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MOT 



Lysimachia num.- 

 Taverniera num- 



MONEYWORT. 

 Thularia. 

 MONEYWORT. 



mularia. 



MONK'S FLOWER. Monachanthus. 



MONK'S HOOD. Aconihim. 



MONNINA obtusifolia. Green-house 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings or seed. 

 Peat and loam. 



MONOPSIS conspicva. Hardy an- 

 nual. Seeds. Peat and Sand. 



MONOSCHILUS gloxinifolia. Stove 

 tuberous-rooted perennial. Division. 

 Peat and loam. 



MONOTAXIS simplex. Green-house 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings 

 loam. 



MONOTOCA. Four species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. 

 Sandy peat. 



MONSONIA. Four species. Green- 

 house herbaceous perennials. M. ovata, 

 a biennial, is increased by seed ; the 

 others, cuttings or division. Turfy loam 

 and leaf mould. 



MONTEZUMA speciosissima. Stove 

 evergreen tree. Half-ripened cuttings. 

 Loam and peat. 



MOON-SEED. Menispermum. 



MOON- WORT. Botrychium. 



MOR.^A. Twenty species. Green- 

 house bulbous perennials. Division. 

 Sandy Peat. 



MORENOA. Three species. Stove 

 evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Peat and 

 loam. 



MORICANDIA arvcnsis. Hardy bi- 

 ennial. Seed. Common soil. 



MORINA. Two species. Green- 

 house or half-hardy herbaceous peren- 

 nials. Seed. Light rich soil. 



MORINDA. Five species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam and 

 peat. M.jasminoides is a green-house 

 evergeen climber. 



MORISIA hypogcea. Hardy herba- 

 ceous perennial. Seed. Light loam. 



MORISONIA americana. Stove ever- 

 green tree. Ripe cuttings 

 peat. 



MORMODES. Five species, 

 epiphytes. Division. Wood. 



M 6 R N A. Two species. Green- 

 house annuals. Seeds. Sandy peat 

 and leaf mould. 



MORRENL^ odorata. Green-house 

 evergreen twiner. Cuttings. Rich 

 mould. 



MORUS. Mulberry. Nine species, 

 and many varieties. Chiefly hardy de- 



ciduous trees ; a few are stove ever- 

 greens. Layers. A loamy soil and a 

 moist situation. See Mulberry. 



MOSCHARIAp?Mno<//ida. Hardy an- 

 nual. Seeds. Common soil. 

 MOSCHATEL. Adoxa. 

 MOSCHOSMA. Two species. Stove 

 annuals. Seeds. Light rich soil. 



MOSS is useful to the gardener for 

 packing round the roots of plants ; and 

 even some bulbous roots have been cul- 

 tivated in it ; but when it infests the 

 trunks of trees, or our lawns, it is one 

 of the gardener's pests. 



" Moss only attacks lawns, the soil of 

 Peat and ' which is unable to support a greensward 

 of grass. When soil is exhausted, 

 grasses begin to die off, and their place 

 is taken by moss. The obvious mode, 

 then, of proceeding, is to give the lawn 

 a good top-dressing in winter, either of 

 malt-dust, or nitrate of soda, or soot, 

 or any other manure containing an 

 abundance of alkali. The gardener 

 finds the growth of moss arrested by 

 frequent raking in wet weather, or by 

 the application of pounded oyster-shells; 

 but these are mere palliatives, and not 

 remedies. Make your grass healthy, 

 and it will soon smother the moss." — 

 Gard. Chron. 



The most effectual, most salutary, 

 and least disagreeable remedy for moss 

 on trees is of trivial expense, and which 

 a gardener need but try upon one indi- 

 vidual to insure its adoption. It is with 

 a hand scrubbing brush, dipped in a 

 strong brine of common salt, as often 

 as necessary to insure each portion of 

 the bark being moistened with it, to 

 scrub the trunks and branches of his 

 trees at least every second year. It 

 most effectually destroys insects of all 

 kinds, and moss ; and the stimulating 

 influence of the application, and the 

 friction, are productive of the most 

 beneficial effects. The expense is not 

 so much as that of dressing the trunks 

 Loam and j with a solution of lime, which, how- 

 ever efficient in the destruction of moss, 

 is not so in the removal of insects — is 

 highly injurious to the trees, by filling 

 up the respiratory pores of the epider- 

 mis, and is decidedly a promoter of 

 canker. On gravel walks, a strong so- 

 lution of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) 

 has been found the most effectual de- 

 stroyer of moss. 

 MOTH. Verhascum Blattaria. 

 MOTHERWORT. Leonurus. 



Stove 



