NICOTIANA. 



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NORTH BORDERS. 



quantity than 50 yards is required, the 

 price per yard is increased one halfpenny. 

 So this must be taken into account when 

 buying or ordering. 



The first use of this netting is as a protec- 

 tion to flower beds, seed beds, &c., from 



TYPE OF NICOTIANA. 



the inroads of cats, c., or for light fencing 

 for separating one part of a garden from 

 another. When used in this way, iron 

 stakes or standards are necessary as sup- 

 ports, unless wooden stakes be used, along 

 which the wire may be stretched by the 

 aid of tenter hooks or small staples. 



Nicotiana (nat. ord. Solana'ceae). 



A genus of plants under which are placed 

 all species of tobacco plants. The sort 

 grown in our gardens and greenhouses is 



Nicotiana affinis, a plant with blossoms 

 tubular in shape and terminating in five 

 pointed segments turning outwards from 

 the tube. The blossoms are of a greenish 

 hue on the exterior, and exhale a delicious 

 odour in the evening. The plants are 

 raised from seeds sown in gentle heat early 

 in the year, say in February, and may be 

 placed out in the open ground in June, or 

 potted for the decoration and perfume of 

 the greenhouse or conservatory. Although 

 treated as annuals, they are perennials ; and 

 after they are cut off by the first frost, if 

 the roots remaining in the ground are pro- 

 tected by a covering of ashes, they will 

 come up again year after year. There 

 could not be a better plant for the adorn- 

 ment of the conservatory. 



Noisette Roses. See Roses, Noisette. 



North Borders. 



A border fronting north in a garden is 

 generally much undervalued. In the 

 flower garden a wall facing north, if it 

 happens to exist, is frequently looked upon 

 as a nuisance, and covered with ivy ; in 

 the kitchen garden it is only more profit- 

 ably occupied by Morello cherries and red 

 currants, while, in both cases, the border 

 is kept as shallow as possible, and turned 

 to little or no account. Many plants and 

 shrubs, however, will flourish upon a north 

 border and against a north wall, and show 

 themselves hardy there, which in any 

 other situation would not outlive a winter's 

 frost. In the flower garden let the north 

 wall have a good deep border of bog, and 

 against the wall all the hardy sorts of 

 camellias will flourish and blossom freely. 

 The green and the black tea-plant also, not 

 having their bark exposed to the scorching 

 sun of summer, will survive our severest 

 winters in such a situation. Rhododen- 

 drons will also do veil, and so will chry- 

 santhemums. 



