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HOB 



Stove evergreens, with scarlet flowers, from the 

 East Indies. Cuttings of young shoots just get- 

 ting firm at the base, in sandy soil, under glass, 

 aad in heat ; sandy peat, and light, fibry loam. 

 Summer temp., 60 to 90; winter, 50 to 60. 

 H. sangui'nea, (bloody). 4. 1796. Shrub. 

 sca'ndens (climbing). May. 1824. Climber. 



HOMALONE'MA. (From homalos, regu- 

 lar, and nema, a filament; in reference 

 to the regularity of the numerous sta- 

 mens. Nat. ord., Arads [Aracese]. Linn., 

 21-Moncecia 7-Heptandria. Allied to 

 Kichardia.) 



Greenhouse herbaceous perennial. Offsets from 

 the roots, and dividing the plant; rich, open 

 loam, Winter temp., 40 to 45. 

 H. corda'ta (heart- leav ed). White. June, China. 

 1820. 



HONESTY. Luna'rla. 



HONEY-BEBBY. Mellco'cCCt. 



HONEY-DEW. See EXTBAVASATED SAP. 



HONEY-IXOWEB. Melia! nthus. 



HONEY-GAELIC. Nectarosco'rdum. 



HONEY-LOCUST. Gledi'tschia trica'nthos. 



HONEYSUCKLE. Caprifo'lium. 



HONEYWOET. Ceri'nthe. 



HOOP-PETTICOAT. Narci'ssus bulboco'- 

 dium. 



HOOP-ASH. Ce'ltis crassifo'lia. 



HOP. Hu'mulus. 



HOP-HOBNBEAM. Phologo'phora. 



HOBEHOUND. Marru'bium. 



HOBKE'LLA. (Named after J. Horkel, 

 a German botanist. Nat. ord., Roseworts 

 [Kosaceee], Linn., W-Decandria 1- 

 Monoyynia. Allied to Potentilla.) 



Hardy herbaceous perennial. Seeds and divid- 

 ing the plant in spring ; common garden-soil. 

 H. conge'sta (crowded-flowered). 2. White. 

 August. California. 1826. 



HOEMI'NUJH. (From hormao, to excite ; 

 its medicinal qualities. Nat. ord., Lip- 

 worts [Lamiacesej. Linn., l^-Didynamia 

 I-Gymnospermia. Allied to Monarda.) 



Hardy herbaceous perennial. Division of the- 

 plant, and seeds in spring ; requires a dry situa- 

 tion, or a damp winter will injure it. 

 H . Pyrena'icum (Pyrenean). 1. Blue. June, 

 Pyrenees. 1820. 



HOBN. See ANIMAL MATTEES. 

 HOBNBEAM. Carpi' mis. 

 HOBN-OF-PLENTY. Fe'dict. 

 HOEN-POPPY. Olau'cium. 



HOESE-CHESTNUT. ^E'scuhtS. 



HOESE-EADISH. (Cochlea'ria Armo- 

 ra'cia.) Delights in a deep, rich soil, 

 tanks of a ditch, &c. Should the ground 

 require manure, it should he dug in at 

 the depth at which the sets are intended 

 to he planted. It is propagated by sets, 

 provided by cutting the main root and 



I offsets into lengths of two inches. The 

 j tops, or crowns of the roots, form the 

 | best, those taken from the centre never 

 becoming so soon fit for use, or of so 

 nne a growth. Each set should have at 

 least two eyes; for without one they re- 

 fuse to vegetate at all. For a supply of 

 the crowns, any inferior piece of ground, 

 planted with sets six inches apart and 

 six deep, will furnish from one to five 

 tops each, and may be collected for 

 several successive years with little more 

 trouble than keeping them clear of 

 weeds ; but the times for planting are in. 

 October and February. 



Insert the sets fn rows eighteen inches 

 apart each way. The ground trenched 

 between two and three feet deep, the cut- 

 tings being placed along the bottom of 

 the trench, and the soil turned from the 

 next one over them. The earth ought 

 to lie lightly over the sets; therefore 

 treading on the beds should be carefully 

 avoided. The shoots make their appear- 

 ance in May or June, or earlier if the 

 sets were planted in autumn. 



Remove the leaves as they decay in 

 autumn, the ground being also hoed and 

 raked over at the same season, which 

 may be repeated in the following spaing. 



In the succeeding autumn they merely 

 require to be hoed as before, and may be 

 taken up as wanted. By having three 

 beds devoted to this root, one will always 

 be lying fallow and improving ; of which 

 period advantage should be taken to ap- 

 ply any requisite manure. 



Taking up, To take them up, a trench, 

 is dug along the outside row down to the 

 bottom of the roots, which, when the bed 

 is continued in one place, may. be cut off 

 level to the original stool, and the earth 

 from the next row then turned over them, 

 to the requisite depth ; and so in rotation 

 to the end of the plantation. By this 

 mode a bed will continue in perfection 

 for five or six years, after which a fresh 

 plantation is usually necessary. But the 

 best practice is to take the crop up en- 

 tirely, and to form a plantation annually; 

 for it not only causes the roots to be 

 finer, hut also affords the opportunity of 

 changing the site. If this mode is fol- 

 lowed care must be taken to raise every 

 lateral root; for almost the smallest will 

 vegetate if left in the ground. 



HOESE-EADISH TEEE. Mori'nga. 



HOBSE-SHOE VETCH. Hippocre'pis. 



HOESE-THISTLE. Ci'rsium 



