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in any common garden soil; and 
they are all increased by offsets. 
They may be left in the ground 
several years without sustaming 
- > any injury ; the only care necessary 
in their culture being not to shorten 
or cut off the leaves after the plant 
has flowered, but to leave them on 
till they wither naturally, as their 
assistance is necessary to mature 
the new bulb, which forms every 
year in the place of the old one. It 
is the more necessary to attend to 
this, as many gardeners, from a mis- 
taken idea of neatness, cut off the 
leaves of the Narcissi as soon as 
the flowers have faded, and in this | 
way first enfeeble, and finally kill 
the plants. sat 
Nastu’RtT1uM.—-See Trorm‘oLum. 
NAvVELWoRT.—See Cory’LEDON. 
Neck of a plant.—The collar, 
collet, neck, or vital knot, is the | 
point of junction from which spring 
the ascending stem and branches, 
and the descending reots. This 
point has been called the heart cf 
the plant, because any injury done 
to it causes instant death. 
Newo’msium. — Nymphdacee. — 
The Indian Lotus, or Sacred Bean 
of India. A stove aquatic, gener- 
ally with white or pale-pink flowers ; 
rather difficult to flower in this 
country, as it requires great heat, 
and abundance of room; the seeds 
also, which are sent over from In- 
dia, rarely vegetate. The seeds 
should be sown in rich loamy soil, 
m the bottom of a large tub, which 
should be kept full of water while 
the plants are growing, but which 
may be allowed to become dry when 
the flowers have faded. The plants 
are increased by dividing the root, 
or by seeds. There are two West 
NERINE. 
_ers freely in a stove aquarium.—See 
| Ny/MPHTa. 
Nemopa/ntuEes.—Celastrinee, or 
Aquifolidcee.—The new name for 
Tiex canadénsis. 
Nemo’puita. — Hydrophyllacee. 
_—Beautiful little annual plants, na- 
tives of California, that require the 
usual treatment of similar plants — 
See CALIFORNIAN ANNUALS, and AN- 
| nuaLs, p. 116-118. 
| Nere'nruges. — Cytinee. — The 
| Chinese Pitcher-plant. There are 
_ two species in common cultivation, 
one a native of China, and the cther 
,of Ceylon; both of them being 
marsh plants, and requiring the pot 
in which they grow to stand in a 
saucer full of water. N. distilia- 
_iéria grows about eight feet high, 
/and it shows a tendency to curl its 
_tendrils round other plants, or any 
object within its reach, so as to sup- 
port its pitchers, which are at the 
extremity of its tendrils. Both 
_ species should be grown in a peaty 
_soil, and they both require the heat 
_ofastove. Neither the flowers nor 
the fruit have the slightest beauty 
to recommend them. Some new 
Pitcher-plants, which are said to be 
distinct species, have been recently 
introduced. 
Ne'peta.— Labidte. — Catmint. 
Hardy herbaceous plants of no 
beauty, which .grow freely in any 
common soil, 
Ne'rins. — Amarylliddcee. — 
Showy bulbous-rooted plants, the 
iype of which is the Guernsey Lily, 
and which are natives of the Cape 
_of Good Hope, China, and Japan. 
|The Guernsey Lily is a native of 
‘Japan, and the reason why it has 
cbtained its English name is said 
| to be, that a ship laden with ‘these 
Indian Nelumbiums; one of which | buibs and other plants from China 
nus pale blue, and the other palc |} was wrecked on the coast of Guern. 
yellow flowers. It must be observed, | scy ; and that the bulbs being wash- 
that the Nelumbium or Italian Wa- | ed on shore, took root in the sandy 
ter Lily differs essentially from the | soil of the beach, and flourished 
. ‘4 “ gyptian Water Lily, which flow- | there so remarkably as to be suap- 
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