ENOYCLOPHDIA OF GARDENING. 
CULTURE: Compost, equal parts sandy loam, rough old mortar & 
oe bricks. osition, sunny, airy greenhouse or window. Pot, 
arch or April, in well-drained pots just large exag to accommodate 
roots. Repot every third or fourth year only. ater moderately, 
March to Sept.; once a fortnight, Sept. to Dec., none afterwards. 
Syringe on evenings of warm days, June to Sept. Apply soot water 
to healthy plants, June to Sept. Ventilate freely in summer. Temp., 
March to Sept., 60° to 70°; Sept. to March, 50° to 55°. bear eee by 
seeds sown } in. deep in well-drained pans or pots of sandy soil in temp. 
75° in March, keeping soil moderately moist; by cuttings of the tops of 
the plants inserted in small pots of sandy, gritty compost in spring ; 
by grafting on Cereus speciossimus at any time. 
SPEOIES CULTIVATED: M. bicolor, purple, June, 6 to 12 in., Mexico; 
chlorantha, greenish yellow, summer, 6 in., Mexico; cirrhifera, rose, summer, 4 in., 
Mexico; clava, green, red, and yellow, June, 1 ft., Mexico; compressa (Syn. 
augularis), rosy purple, summer, 4 to 8 in., Mexico; dasycantha (Thimble Cactus), 
red, summer, 3 in., Mexico; discolor, rosy red, 2 in., Mexico; dolichocentra, pale 
purple, summer, 6 to 8 in., Mexico; echinata, rose, summer, 6 in., Mexico; echinus, 
yellow, June, 2 to 3 in., Mexico; elegans, 2 in., Mexico, grown for its stem only; 
elephantidens, violet-rose, autumn, 6 in., Paraguay; elongata, yellow, summer, 
3 in., Mexico; fissurata, rose, 2 in., Mexico; floribunda, rose, summer, 5 in., Chili; 
gracilis, yellow or white, summer, 2 in., Mexico; Grahami, rose, July, 3 in., 
Colorado; haageana, carmine-rose, June, 4 in., Mexico; longimamma, citron-yellow, 
June, 4 in., Mexico; macromeris,, carmine, Aug., 4 in., Mexico; macrothele, yellow, 
June, Mexico; micromeris, white or pink, Aug., 4 in., Mexico; multiceps, yellow 
and red, summer, 1 ft., Mexico; ncumanniana, rose, summer, 6 in., Mexico; Ottonis, 
white, May, 3 in., Mexico; phellosperma, 5 ft., Mexico; pulchra, rose, June, 4 in., 
Mexico; pusilla, yellowish white and red, May, 2 in., Mexico; pycnacantha, yellow, 
July, 6 in., Mexico; sanguinea, crimson, June, 6 in., Mexico; Scheerii, yellow and 
cream, summer, 7 in., Mexico; Schelhasii, white and rose, summer, 4 in., Mexico; 
schiediana, white, summer, 3 in., Mexico; semperviva, 3 in., Mexico; senilis, scarlet, 
summer; stella-aurata, white, summer, 2 in., Mexico; subpolyhedra, yellow and red, 
summer, 8 in., Mexico; sulcolonata, yellow, summer, 4 in., Mexico; tetracantha, 
rose, July, 9 in., Mexico; tuberculosa, pale purple, May, 6 in., Mexico; turbinata, 
yellow, June, Mexico; uncinata, purple, May and June, 4 in., Mexico; vetula, 
yellow, May and June, 3 in., Mexico; villifera, rose and purple, May, 3 in., Mexico; 
viridis, yellow, May and June, 4 in., Mexico; vivipara, purple, May and June, 2 in., 
America; wildiana, rose, summer, 3 to 4 in., Mexico; Wrightii, purple, May, 
Mexico; zuccariniana, purple, May and June, 3 in., Mexico. 
Mammoth Tree of California (Sequoia gigantea).—See 
Sequoia. 
Mandarin Orange-tree (Citrus nobilis).—See Citrus. 
Mandevilla (Chili Jasmine).—Ord. Apocynacew. Greenhouse 
flowering climber. Deciduous. irst introduced 1837. 
CULTURE: Compost, equal parts peat & loam, half part each of 
sand & pounded charcoal. Position, well-drained beds or borders; 
shoots trained up trellis, pillars, or roof of sunny greenhouse. Plant, 
Feb. Water freely, Feb. to Sept. ; moderately, Sept. to December; none 
afterwards. Syringe twice daily, Feb. to July. Temp., Feb. to Sept. 
55° to 65°; Sept. to Dec. 45° to 55°; Dec. to Feb. 40° to 50°, Prune 
shoots to within two buds of their base immediately after flowering. 
sd he by seeds sown in pans or bed of sandy peat slightly covered 
wie tne eu a : alis of 65° to 75°, Feb. to April; cuttings of firm 
side shoots, o 3in. long, inserted in sand under bell-glass in temp. 
of 70° to 85° in summer. & E 
“ nee M. suavolens, white, fragrant, summer, 15 to 30 ft., 
Manettia.—Ord. Rubiacew.  Greenh i 
AP leg lebron ge os reenhouse evergreen climbers. 
CULTURE: Compost, equal parts loam, peat, pounded charcoal & 
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