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one bushel of salt with every two bush- 

 els ot'lime. 



Lime cannot be applied to the soil 

 too fresh from the kiln; for if allowed 

 to absorb carbonic acid from the air, it 

 is rapidly converted into chalk. 



" It is astonishing how ignorantly 

 neglectful are the cultivators of the 

 soil, when their crops are devastated 

 by the slug, not to dress them so as to 

 render the surface of the soil quite 

 white, during the promise of a few 

 days' dry weather, with caustic lime. 

 It is instant destruction to every slug 

 it falls upon; and those that it misses 

 are destroyed by their coming in con- 

 tact with it when moving in search of 

 food. 



" It is a common practice to burn 

 couch-grass, docks, gorse, and other 

 vegetables, which are very retentive 

 of life, or slow in decay; a more une- 

 conomical, unscientific method of re- 

 ducins to a state beneficial to the land 



mode of proceeding is to take forty 

 gallons of clean water, and, half an 

 hour before using, put one peck of 

 fresh-slacked lime into it. As soon as 

 it is clear it is fit for use. 



" A watering-pot containing four gal- 

 lons will water a bed of four feet by 

 thirty feet, or rows of cauliflowers, 

 cabbages, &c., of double the length." 

 — Gard. Chron. 



LIMNANTHES Douglasii. Hardy 

 annual trailer. Seed. Sandy loam and 

 shady situation. 



LIMNOCHARIS. Two species. 

 Stove perennial aquatics. Seed and 

 runners. Water. 



LIMONIA. Five species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs, except L. scan- 

 dens, which is a climber. Cuttings. 

 Rich light loam and peat. 



LINANTHUS dichotonus. Hardy 

 annual. Seed. Common soil. 



LINARIA. Seventy-five species. 

 Hardv annual trailers, and herbaceous 



of which they were the refuse, cannot j and evergreen shrubs, except L. fruc- 



be devised. In breaking up heaths, 

 such exuva; are very abundant; but, in 

 all cases, if the weeds, leaves, &c., 

 were conveyed to a hole or pit, and, 

 with every single horse-load, and with 

 barrow-loads in proportion, a bushel of 

 salt and a half bushel of lime were in- 

 corporated, it would in a few months 

 form a mass of decayed compost of the 

 most lertilizing quality; the lime re- 

 taining many of the gases evolved dur- 



ticans, and L. scoparia, which are 

 green-house evergreen shrubs. Seed 

 or cuttings. Sandy loam. 



LINCONIA. Three species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Young cut- 

 tings. Sandy peat. 



LINDERNIA pyxidaria. Hardy an- 

 nual. Seed. Common soil. 



LINDLEYA mespiloides . Half-har- 

 dy evergreen shrub. Cuttings, and 

 grafts on the common thorn and larger 



ing the putrefaction of the vegetable cotoneasters. Sandy loam, mixed with 



matter, and the salt combining with | calcareous rubbish. 



the lime to destroy noxious animals, j LINDS^l^^A. Five species. Stove 



which might form a nidus in the mass. ! and green-house ferns. Division and 



By this plan nearly all the carbona- I seed. Sandy loam and peat. 



ceous matters of the refuse vegetables | LINN.^A borealis. Hardy evergreen 



are retained ; by burning, nearly all of j trailer. Division. Shaded peat soil. 



LINUM. Fifty-one species. Chiefly 

 hardy herbaceous and annuals; a few 



them are dissipated." — Principles of 

 Gardening 



Lime rubbish is the old mortar and green-house evergreen shrubs. Seed, 

 plaster obtained when brick buildings division, and cuttings. Sandy loam 

 are pulled down. It is an excellent ' and a little peat 



manure, abounding with the salts of 

 potash and lime. It should be reduced 

 to powder before spreading and digging 

 in. 



LIME, or LINDEN-TREE. Tilia. 



LIME-WATER. "As water can 

 hold only a certain quantity of lime in 

 solution, it is immaterial how much of 

 that substance you mix with it. The 

 mixture should be well stirred, and 

 should be left until it has become clear, 

 when it will be fit for use. The best 

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LION'S-EAR. Leonatis. 



LION'S-FOOT. Leontopodium. 



LION'S-TAIL. Leonotis leonurus. 



LIPARIA spharica. Green-house 

 evergreen shrub. Young cuttings. 

 Sandy loam and peat. Not too much 

 water. 



LIPARIS. Fifteen species. Stove 

 epiphytes and orchids. All propagated 

 by offsets. Epiphytes in peat and pot- 

 sherds ; terrestrial orchids in sandy peat 

 and sandy loam. 



