474 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



at Christiania. Attains a height of 30 feet in Algeria, according 

 to Cosson. Adapts itself in the most extraordinary manner to the 

 most different localities. It will grow alike in water and the driest 

 soil, also in salty ground, and is one of the most grateful and tract- 

 able plants in culture ; it is readily multiplied from cuttings, which 

 strike root as easily as a willow, and push forth stems with unusual 

 vigor. Hence it is one of the most eligible bushes for planting on 

 coast- sand, to stay its movements, or for lining embankments. 

 Furnishes material for a superior charcoal [W. H. Colvill] and 

 various implements [Brandis]. Yields in its native countries a 

 kind of manna and of gall. According to Dr. Aitchison much em- 

 ployed for all sorts of basket- and wattle- work in Afghanistan. 

 The red bark of the branches renders handles from them very 

 pretty, which can be said also of T. macrocarpa (Bunge). Planted 

 much in cemeteries. The period of flowering can be altered by the 

 extent and time of pruning. In Australia first largely sent out by 

 the writer. 



Tamarix Germanica, Linne. 



Europe and Western Asia, extending to about 15,000 feet into 

 the Himalayas; hardy in Norway to lat. 70 20' [Schuebeler]. 

 Likewise available for arresting the ingress of shifting sand, parti- 

 cularly in moist places, also for solidifying precipitous river-banks. 

 The allied T. elegans (Myricaria elegans, Royle) attains a height 

 of 20 feet. 



Tamarix orientalis, Forskael. (T. articulata, Vahl). 



Northern and Middle Africa, Southern Asia. A fast-growing 

 tree, attaining a height of 60 feet, the trunk occasionally enlarging 

 to a circumference of 12 feet. Springs up readily from seeds, and 

 is also easily propagated from cuttings. Coppices well. The wood 

 serves for ploughs, wheels and many implements [Stewart and 

 Brandis]. With T. Grallica it grows with sufficient rapidity, to be 

 reared in India for fuel. Dye-galls and a kind of manna are also 

 produced by this tree. The same or an allied species extends to 

 Japan. 



Tamarix tetragryna, Ehrenberg. 



From Egypt to Afghanistan. This is prominently fit for saline 

 soil, so much so as to be turned to use for Barilla. Most kinds of 

 pasture-animals like to browse on these sorts of plants, but should 

 not have them as exclusive feed [AitchisonJ. 



Tanacetum vulg-are, Linne. (Pyrethrum vulgare, Boissier.) 



The Tansy. Northern and Middle Europe, Northern Asia, North- 

 Western America. A perennial herb of well-known medicinal 

 value, which mainly depends on its volatile oil. One of over 100 

 kinds of plants, ordered to be grown in the gardens of Charles the 

 Great already. 



