sole object of growing the 
shrubs is on account of their being 
ornamental, nothing should be shown 
which tends in the slightest degree 
to injure this effect. For this rea- 
son the nails should be small and 
| round-headed, and strips of leather 
or black tape are preferable to list. 
Leather is sometimes preferred to 
list, even for fruit-trees, because it 
does not harbour insects; but it is 
too expensive to be used on a large 
scale. In nailing ornamental shrubs 
the branches snould not be kept so 
close to the wall as fruit-trees, as 
half their beauty would be lost if 
they were deprived of their loose 
shoots. All that is required is te 
train the trunk and main branches. 
Napro.eon’s WEEPING WILLow.— 
This Willow differs from the com- 
mon kind in several respects, and it 
is probably the male variety of Sa- 
liz babylénica, of which only the 
female was formerly known in Eng- 
land. It is of much slower growth 
than the common kind, and there- 
fore much better adapted for plant- 
ing in a shrubbery. 
Naxci'ssus. — Amarylliddeee. — 
The genus Narcissus is a very ex- 
tensive one, embracing, as it does, 
the Jonquils, the Polyanthus Nar- 
cissus, the little Hoop Petticoat, 
the Poet’s Narcissus, and the Daf. 
fedils, besides numerous others. The 
jate Mr. Haworth paid great atten- 
tion to this genus, and divided it 
into thirteen new genera, none of 
which, however, have been adopted 
by other botanists, though their 
names have been preserved in the 
sections into which the genus Nar- 
cissus is now divided. All the Nar- 
i cissi are quite hardy, and will grow 
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