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STOVE EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 



L. e'lfigans (elegant). 10. Rose, yellow. Au- 

 gust. East Indies. 1841. 



grandiflo'ra (large-flowered) . 12. Red. July. 



East Indies. 1818. 



I'ndica (Indian). 6. Flesh. July. East 



Indies. 1759. 



parviflo'ra (small -flowered). 12. White. 



East Indies. 1818. 



regi'ntc (queen's). 12. Red. East Indies. 



1792. 



LAGE'TTA. Lace Bark. (Its Indian 

 name. Nat. ord., Daphnads [Thymela- 

 ceoe.] Linn., 8-Octandria \-Monoyynia.} 



The inner bark of this stove evergreen is the 

 beautiful Lace Bark of the West Indies. Cut- 

 tings of half-ripened shoots, in sand, under a 

 glass, and in bottom-heat, in April or May ; 

 peat and fibry loam. Summer temp., 60 to 

 80 ; winter, 45 to 55, 

 L. lintea'ria (linen). 6. White. Jamaica. 1/93. 



LAGUNA'RIA. (From its resemblance 

 to Layun<ea, an allied genus. Nat. ord., 

 Mallowworts [Malvaceae], linn., 10- 

 Monadelphia S-Polyandriu. ) 



Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. By cuttings 

 of half-ripened shoots, in sand, under a glass, 

 and in heat, in May ; peat and loam. Winter 

 temp., 40 to 45. 



L. cuneifo'rmis (wedge-leaved). 15. Red. June. 

 Australia. 



lilaci'na (lilac). Lilac. June. Swan River. 



1832. 



Pnterso'nii (Paterson's). 20. Pale-red. 



June. Norfolk Island. 1792. 

 LA'LAGE. (Named after Lalage, a 

 gay, witty dame immortalised by Horace. 

 Nat. ord., Letjwnunow Plants [Faba- 

 cesej Linn., W-Monadelphia G-Decan- 

 dfia. Allied to Platylobium.) 



Greenhouse evergreen shrubs from New Hol- 

 land. Cuttings of the young shoots, when they 

 are getting firm ; seeds in a slight, sweet hotbed, 

 and seedlings gradually hardened ; sandy peat, 

 with a little fibry loam, broken crocks, and 

 charcoal, and extra draining; in summer, a 

 very airy greenhouse. Winter temp., not below 



L. hovecefo'lia ( Ho vea- leaved). 2. Yellow, 

 orange. March . 1841. 



orna'ta (gay). 2. Yellow, purple. April. 



1830. 



LAMBE'RTIA. (Named after the late 

 Mr. Lambert, a distinguished patron of 

 botany. Nat. ord., Proteads [Protea- 

 ceae]. Linn., k-Tctrandria l-Monoyynia. 

 Allied to Hakea.) 



Greenhouse evergreen shrubs from New Hol- 

 land. Cuttings of the ripened shoots, before 

 fresh growth commences, in the spring, in sand, 

 over sandy peat, in pots nearly filled with drain- 

 age, and covered with a bell-glass, and kept 

 close and cool, until the base of the cutting 



| swells, when a little bottom-heat may be ap 

 1 plied ; sandy loam and fibry peat, well-drained, 

 I and mixed with rough pieces of charcoal. Win- 

 j ter temp., 38 to 45. 

 I L. echina'ta (hedgehog). 3. July. 1824. 



formo'sa (handsome). 4. Red. July. 1788. 



longifo'lia (long -leaved). 4. Red. Julv. 



1826. 



multiflo'ra (many-flowered). Orange. 



ovalifo'lia (oval-leaved). 1836. 



propi'nqua (related). 1830. 



LAMB'S LETTUCE. See Corn-sailed. 



LAMOUROU'XIA. (Named after J. V. 

 F. Lamouronx, a naturalist. Nat. ord., 

 Figworts [Scrophulariaceas]. Linn., 

 14^-Didynamia S-Angiospermia. Allied 

 to Bartsia.) 





Greenhouse herbaceous perennials, scarlet- 

 flowered, from Mexico. For culture, see Ange- 

 Ionia. 



L. corda'ta (heart-shaped-team*). 

 multi'fida (m&ny -cleft-leaved}, 



1$. 1846. 

 l. 1846. 



LAMPWICK. Phlo'mis tychni'tk. 



LANCE -WOOD. Guatte'ria. 



LAND-DITCHING. See Draining. 



LANDRA. Rapha'nus la'ndra. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING, as its name 

 intimates, is the composition of beauti- 

 ful scenery, so that all artifice is con- 

 cealed by the blending of trees, shrubs, 

 ground, and water ; thus forming vistas 

 gratifying as those which occur na- 

 turally. Admiration for such scenery 

 is an innate quality of the human 

 mind ; and successfully to imitate such 

 scenery requires judgment as well as 

 taste* It is not possible, without a 

 heavy outlay, to introduce any desired 

 species of landscape beauty upon a 

 given plot of ground. There is the 

 beauty of the level surface, quite un- 

 attainable without such outlay, upon 

 a surface which is abrupt and broken. 

 The beauty of the clay districts is not 

 otherwise to be secured upon those of 

 the chalk; neither on light uplands 

 can be arranged the dense beauties of 

 well watered alluvial vales. " Consult 

 the genius of the place" is an axiom 

 which has been derided, but which is 

 dictated by the soundest sense. 



Under this general head we have not 

 space to enter fully into details ; but 

 some of these will be found, under 

 their appropriate titles, in other pages, 

 and chiefly borrowed from Mr. Whate- 

 ley, who has published more correct 

 views upow the art of tastefully arrang- 



