BOX, PROPAGATING. 



BRACHYCOME. 



it as it is, or to clip the sides and lop in a 

 formal manner, so that the edging looks 

 like a broad mass of greenery, supported 

 on a closely serried line of brown sticks 

 and twigs utterly devoid of leafage. 



Box, Propagating. 



For propagating boxes, any of the boxes, 

 large or small, in which articles of various 

 descriptions, such as cocoa, starch, mus- 

 tard, tinned salmon and lobster, Swiss 

 milk, &c., are sent in bulk to grocers, may 

 be easily adapted to suit the purpose in 

 view, and they can be easily cut so that the 

 top may slant in one direction, as in the 

 accompanying illustration, or both ways, 

 like the roof of a house, ledges being 

 nailed externally to sides and bottom to 

 form a rebate to receive the glass. If the 

 box be deep enough, triangular pieces must 



PROPAGATING BOX. 



be cut off each side and the front reduced 

 in order to give the proper inclination to 

 the glass, but if the box be shallow tri- 

 angular pieces may be added to the sides, 

 and the back raised as shown by the dotted 

 lines in the illustration. Seed pans may be 

 formed out of the bottoms of butter tubs 

 and mustard tubs, both of which may be 

 bought for a few pence of any grocer. And 

 these tubs, when of sufficient size, answer 

 ever)' practical purpose for forcing rhubarb. 



while half-tubs will be large enough fcr 

 sea kale. 



Boxes, Tubs, &c. 



For growing large plants and shrubs that 

 cannot conveniently be grown even in pots 

 of the largest size, tubs and boxes must be 

 used. Sometimes the larger butter tubs 

 from the grocer will be found sufficient as far 

 as size goes, but it is desirable to have them 

 girt with iron hoops, as the wooden hoops 

 frequently give in a short time by the swel- 

 ling of the wood of the tub by the moisture 

 absorbed from the soil within when the 

 plant is watered. Strong tubs, such as 

 halves of wine casks, &c., may be obtained 

 of the cooper. Boxes of any kind and 

 size may be made by the gardener if he can 

 turn his hand to the execution of a little 

 simple carpentry. It is not possible, how- 

 ever, to dwell at any length on the con- 

 struction of such appliances here, though 

 it is necessary to call attention to them as 

 being among the numerous appliances of 

 various kinds that are used in gardening, 

 and may be required at some time or other 

 by every gardener. 



Braehy'come (not. ord. Composite). 



Beautiful free-flowering, dwarf-growing, 



half-hardy annuals, covered during the 



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reater portion of the summer with a pro- 

 fusion of pretty cineraria-like flowers, very 



