N£BIUH (ancient name for Oleander, supposed to 

 be from Greek neros, "moist;" alluding to the places in 

 which it grows wild). ApocynAcece. The Oleander is 

 an old-fashioned evergreen shrub known to everybody, 

 and cultivated everywhere in " . — 



Bermudas, especially, are fa 

 hedges. In the North tin I'lI. :in.l. r i- :i .'(immon house 

 plant, being grown in till - i ih-.'oration, and 



ranking in popularity alt' r ainl hydrangea. 



It attains 7-15 ft., and 1.1. i-t, I- m -um,im.i. the fls. being 

 salver-shaped, o-lobed whtii .-,iii^ic. ll^-,' in. across, and 

 commonly pink or white, though the colors range from 

 white through creamy white, blush, rose and copper 

 _! j^jjij ^g^j.]j purple, with variegated 



color, 

 forms. 



The genus cont; 

 glabrous shrubs: I 

 row, leathery, trat 

 minal cymes; (•al\ 

 base; corolla-tube 



2 i.r 3 species. They are 

 "I I^ <if 3, rarely 4 or 2, nar- 

 r. ather-veined: fls. in ter- 

 inaiiy glands inside at the 

 al at the base; throat bell- 

 shaped and containing 5 wide or narrow tettli ; lobes 

 twisted to the right; anthers 2-tailod at the base and 

 tapering at the apex into a long, thread-like ap])endage; 

 style 1: ovaries 2, forming pods ; seeds twistoil. 



Oleanders are of easy culture, and are well achiptf.l to 

 city conditions. Their chief troubles are scale and iin-aly 

 bug. The scale should be sponged off ; the mealy but; 

 is easily dislodged by the hose. Sometimes a plant 

 forms buds which open poorly or not at all. This is 

 often due to the imperfect ripening of the wood. The fls. 

 are borne on the growth of the year, which should be 



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1478. Spray o{ Oleander— Neriu 



I Oleander. 



well ripened in June in order to set many strong buds. 

 For this purpose give the plants plenty of light and air, 

 and water more sparingly when the vegetative growth 

 seems to be tinished. After flowering, give the plants 

 less water. Protect them from frost in winter; keep 

 them, if necessary, in a light shed. In April, prune back 

 the old wood which has borne fls. and give more warmth 



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and water. The ripened leading shoots can be rooted in 

 a bottle of water. Oleanders are poisonous, and some 

 people have died from carelessly eating the fls. Cattle 

 have been killed by eating the foliage. E. S. Miller 

 writes : " We have good success in rooting ripe wood in 

 the winter. The cuttings remain 3 to 4 weeks in the 

 sand, with moderate bottom heat. They grow like weeds 

 when potted." ^ jj 



Oleanders in the East.— The Oleander is becoming 

 somewhat fashionable again, especially the double- 

 flowered variety of cerise color. The following method 

 of Oleander culture has been pursued by the writer 

 with success. Propagation is performed after the flow- 

 ering period. Good-sized cuttings are taken, and every 

 one grows. When rooted, the cuttings are potted in 

 small pots and kept barely alive over the winter. They 

 will need scarcely more attention than geraniums un- 

 til February or March, or whenever growth becomes 

 more active. Later in the spring the young Oleanders 

 arc planted outdoors in the open ground, in good rich 

 loam or garden soil. (This is sometimes done with 

 ivies or euonymus, but the common method is to 

 plunge the pots outdoors during summer). Take up 

 the Oleanders in September, pot them and bring them 

 indoors for their second winter. The following spring 

 the plants will bloom, but they will not be shapely. 

 The time has now arrived to train them, either as bush 

 plants or crown standards. Top them at whatever height 

 is desired, say 2 or 3 feet, and the plants will make good 

 crowns the same season ( i. e. , their second summer ) . Do 

 not allow the plant to bloom the following spring, 

 (whinh is its third spring), and the result will be a flne 

 I < t iniLH m full flower for the fourth summer. 



H i SlEBRECHT. 



Ot til 1 )s m California —Oleanders are much grown 

 m S Lalit and would be extremely popular were it not 

 for black and other scales which seem to prefer them 

 to everything else We have bve colors here, perhaps 

 all of the samr species — white light pink, dark pink, 

 lit II 11 111 'Most of these colors if not all, can be 

 1 1 1 and double forms The writer has 



I t iider more than 15 ft high, but he 



I il ^low larger One Los Angeles man 



[ J 1 \ 11 tj thirteen years ago for sidewalk 



I 1 till impose it cleaned of scale when nec- 

 il Ok mder IS one of the veiv best.) The trees 



I I \ 1 1 lined and t ipped eai h ^ ear They are now 



I I 1 1 ui 1 4- m in diameter at base. Oleanders 

 I I tr nil II 1 I 111 1 are as readily propagated 



II 1 1 I l« I iiitin I willow They are very flor- 



II 11 1 11 It II I 11 H comes out m large, heavy 



III It till.. 1 1 I rumng to make them self- 

 "II '"■'- Ernest Braunton. 



A F!i not scented 

 Oleander Linn Olewder Rose Bat. (Another 

 pi lut t ilkd Rose Ba\ is Apitobiitm angusti folium.) Fig. 

 1478 Lvs in 2 s or 3 s lanceolate appendages of the 

 anthers scarcely protruding segments of the crown 

 ^-4 toothed Mediterranean region Orient. Gn. 5), p. 

 81 (fine trees in vases) A F 10 '05 (Bermuda shrub 

 with a spread of 2j ft ) L B C 7 666 (var. Lodilujesii, 

 with a variegated fl and the appendages entire, oviito 

 and obtuse) V album atiopiiiputeum earneiini and 

 roseum, Hort., are doubtless varieties. 



AA. Fls. scented. 



oddrum, Soland. Sweet-scented Oleander. Lvs. 



in li's, linear-lanceolate: appendages of the anthers 



ni 4-7, long and nar- 



1:74. B.M. 1799 and 



-. commonly narrower 



iihes. In wild plants 



spreading; of odorum 



some range of 



protruding: segments of th 

 row. Persia, India. ' 

 2032. -A less robusi 



color and single and double forms. 



NEBTfiEA (Greek, lowly: referring to the habit). 

 Buhidccir. The Bead, or Coral Bead Plant ( X. depressa ) 

 is a hardy perennial Alpine or rock plant which forms a 

 dense mat of foliage covered with orange-colored, 

 translucent berries the size of a pea. The genus com- 



