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light rich mould, in which plant the i walls, the mortar is not so much dis- 

 slips or cuttings — many in each pot or turbcd if the nails are driven in a little 

 pail if" required, putting them in within further before they are extracted. Old 

 ' ' 11 „.jj|g ^,,Y ijg renovated by being heated 



to redness, and then thrown into water: 

 this removes from them the mortar; 

 and then they may be again heated and 

 put into oil as before directed. The 

 cast iron nails used by gardeners are 

 known to the ironmonger as wall nails, 

 and are described as 2^, 3, 4, and 5 11>. 

 wall nails, accordingly as 1,000 of 



an inch of their tops, and about an inch 

 or two asunder. Give directly some 

 water, to settle the earth closely about 

 each plant; then, either plunge the 

 pots, &c., in a shallow garden-frame, 

 and put on the glasses, or cover each 

 pot or pan close with a low hand-glass, 

 which is the most eligible for facilitating 

 tiieir rooting. In either method, how- 



ever, observe to plunge the pots in the them are of those weights 



earth or hot-bed. 



Nails in most cases require to be 



Afford them occasional shade from driven only a very little way into the 

 the mid-day sun, and give plenty of mortar, and walls then do not become 

 water three or four times a week at defaced by them for many years. In 

 least, or oftener in very hot weather ; all summer nailing of peach trees, 

 thus they will be rooted in a month or roses, &c., the point only requires to 

 six weeks. Let them remain in the be driven in, so that the nail may be 

 open air until October, then remove easily withdrawn by the fingers. If 

 them into the green-house for the these precautions are attended to, and 

 winter; and in spring the forwardest in the nails are not driven into the face of 

 growth may be potted olf separately in the bricks, but between the mortar 

 small pots ; but if rather small and joints, a good wall will last for half a 

 weak, or but indifferently rooted, let i century without requiring fresh pointing, 

 them have another summer's growth, and by nails the branches of a tree can 

 and pot them out separately in Sep- , always be better placed than by loops 



or similar contrivance." 

 NANUIN.\ domestica. 



teinber or spring following, managing 



them as other green-house shrubs of 



similar temperature, and shifting them evergreen shrub. Ripe cuttings 



into larger pots annually, or according and peat 



as they shall require. 



By Layers. — Such plants as are fur- 

 nished with young bottom branches or 

 shoots, situated low enough for laying, 

 may be layered in spring in the usual 

 way; every shoot will readily emit 



roots, and be fit to transplant into all hardy bulbs, including the 

 separate pots in autumn. ' (N. Pseudo-Narcissus); Two- 



Gard. Chron. 



Green-house 



Loaiu 



NAPOLEON-S WEEPING 

 LOW. Salix Napoleana. 



NARAVELIA zeylanica. 

 evergreen climber. Young 

 Sandy loam and peat. 



NARCISSUS. Eighty-five 



W^IL- 



Stove 

 cuttings. 



species ; 

 DafTodil 

 coloured 



By Seed. — These may be sowed in (iV.6/co/or) ; White, or Poet's Narcissus 

 spring, in pots of light mould, and (iV. poeticus); Hoop-petticoat Narcis- 

 plungcd in a moderate hot-bed. The sus (N. bulbocodiwii); Small autumn 

 plants will soon come up, which, when i Narcissus (N. .terotiims) ; Polyanthus 



■" ^iucissus {N. tazelta); Jonqm] (N.jon- 



quilla) ; and Paper Narcissus (lY. papy- 

 raceus); with varieties of each. 



Characteristics of Excellence. — Mr. 

 Glenny says — '■ that in the Narcissi the 

 flowers should be circular and large, 



two or three inches high, pot off sepa- 

 rately in small pots: manage them as 

 the others. — Abercrombie. 



With respect to the general culture, 

 see Green-house Plants. 



NAILS for training wall trees are 



best made of cast iron, being the they should expand flat, and the cup 

 cheapest, stoutest, and most enduring, which is in the centre should stand out 

 Before using they should be heated well. The petals should be thick, 

 almost to redness, and then be thrown smooth, firm, free from notch or rough- 

 into cold linseed oil. When dry, they ness on the edges, and have no points, 

 have a varnish upon them which pre- The bunch of flowers should not con- 

 serves them from rusting, and prevents sist of less than seven; the footstalks 

 the mortar of the wall sticking to them should be of such length as to allow 

 BO corrosively as it does if they are the flowers to touch each other at the 

 unoiled. lu drawing old uails' from i edge, and present an even, though 



