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ing into house. — I^aiw clean, and dress | advanced to the length of one and a 

 plants before returning to house. — half or two inches), pricking them out 

 Potted Plants, return all into house, e.; in sand, in the open ground, and cover- 

 place hardiest back, and tcnderest in ing them with a hand-glass. If treated 

 front. — Succulent Plants should all be in this manner, the whole of the cut- 

 in, b. — yVater, give over the foliage tings may be expected to root, and be 

 after the plants are in house ; give wa- ready for planting out in a month; 

 ter once or twice weekly. 1 whereas, if deferred until the autumn, 



OCYMUM. Basil. Thirteen species. | when the increase of flower-garden 

 Chiefly hardy annuals, but some are i stock is considered en masse, the pro- 

 stove evergreen shrubs. See Basil. bability is that not one will succeed." 



ODONTARRHENA microphylla. —Card. Chron. 

 Hardy evergreen trailer. Cuttings. Loam j This mode of culture is applicable to 

 and peat. j all the perennial species. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM. Eight species. OFFSETS are side bulbs produced by 

 Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood and gome bulbous roots, and by which the 

 moss. species can be propagated. Whatever 



(ECEOCLADES. Two species. Stove checks the upward growth of the parent 

 epiphytes. Lateral shoots. Wood and plant, as an early breaking down of the 

 moss. j stem, compels the sap to find other or- 



0^ D E R A prolifera. Green-house | gans for its reception, and, consequent- 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy loam ly, promotes the production of offsets, 

 and peat. i '< The practice," says Dr. Lindley, " of 



(ENOTHERA. Evening Primrose, scarring the centre of bulbs, the heads 

 Seventeen species. Hardy annuals, of echino cacti, and such plants, and 

 biennials and perennials, except the the crown of the stem of species like 

 green-house evergreen shrub CE. cheir- Littaa geminiflora, in all which cases 

 anthifolia. Seed; and the perennials suckers are the result, is explicable 



also by division. Common light soil. 



SELECT SHOWY SPECIES. 



Perennials. 

 ffi. Speciosa, white. 

 (E. >Iacrocarpa, yellow. 

 (K. Taraxacifolia, white. 

 (E. Glauca, yellow. 

 (E. Serotina, yellow. 



Annuals. 

 CE. Rubicunda, pink. 

 (E. Lindleyana, purplish-rose. 

 (E. Tenuifolia, purple. 

 (E. Tetraptera, white. 

 (E. Odorata, yellow. 

 CE. Romanzovii, blue. 



upon the foregoing principle." 



OGECHyE LIME. Nyssacandicans. 

 OIL NUT. Hamiltonia. 

 K R A. " The Okra is a native of 

 the West Indies, where it is much used 

 in soups and stews ; its use is rapidly 

 increasing here. There are two vari- 

 eties, the large and the small podded 

 or capsuled. 



" The seeds are planted late in spring, 

 either in rows or hills, three feet apart ; 

 the plant thrives readily, and requires 

 no further care than is requisite to keep 

 it free from weeds." — Rural Reg. 



OLAX. Two species. Stove, ever- 

 green climbers. Cuttings. Loam and 

 (Enothera Drummondii, is a fine large peat, 

 yellow sort, and very ornamental, but OLD-MAN'S-BEARD. Geropogon. 

 it is tender, and requires the same i OLE A. The Olive. Green-house 

 treatment as petunias and verbenas. — and stove evergreen trees, except O. 

 Card. Chron. sativa, which is hardy. Ripe cuttings, 



GJ. serotina, is a beautiful autumn and grafting on the Common Privet 

 flower, and its culture is thus recom- [Ligustrum vulgare). Loam and peat, 

 mended :— " The bed should be looked OLEANDER. Nerium. 

 over every morning, and the flowers of! OLEASTER. Elaagnus. 

 the previous day carried off. This will OLIBANUM. Boswellia. 

 very considerably add to its beauty. OLIVE. Olea. 

 Where a quantity of it is wanted for OLIVE-WOOD. Elaodendron. 

 bedding. May is the fit time to attend OLYNTHIA disticha. Stove ever- 

 to its propagation, by preparing cut- sreen tree. Young cuttings. Sandy 

 tings (as soon as the young wood has | loam and peat. 

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