31' 



TREE CARKATION. 



popular name of wliich is Go-to-bed- 

 at-noon, from the flovrers closing in 

 the middle of the day, and which 

 lias large yellow flowers, and a very 

 curious feathery head of seeds ; and 

 T. 2>or7'ifdlius, the common Salsafy, 

 which has purple flowers, and the 

 roots of which are occasionally 

 dressed as a vegetable. 



Tragopy^rum. — Pohjgbnece. — 

 Goat's Wheat. - Ornamental shrubby 

 plants, with pink flowers, natives of 

 Europe and America, which should 

 be gro^\^I in very sandy loam, or 

 heath-mould. , * 



Training is an important opera- ; I 

 tion, whether it be applied to nailing j ^ 

 trees against a wall, or to training | 

 herbaceous plants over an iron or i 

 wooden frame-work. Climbing roses I \ 

 may be trained as pyramids, by \ l 

 fixing a pole with three legs, or \ 

 three poles in the ground, and sus- i 

 pending hoops from them, as sho-mi | 

 in fig. 57, and this mode of trainin 



in the earth in the pot, and rest- 

 ing hoops on them, as shown in 

 fig. 5S. 



-MODES OF TRAINIKG K0SE3, &C. 

 TO FORM PYRAMIDS. 



may be applied to various other 

 plants. Plants in pots may be trained 

 by fixing a number of sticks or pins 

 of iron, with hooks attached (a), 



FIG. 58. — MODE OF TRAINING PLANTS 

 IN POTS. 



Tra'pa. — Hydrochariclecs. — 

 Water Caltrops. — Aquatic plants, 

 natives of Europe and the East 

 Indies, with white flowers and very 

 curious nuts, which, when cooked, 

 resemble in taste those of the chest- 

 nut, and are equally wholesome. 

 I The rhizoma should be planted, or 

 the seeds shown, in loamy soil at 

 the bottom of the water in which 

 the plant is to grow. 



Traveller's Jot. — Clematis 

 Vifdlba. 



Tree Carnation. — Didnthus 

 arhbreus is, in its wild state, pro- 

 bably only the common Carnation 

 which has been trained against 

 a wall, and, by being kept con- 

 tinually growing, has been forced 

 to take the character of a tree. It 

 should be planted in calcareous loam, 



