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LAVANDULA. Lavender. Ten spe- ^ green shrub 

 cies. Hardy and half-hardy evergreen I and sand. 

 shrubs. Cuttings. Light gravelly ioam 

 L. Spica. Common Lavender. 



Soil and Situation. — A poor and light 



LAW 



Cuttings. 



Loam, peat 



LAW RELATING TO GARDENS. 

 The following exposition of existing 

 laws in Great Britain may as a matter 



soil is best suited to this plant, being • of curiosity interest the American read 

 in such, more fragrant, longer lived, | ^r. Here where each state has its own 

 and more capable of enduring severe i peculiar enactments, even a synopsis 

 weather. In rich or moist soils it of them would be too voluminous for 

 grows luxuriantly, but is in general '^^'^ pages 



destroyed during the winter 

 situation cantiot be too open 



The 



Landlord and Tenant. — Lord Kenyon 

 was of opinion that market gardeners 



Time and Mode of Planting. — It is j ""d nurserymen may remove the green- 

 propagated by slips and cuttings of the houses and hot-houses which they have 

 current year's shoots, planted in May erected on the land of which tliey are 

 and June, as well as by cuttings of those tenants, even without an agreement; 

 which are a year old '; to be planted in | l^"' this is doubtful; they may, how- 

 March, April, and early Mav. Both i ever, remove trees, or such as are 

 slips and cuttings must be from five to ( I'kely to become so, in the necessary 

 seven inches in length, which, after , '^o^ifse of their trade. If it were other'- 

 being stripped to half their length of ^^ise, the very object of their holding 



the lower leaves, are to be planted to 

 that depth either in a shady border, or 

 in any compartment, to have the shade 

 of a mat during mid-day until they have 

 taken root, in rows six inches apart 

 each way. Water must be given in 

 moderate quantity every evening until 

 thus established. 



Having attained sulTicient strength, 

 they may be moved to their final sta- 

 tions in September or October, which 



would be defeated. {Penton y.Robarl, 

 2 East, 90.) But the outgoing tenant 

 of a garden must not at the end of his 

 term plough up strawberry-beds in full- 

 bearing, which when he entered he 

 bought of a former tenant; although it 

 is the general practice to appraise and 

 pay for these plants as between out- 

 going and incoming tenants. — For such 

 conduct is malicious, and not in the 

 due course of business. (IVetherell y. 



is the season to be preferred, or they ■ Howell, 1 Campbell, 227.) So a tenant 

 maybe left until the succeeding spring, (""t a gardener by trade) must not re- 

 If it is grown in considerable quantity "love a box edging planted on ground 

 for medicinal purposes, which is the rented by him of another. Neither is 

 only claim it has for a place in the I'e entitled, says Mr. Justice Littledale, 

 herbary, it must be planted in rows two (unless by special agreement,) to re- 

 feet apart each way, otherwise only move flowers which he had planted, 

 detached plants are inserted along the {J^'npson v. Soden, 4 Barn, and Adolph. 

 borders. The only after-culture re- Cjj.) And a similar decision has de- 

 quired is the occasional employment of termined that a farmer who raises young 

 the hoe, the decayed spikes and branch- f"""'' trees on the land he hires, tor fill- 

 es being removed in autumn, and the }"S "P "" orchard upon the premises, 



surface gently stirred with the spade in 

 the spring. 



not entitled to sell those young trees ; 

 but it is otherwise of a nurseryman bv 



The flowers are ready for gathering, trade. (IVyndham v. Way, 4 Taunton, 

 either to dry or for distillation, in July 316.) 

 or the end of June 



LAVATER.\. Twenty-five species 



Even if nurserymen are entitled, 

 without a special agreement, to remove 



Some hardv herbaceous," increased l.y the hot-houses they have erected upon 

 seed and division, in common soil ; '''*"[ '='"'' """^'^ '*^'"'' ^f'"^'' '« very 

 and the annuals and biennials may be ^oubtlul, that right does not extend m 



may be 



spring-sown in the same. The green- 

 house and half-hardy are propagated by 

 ripe cuttings in sandy loam. 



LAVENDER. Lavandula. 



LAVENDER COTTON. Santolina. 



every instance to other tenants. Thus, 

 a tenant was adjudged not entitled to 

 remove a conservatory erected by him- 

 self on a brick foundation, attached to 

 a dwelling-house, and communicating 

 with it by windows and a door, and by 



LAVRADIA montana. Stove ever- ; a flue passing into the parlour chimney. 



