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stronger, as well as furnish a greater is usually cultivated in the kitchen gar- 

 increase of offsets than those planted den ; the first two being employed in 

 later, or not till spring; if, however, salads and for garnishing, and the last 

 some roots are retained out of ground in pickling. 



until February, they will succeed those Soil and Situation. — They flourish in 

 of the autumnal planting in flowering, almost any soil, but are most productive 

 Those in the open borders should be in a light fresh loam. In a strong rich 

 deposited in little patches of about soil, the plants are luxuriant, but afford 

 three or four roots in each, planting fewer berries, and those of inferior fla- 

 them either with a blunt dibble, or with vour. They like an open situation, 

 a garden trowel, four inches deep.] Time and Mode of Sowing. — They 

 When planted in beds by themselves, niay be sown from the beginning of 

 have the beds four feet wide, with al- March to the middle of May; the ear- 

 leys, a foot and a half or two feet wide, lier, however, the better: one sowing 

 between, plant the roots in rows length- jn the kitchen garden, and that a small 

 wise, nine inches asunder, about four one, is quite suflicient for a moderate 

 inches deep, and six distant in each sized family. The seed may be inserted 

 row, covering them regularly with the j,, a drill, two inches deep along its bot- 

 earth, and rake the surface smoothly, torn, in a single row, with a space of 

 Having planted the roots in either of . two or three inches between every two, 

 these methods, all the culture they re- or they may be dibbled in at a similar 

 (juire is to be kept clean from weeds ; j distance and depth. The minor is like- 

 and they will all flower in the following I wise often sown in patches. The ma- 

 spring ai.d summer. I jor should be inserted beneath a vacant 

 Water Culture. — The Polyanthus, , paling, wall, or hedge, to which its 

 Narcissus, and the large Jonquils, are stems may be trained, or in an open 

 bloomed in glasses of water in rooms, compartment, with sticks inserted on 

 in winter and early in spring; any of each side. The runners at first require 

 the other species may also be flowered | a little attention to enable them to 

 in the same manner; observing to pro- din^j,^ but they soon are capable of 

 cure such roots as were lifted at the doing so unassisted. The minor may 

 season above mentioned. The season either trail along the ground, or be sup- 

 for placing in water is any time in win- | ported with short sticks. If water is 

 ter or early spring, from October till i not afforded during dry weather, they 

 March, observing to fill the glasses „i|i pot shoot so vigorously, or be so 

 with fresh soft water, so full that the productive. They flower from June 

 bottom of the bulb may just touch it. j umil the close of October. The berries 

 See Hyacinth. for pickling must be gathered when of 

 Pot Vulture. — The same plants may I f„i| gi^g^ and whilst green and fleshy, 

 be brought to early bloom in pots ; during August. 



plant the bulbs in pots of light rich fg obtain Seed. — For the production 

 earth during August, and place in a of seed, some plants should be left 

 warm room; they will bloom about unn-athered from, as the first produced 

 November. — Abercrombie. I are not only the finest in general, but 



N.\RCISSl)S-FLY. See Mi?«rodo/i. are often the only ones that ripen. 

 NASTURTIUM. By this name are They should be gathered as they ripen, 

 commonly known two species of Tro- which they do from the close of Au- 

 pcEolum. T. mnjus is a hardy annual g|,st even to the beginning of October, 

 twiner, and there are several varieties, xhey must on no account be stored 

 distinguished by their double or crim- I „ntil perfectly dry and hard. The finest 

 son flowers, t. minus is a hardy an- and soundest seed of the previous year's 

 nual trailer, and a variety with double production should alone be sown ; if it 

 flowers, is a green-house evergreen. jg older the plants are seldom vigorous. 

 Although strictly annual when grown] NAUtLEA. Five species. Stove 

 in the open ground in this country, yet ^.^ ^pg„ ^,3^8. Layers and cuttings, 

 they are naturallv perennial, as may be „. ,*', ■' 



•^ , . ,. . 1 ' ivicn loam. 



Droved it thev are grown in a green- _ „ . , , 



house. The Major Nasturtium being ' NAVELWORT. Cotyledon. 

 the most productive, as well of flowers j NEAPOLITAN VIOLET. Viola ado- 

 and leaves as of berries, is the one that | rata pallida plena. See Violet. 



