ANTIRRHINUM. 



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warm dry situation. -Miller raised 

 this plant in rather a curious way in 

 1732, finding its seeds among some 

 Malaga raisins, to which they had 

 adhered. The root was formerly 

 considered a cure for the toothache. 

 The Arabian Chamomile, a pretty 

 low-growing hardy annual, with 

 yellow flovrers, is now called Cladcin- 

 thus ardhicus. 



AxTHocE^KCis. — Sc7'ophiddrince. 

 — A. viscosa is a very handsome 

 greenhouse shrub, with smooth dark- 

 green leaves and large white flowers. 



flowers two years in succession from 

 the same root ; and thus a person 

 who has purchased a plant with 

 beautifully striped flowers, will 

 generally have the mortification, 

 the second year, to find it pro- 

 duce nothing but flowers of the 

 common Snapdragon, unless cut- 

 tings have been made from the 

 young shoots of the plant, and the 

 old root thrown away. As this 

 plant in its -nild state is very com- 

 monly found growing on the tops of 

 fragments of 



old walls, or amou^ 

 which appear in May and June. The ! lime-stone, it maybe considered as 

 flowers have a short tube, within i one of the most ornamental plants for 

 which is a kind of star of green rays, ■ placing in similar situations. Many 

 and a widely- spreading limb, deeply , of the plants formerly called Antir 



cut into five distinct segments. The 

 culture of this plant requires care, 

 as the wood is of a very soft nature, 

 and the plant is easily injured by 

 over- watering ; and when this is the 

 case, the leaves tui-n yellow, and 

 finally drop off. 



Anthy'llis. — Legitniinosce. — 

 Kidney Vetch, — Dwarf plants with 

 pretty flowers ; generally used for 

 rockwork ; which are quite hardy, 

 and will grow in any common soil. 



Axtirrhi'num. — ScropJiuldrincB. 

 — The Snapdragon . — Annual and 

 perennial plants, natives of the 

 middle and south of Europe, and of 

 which one species, A. ma jus, the 

 common Snapdragon, is in almost 

 every garden. There are many 

 varieties of this species, the finest of 

 which, A. m. caryophylloides, has 



rliinum, are now removed to the 

 genus Linaria. 



Aix^TS are very troublesome in hot- 

 houses and greenhouses, and it is 

 very diflicult to get rid of them. As 

 however, it has been found that the 

 liquor discharged by ants is very acid 

 and acrid, the idea presented itself 

 that alkalies would be disagreeable to 

 them ; and experience proves this so 

 far to be the case, that a circle of 

 chalk or lime laid round any plant 

 will effectually prevent the ants from 

 touching it. 



A'PHis. — The green-fly, or plant- 

 louse, is one of the most troublesome 

 insects to the gardener, particularly 

 on Rose-trees. These insects lay 

 their first set of eggs (vv'hich are 

 small and black) in autumn, near 

 the axils of the buds. The eggs are 



the flowers striped like those of a j hatched in February or ]\rarch ; but 

 flaked Carnation. All the species of ; as only a few insects appear, they 



Snapdragon groNv in any soil that is 

 tolerably dry, and they are readily 

 increased by cuttings ; for though 

 they produce abundance of seeds, 

 yet the varieties can only be 

 perpetuated with certainty by the 

 former mode of propagation. The 

 beautiful carnation-like variety will, 



generally escape unnoticed, and, 

 after twice casting their skins, 

 arrive at their full growth in April. 

 From this period to the end of 

 summer, brood after brood is pro- 

 duced with almost inconceivable 

 rapidity ; and as these latter broods 

 of aphides are all born alive, they 



indeed, very seldom produce striped j begin to devour the jilants on which 



