NAPOLEONA. 



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NASTURTIUM. 



which appear in June and July. 

 M. Pimenta, now 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 conservative wall, in dry 

 soil, in most parts of England, and 

 also in Scotland, more particularly 

 in low situations, near the sea. 

 At Nettlecombe, in Somersetshire, 

 there are large trees covered with 



j jflowers. In most parts of Ireland 



j it is as hardy as the common Lau- 

 rustinus is in the climate of London. 



! Garden hedges are made of it at 



• Belfast, and also at Cork. 



■ TRAILING half hardy shrubs 

 -'■* against a wall is an operation 

 j that should be performed with great 

 care ; and as the sole object of 

 j growing the shrubs is on account of 

 j their being ornamental, nothing 

 I should be shown which tends in the 

 I slightest degree to injure this effect. 

 ! For this reason the nails should be 

 I small and round headed, and strips 

 ] of leather or blacij. tape are prefer- 

 able 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 should 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 to train the trunk and main 

 branches. 



NapoleoVa. — Behisiacece. — 

 N. impericiHs is a very singular 

 plant, with flowers which, when 

 fresh, are apricot-coloured and 

 crimson, but which, when dying, 

 assume a bluish tint. The whole 

 appearance of the genus is so remark- 



able as to render it necessary to 

 constitute a new order for it between 

 Cucurbitdcece and Passifiordcece. 

 N. imperidlis was first brought to 

 England in 1848. 



Napoleon's Weeping Willow. 

 — This Willow differs from the 

 common kind in several respects, 

 and it is probably the male variety 

 of Sa.lix babylonica, of which only 

 the female was formerly known in 

 England. It is of much slower 

 growth than the common kind, and 

 therefore much better adapted for 

 planting in a shrubbery. 



Narci'ssus. — AmarijUidacece. — 

 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 Daffodils, 

 besides numerous others. The late 

 Mr. Haworth paid great attention 

 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 Narcissus is 

 now divided. All the Narcissi are 

 quite hardy, and will grow in any 

 common garden soil ; and they are 

 all increased by offsets. They may 

 be left in the ground several years 

 without sustaining 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 ne- 

 cessary to attend to this, as many 

 gardeners, from a mistaken 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. 



Nasturtium. — See Trop^'olum. 



