NERINE SARNIENSIS. 



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NETTING, WIRE. 



Nepenthes distillatoria> with bright light 

 green leaves, very graceful pitchers, mode- 

 rate sized, of a dark green colour, mottled. 

 Another variety of this species, N. d. rubra, 

 has dark crimson pitchers. N. phyllam- 

 phora is a robust species, producing bright 

 green pitchers in great abundance. N. 

 Rafflesiana, is a fine grower, with pitchers 

 of greenish yellow, marked and mottled 

 with brown. 



Nerine Sarniensis. 



Lily. 



See Guernsey 



(nat. ord. Apocyna'cese). 

 The best known of this class is Nerium 

 oleander^ the Common Oleander, which 



NBMOPHILA MACULATA. 



usually requires a greenhouse in England, 

 but which flowers beautifully out of doors 

 in Southern Europe. There are many 

 varieties, but the best known are confined 

 to two, which bea the one a pink and the 

 other a white flower, slightly double. All 

 the oleanders require a mixture of equal 

 parts of peat, lonm, and sand. They are 

 very subject to brown scale, and the tough 

 lanceolate leaves, which grow in a whorl, 

 three in number, frequently require spong- 

 ing. The blossoms and even the wood of 

 the oleander are poisonous. The plants 

 require plenty of water, which should only 

 be withheld for a short time after they have 

 done flowering. The best way of propa- 



gating the oleander is to place cuttings of 

 well-ripened shoots in bottles of water, 

 hung up where the sun's rays may fall on 

 them. The cuttings throw out roots in the 

 water, and when sufficiently well rooted 

 they must be potted in light soil. 



Nertera {nat. ord. Rubia'cea). 



A genus of very dwarf plants that creep 

 along the surface of the ground and root as 

 they run, having a quantity of small green 

 ovate leaves and tiny greenish flowers, 

 which produce fruit in the form of a small 

 orange-red berry, which has obtained the 

 Nertera depressa (the only species grown 

 in this country) the name of the Bead 

 Plant. Propagated by seeds, or, more 

 surely, by divisions of the root. The plants 

 should be grown in pots, or shallow pans, 

 for which they are well suited, and should 

 be freely watered. 



Netting. 



Netting is extremely useful for many 

 gardening purposes, to protect blossom 

 from frost and fruit from birds. It may 

 also, with very good etfect, be suspended 

 beneath both wall and standard trees to 

 catch any falling fruit. Netting of a fine 

 mesh may be used successfully to keep off 

 the attacks of wasps and flies. Old fish- 

 netting mended up can be purchased at id. 

 per yard. 



Netting, Wire. 



A most useful appliance for garden work 

 is to be found in wire netting, which is 

 machine made and supplied in various sizes 

 of mesh and strength of wire according to 

 the purpose for which it is to be used. The 

 form of mesh is hexagonal in all cases, 

 from the smallest to the largest. The 

 following table gives the prices of this 

 netting per yard in rolls of 50 yards in 

 length, and in various sizes of mesh ; but 

 it must be borne in mind that if a less 



