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then lay the roots regularly, four inches 

 apart, all over this surface, and then cover 

 them two inches deep, and give them a 

 good watering with a rose-pot ; and, after 

 that, we would cover the whole with an 

 inch of quite rotten leaves, and water 

 them once a week the foil owing summer. 

 February, or early in March, is the best 

 time to plant them ; and the third season 

 they are in full perfection, and will last 

 for ten or a dozen years. 



Forcing.- Pot them in thirty-two-sized 

 pots, filled to within three and a half 

 inches of the rim with rich loam, upon 

 which the roots are closely placed, and 

 then covered about two inches in thick- 

 ness with equal parts of leaf-mould and 

 sand ; they are then well watered, so as 

 to settle the mould about the roots ; 

 place them on a shelf near the glass, 

 in a moist stove or forcing-house, the 

 temperature of which may range from 

 65 to 75, and take care that the soil 

 does not become dry. When they are 

 so far advanced that the plants show 

 their heads of flowers, remove them into 

 a warm greenhouse, still placing them 

 near the glass, until, as they advance in 

 growth, they are withdrawn by degrees 

 into a shaded part of the house, from 

 whence they are removed to the drawing- 

 room as required, their places to be im- 

 mediately filled with others, which are 

 similarly treated, and thus an ample 

 succession will be kept up. Care and 

 attention are requisite in lifting and se- 

 lecting the plants for forcing ; they re- 

 quire a minute examination to distinguish 

 those that will flower from those that will 

 not, the only difference being that the 

 buds of the former are more round and 

 short than those of the latter. ^-Florists' 

 Journ. 



LILY-PINK. Aphylla'nthes. 



LILY-THORN. Catesba'a. 



LIME. Ci'trus hme'tta. 



LIMK is valuable as a manure, for some 

 one or more of its salts enter into the 

 composition of every vegetable. But it 

 is not the lime of every district that is 

 suitable for the purpose. Some specimens 

 contain a very large proportion of mag- 

 nesia, which, absorbing carbonic acid 

 very slowly, remains in a caustic state, to 

 the injury of the roots of the plants, 

 and the diminution of benefit from the 

 carbonic acid evolved by the decomposing 

 constituents of the soil. Neither can 

 the gardener apply it to all his soils with 



advantage. Thus, peat and bog earth 

 are beneficial to the plants grown upon 

 them by their containing Gallic and 

 other acids, which lime removes. To 

 garden-soil of the usual staple about fifty 

 bushels of lime per acre is a sufficient 

 quantity. If the soil be clayey the quan- 

 tity may be doubled. A very excellent 

 manure is formed by mixing one bushel 

 of salt with every two bushels of lime. 

 Lime cannot be applied to the soil too 

 fresh from the kiln ; for if allowed to 

 absorb carbonic acid from the air, it is 

 rapidly converted into chalk. 



When crops are devastated by the slug, 

 dress them, some evening, so as to render 

 the surface of the soil quite white, with 

 caustic lime, during the promise of a 

 few days' dry weather. It is instant 

 destruction to every slug it falls upon ; 

 and those that it misses are destroyed 

 by their coming in contact with it when 

 moving in search of food. 



Lime-rubbish is the old mortar and 

 plaster obtained when brick - buildings 

 are pulled down. It is an excellent ma- 

 nure, abounding with the salts of potash 

 and lime. It should be reduced to pow- 

 der before spreading and digging in. 



LIME, or LINDEN-TREE. Ti'lia. 



LIME-LOOPER MOTH. Geometra. 



LIME-WATER. To forty gallons of clean 

 water, half an hour before using, put one 

 peck of fresh-slaked lime. As soon as 

 it is clear it is fit for use. 



A watering-pot containing four gallons 

 will water a bed of four feet by thirty 

 feet, or rows of cauliflowers, cabbages, 

 &c., of double the length. 



LIMNA'NTHES. (From limne, a marsh, 

 and anthos, a flower. Nat. orcl., Indian 

 Cresses [Tropseolacese]. Linn., 10-Decan- 

 drla \-Monogynia.} 



Hardy trailing annuals, from California. Seeds 

 in April, in a moist and shady situation. 

 L. a'tbn (white). . White. July. 1843. 



Douglafsii (Douglas's). 1. Yellow. July. 1833. 



ro'sea (rosy). . Pink. July. 1833. 



LIMNO'CHABIS. (From limne, a marsh, 

 and diairo, to delight in ; water-plants. 

 Nat. ord., Butomads [Butomaceas]. Linn., 

 13-Polyandria 1-Monogynw. ) 



Stove, perennial, yellow - flowered aquatics, 

 from Brazil. Divisions, runners, and seeds ; tuba 

 or cisterns, in a stove, or the shallow part of an 

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

 55 to 60. 

 L. HnmWldtii (Humboldt's). 1$. May. 1831. 



Plumie'ri (Plumier's). 1. July. 1822. 



LIMO'NIA. (From limoun, the Arabia 



