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perhaps, to hundreds), the mode by | 

 a stick, vhite lead, and a black-lead j 

 pencil, is perhaps the best for private I 

 gardens ; and it is, undoubtedly, by j 

 far the cheapest. In numbering or j 

 naming plants in a garden, where | 

 good taste ought to preside, it must 

 always be recollected that the means 

 ought to be kept subordinate to the 

 end, and that the names of plants 

 should in no private garden be more 

 conspicuous than the plants them- 

 selves. 



Tallow Tree. — StiUlngia seh- 

 ifera. — A stove plant, which should 

 be grown in peat and loam. It be- 

 longs to Euijhorbiace^. 



Tamari>'D Tree. — See Tama- 

 ri'kdus. 



TAMARI'^'Dus. — Leguminosce. — 

 The Tamarind Tree. — There are two 

 kinds of Tamarinds ; T. indica, a 

 native of the East Indies, with yellow 

 flowers striped with red, and T. occl- 

 denta lis, a native of the West Indies, 

 the flowers of which are white. Both 

 kinds, however, very rarely flower in 

 this country, probably because the 

 trees have not sufiicient room for 

 their roots. The plants may be raised 

 from seeds of preserved Tamarinds 

 sown in a hotbed ; and they are worth 

 growing for their handsome foliage. 

 They require a strong heat and a rich 

 soil, and they should be supplied with 

 plenty of water. The soil should be 

 composed of equal parts of fresh turfy 

 loam and vegetable mould or rotten 

 dung, with a little sand or peat, and 

 these ingredients should be well 

 mixed together before the compost 

 is used. Young plants may also be 

 raised from cuttings, which strike 

 fi'eely in sand with the help of 

 bottom-heat. 



Ta'makix. — Tamaiiscmece. — 

 The Tamarisk. — Tall shrubs, mostly 

 natives of Europe, which are sub- 

 evergreen, and useful in withstanding 

 the sea-breeze. A great many species 



are enumerated in books ; but only 

 two are common in British gardens. 

 These are Tdmarix gdllica, the 

 French Tamarisk ; and T. germdnica 

 L. [Myricaria germdnica Desv.), 

 the German Tamarisk. The French 

 Tamarisk is by far the handsomest, 

 and as it will thrive close to the 

 sea-shore, and produces its long ter- 

 minal spikes of pinkish flowers in 

 autumn, when people generally visit 

 the coast, it is a most valuable shrub 

 for the gardens of marine towns. It 

 should be grown in a deep sandy 

 soil, and it is propagated by cuttings 

 taken off in autumn. 



Ta'mus. — Dioscoriacecc, or Td- 

 mece. — The Black Bryony. — See 

 BRTOJfT. — The Black Bryony belongs 

 to the same natural order as the 

 Yam. For the Elephant' s-foot, which •. 

 was formerly considered to belong to 

 the genus Tamus, see Testudika^- 



RIA. 



Tan. — The bark of oak or of 

 other trees, after it has been used by 

 tanners. TVhen it is received by 

 gardeners from the tan-pits, it is gene- 

 rally wet and without heat ; but after 

 it has been laid in a ridge in an open 

 shed for two or three weeks, and 

 turned over two or three times, it 

 becomes drier and begins to ferment, 

 when heat is evolved in a greater or 

 less degree according to the size of 

 the mass. In this state it is fit to be 

 introduced into pits or beds in hot- 

 houses for the purpose of supplj-ing 

 bottom-heat. For ordinary purposes 

 the bed or layer of tan need not be 

 thicker than eighteen inches or two 

 feet, but when a very powerful heat 

 is required, double that thickness is 

 desirable. The pots in which the 

 plants are contained, when large, 

 should at first not be plunged more 

 than half their depth in the tan ; or, 

 even, in some cases, they should be 

 set on its surface. But after the first 

 violent heat has subsided, they may 



