MARTAGON LILY. 



MATHIOLA. 



marigolds (Tagetes erecta), the tallest, are 

 also the most striking in large beds, mixed 

 flower and shrubbery borders. The shorter 

 French marigolds (Tagetes patuld), in beds, 

 or used as a foreground to taller plant?, 



MARTAGON LILY. 



are invaluable, while the new brown and 

 new orange miniature French varieties 

 make splendid compact edgings to beds 

 or borders. All sorts are propagated by 

 seeds sown in March and April. 



Mart agon Lily, or Turk's Cap 



Lily (nat. ord. Lilia'ceae). 

 For the culture of lilies of all kinds 

 see Liliums or Lily. This beautiful 

 species of lily is so called from the shape 

 of its flowers, which are pendulous, or 

 hanging in the manner of a bell, the 

 petals being reflexed or turned back- 

 ward and upward until the tips nearly 

 touch the base of the flower. The 

 flower spikes are long, often numbering 

 as many as twenty blossoms of a pur- 

 plish pink in colour spotted with dark! 



Marvel of Peru (not. ord. Nycta- 



gin'ese). 



A genus containing about ten or a dozen 

 species of greenhouse and hardy perennials 

 of which the best known is Mirabilisjalapa, 

 or Common Marvel of Peru, from whose 

 tuberous roots the purgative jalap is pre- 

 pared. The flowers are various in colour, 

 being yellow, crimson, or white, or one or 

 other of these colours striped or spotted with 

 another. It will grow best in a light rich 

 loam, but does well in any good well-drained 

 garden soil. The roots are taken up and 

 stored by nurserymen for sale in spring. It 

 can be grown from seeds sown in gentle 

 heat at the end of March or beginning of 

 April and planted out in May. 



Mathiola (not. ord. Cruci'ferse). 



It is to this genus that all the flowers 

 known as Stocks belong, and for the 

 general culture of these pretty and sweet- 

 scented flowers the reader is referred to 

 Stocks, which see. The genus is mentioned 

 here for the purpose of calling attention to 

 Mathiola odoratissiina, otherwise known as 

 the Night Scented Slock, a small green- 



purple. The leaves grow 

 round the stem. 



in whorls 



Marrows. 



See Gourds, Vegetable 

 Marrows. 



COMMON MARVEL OF 1'EKU. 



house shrub, which is reared in this country 

 as an annual, being raised from seed in 

 gentle heat and planted out in May. It 

 is a very ordinary looking plant, with small, 

 insignificant flowers of a dingy cream 



