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HERON'S-BILL. Erodium. 



HERPESTIS. Three species. Aqua- 

 tic perennials, stove or hard}'. Seed 

 or division. Rich light soil. 



HERRERIA. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen twiners. Division. Loan) 

 and peat. 



HESPERANTHA. Six species. 

 Green-house bulbs. Offsets. Sand, 

 Loam, and peat. 



HESPERIS. Rocket. Fifteen spe- 

 cies, besides varieties. Hardy herba- 

 ceous and annual. Division or seed. 

 Rich light soil. 



HESPEROSCORDUM. Two species. 

 Hardy bulbs. Offsets. Sandy soil. 



HETERANTHERA. Three species. 

 Aquatics, stove, green-house, and har- 

 dy. Division. Sandy soil, in water. 



HETEROPTERIS. Eight species. 

 Chiefly stove evergreen climbers. Cut- 

 tings. Sand, peat, and loam. 



HEUCHERA. Nine species. Hardy 

 herbaceous. Division. Light soil. 



HIBBERTIA. Ten species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs and twiners. 

 Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat. 



HIBISCUS. Sixty-nine species, be- 

 sides varieties. Some annual and bien- 

 nial, but chiefly perennials, both hardy 

 and tender. Mr. Paxton says, " the 



HOE. This is the implement which 

 should be most frequently in the gar- 

 dener's hand, for the surface of the soil 

 can never be too frequently stirred. I 

 entirely agree with Mr. Barnes in think- 

 ing the hoe one of the gardener's best 

 friends ; and, as it always must be a 

 more frequently used implement than 

 any other, what is the best form of its 

 construction deserves some considera- 

 tion. The handles should never be 

 made of heavy wood, for this wearies 

 the hand, and is altogether a uselessly 

 heavy weight thrown upon the work- 

 man. It is merely the lever, and every 

 ounce needlessly given to this, dimin- 

 ishes, without any necessity, the availa- 

 ble moving power. The best woods 

 for handles are birch or deal. 



For earthing up plants, broad blades 

 to hoes are very admissible, and they 

 may, without objection, have a breadth 

 of nine inches; but this permission of 

 breadth does not extend to hoes re- 

 quired for loosening the soil and de- 

 stroying weeds. These should never 

 extend to beyond a breadth of six inch- 

 es, and the work will be done best by 

 one two inches narrower. The iron 

 plate of which they are formed should 

 be well steeled, and not more than one- 



shrubby stove and green-house kinds sixteenth of an inch thick. The weight 



all grow from cuttings, and thrive in 

 loam and peat. //. syriacus, from lay- 

 ers or seed, in common soil. The 

 hardy herbaceous kinds require a moist 

 soil." — Bot. Diet. 



HIDE-BOUND. See Bark-hound. 



HIERACIUM. One hundred and 

 nineteen species. Chiefly hardy herba- 

 ceous. H. glutinosum is an annual. 

 Seed in the open soil. The others by 

 division in light soil. 



HILLIA. Two species. Stove ever- 

 green shrubs. Cuttings. Turfy loam 

 and sand. 



HIPPEASTRUM. Two species. 

 Stove bulbs. Offsets. Turfy loam and 

 peat. 



HIPPION. Three species. Green- 

 house biennials. Seed. Light rich soil. 



HIPPOCREPIS. Nine species. Har- 

 dy perennial trailers and annuals. Cut- 

 tings or seed. Sandy loam and peat. 



HIPPOPHAE. Four species. Har- 

 dy trees. Layers or cuttings. Common 

 soil. 



HIRjEA. Four species. Stove ever- 

 green climbers. Cuttings. Sandy loam 

 and peat. 



necessary should be thrown by the 

 workman's arm and body upon the 

 handle, and the thicker the blade, the 

 greater is the pressure required to make 

 it penetrate the soil. It should be set 

 on the handle at an angle of 68^, as 

 this brings its edge when used at a good 

 cutting angle with the surface of the 

 soil, and the workman soon learns at 

 what point most effectively to throw 

 his weight, and holds the handle fur- 

 ther from, or nearer to the blade, ac- 

 cordingly as he is a tall or short man. 

 Mr. Barnes, of Bicton Gardens, whose 

 opinions relative to hoeing I have al- 

 ready quoted, has paid considerable 

 attention to the formation of this im- 

 plement, and has favoured me with a 

 letter upon the subject, from which I 

 will now give some extracts. 



He employs nine sized hoes, the 

 smallest having a blade not more than 

 one-fourth of an inch broad, and the 

 largest ten inches. The smallest are 

 used for potted plants and seed-beds, 

 and those from two inches and a half 

 to four inches wide are used for thin- 

 ning and hoeing among crops generally. 



