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WALDSTEINIA geoides. Hardy 

 herbaceous perennial. Division or 

 seeds. Common soil. 



WALKERA. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Sandy 

 loam and peat. 



WALKS. See Gravel. It may be 



will bloom in the spring, and the best 

 may be then selected. Watering in 

 very dry weather, lengthens the dura- 

 tion of their bloom. Saltpetre one 

 ounce to the gallon, given once in ten 

 days, heightens their colour and vigour. 

 Cuttinsrs. — The double varieties are 



observed here, that of whatever material I thus propagated. When the old plants 

 a walk is composed, that it is essential ! are done blooming, cut off their heads ; 

 to have it well under-drained, and for ! water them freely, and they will pro- 

 this purpose an understratum offlints or i duce shoots along with their entire stem; 

 brick-bats, twelve inches deep, is not these when from four to six inches long, 

 too much. Walks so founded, are never must be cut off close to the stem, and 

 vet or soft. Coal ashes, or which is be planted in a light rich shady border, 

 still better, fresh tan, makes a pleasant under a hand-glass; watering occasion- 

 winter walk, particularly on tenacious ally until rooted. 



Soil. — A light rich loam, mixed with 

 See 



WALLICHIA. Two species. Stove 

 Strong rich soil and a 



soils, as it never adheres to the shoes 



eitlier during rain or after frost; half! a little lime rubbish, suits it best. 



an inch I think is sufficient. It likewise Stock 



makes a soft and pleasant summer walk 



and from its loose nature, is readily palms. Seeds 



cleared from weeds. If not wanted i strong heat. 



during summer, it may readily be swept ; WALLS are usually built in panels, 



clean otT after a few dry days. It is in- I from fifteen to thirty feet in length, one 



valuable for covering walks or footpaths j brick thick, with pillars for the sake of 



in the kitchen garden, when there is adding to their strength, at these speci- 



much wheeling of manure or soil, to be fied distances; the foundation a brick 



done during frost, which is too often and a half thick. The plan of jNIr. Sil- 



obliged to be suspended at\er ten or|verlock, of Chichester, is worthy of 



eleven o'clock, when there is clear sun- ; adoption, since if well constructed, it is 



shine, from the ground getting soft and ] equally durable, and saves one-third of 



clammy. With a covering of tan, the | the expense. Walls so constructed are 



operation may be continued throughout 

 the day, and even during wet weather. 

 If the tan remain permanently, it will 

 require renewing every two years. — 

 Card. Chron. 



WALL CRESS. Ardbis. 



WALL-FLOWER or STOCK-GIL- 

 LIFLOWER. Cheiranthus. 



C. arboreits. Shrubby W. F. Yel- 

 low. June. 



C. cheiri. Common W. F. Yellow, 

 crimson, brown. June. 



C.firmus. Permanent W, F. Yellow. 

 July. 



C. Unifolius. Flax-leaved W. F. Pur- 

 ple. July. 



C. scopariiis 

 purple. June. 



C. semper flor ens. 

 F. White. July. 



stated to become dry after rain, much 

 more rapidly than a solid wall of the 

 same or any other thickness, and there 

 appears not a shadow of a reason why 

 it should not ripen fruit equally well. 



He forms the wall hollow, nine inches 

 in breadth, by placing the bricks edge- 

 wise so as to form two facings, they are 

 laid in good mortar, and the joints care- 

 fully finished. They are placed alter- 

 nately with their fices and ends to the 

 outsides, so that every second brick is 

 a tie, and in each succeeding course, a 

 brick with its end outwards is placed 

 on the centre of one laid lengthwise on 

 either side. The top of the wall must 

 be covered with a coping of stone or 

 bricks, projecting two inches. It is 

 strengthened at every twenty feet, by 

 piers of fourteen inch-work, built in the 

 Besides these species and varieties, same manner, with bricks laid on edge, 

 there are many German Wall-flowers \ The mode of constructing the piers, 

 imported, mostly semi-double, and well obviating the disadvantages arising from 

 ■worthy of culture for their peculiar CO- j training branches round their sharp 

 lours and habits. i angles, which often causes them to 



Sowing is best done in June, the gum, recommended by the Rev. T.Cul- 

 seedlings to be transplanted into nur- i luni, of Bury St. Edmonds, is to have 

 sery beds when three inches high. They their corners bevelled. He also advises 



White, yellow, and 

 Everblooming W. 



