ENCYCLOPADIA OF GARDENING. 
well-drained border. Plant, Jan., placing bulbs 4in. deep & 2in. 
apart. Lift & replant bulbs annually. Mulch surface of bed in 
March with cow manure. 
POT CULTURE: Compost, two parts sandy loam, one part leaf- 
mould or decayed cow manure. Pots, 44-in. in diameter, well drained. 
Place five bulbs 3in. deep, in each pot in Nov., & cover with cocoanut 
fibre refuse in cold frame or under cool greenhouse stage until growth 
commences. Water moderately from time bulbs begin to grow until 
flowers fade, then gradually cease, keeping bulbs dry till Jan. Temp., 
Sept. to Mar., 40° to 50°; other times, 50° to 60°. Propagate by offsets 
treated as advised for bulbs. 
SPECIES OULTIVATED: N. ccelestina, blue, summer, 6 in., Oalifornia; gemini- 
flora, yellow and black, summer, 6 in., California. 
Nemesia.—Ord. Scrophulariacee. Half-hardy annuals. Nat. 
8. Africa. First introduced 1774. Flowers, fragrant. 
CULTURE: Soil, ordinary. Position, sunny beds or rockeries. 
Propagate by seeds sown in March 1-16 in. deep in well-drained pots or 
pans, filled with light fibrous loam & little wood ashes. Place in temp. 
55° to 65°, transplanting ee when they have formed three leaves 
lin. apart in well-drained pots, placing in temp. of 55°, & planting into 
flowering position outdoors in June; also seeds sown in May 1-16in. 
deep in patches outdoors where plants are required to flower, after- 
wards thinning seedlings to 2or 3in. apart. 
SPECIES OULTIVATED: N. bicornis, purple, July, 2 ft.; strumosa Suttoni, 
various colours, summer, 1 ft. 
Nemophila (Californian Blue-bell). — Ord. Hydrophyllacee. 
Hardy trailing annuals. First introduced 1822. 
OUTDOOR CULTURE: Soil, ordinary. Position, in masses or in 
lines as edgings to sunny beds or borders. Sow seeds 1-16in. deep in 
March or April for flowering in summer; in Aug. or Sept. for flowering 
in spring. in seedlings to 1 or 2in. apart when tin. high. 
POT CULTURE: Compost, two parts good ordinary soil, one part 
leaf-mould or well-decayed manure. Size of pots 44in. diameter. 
Place lin. of drainage in pots, cover with moss & fill up to within jin. 
of rim with above compost pressed firmly. Sow seeds thinly, slightly 
covering with fine mould, & place pots in cool shady frame or window. 
Water moderately at first, freely when seedlings appear. Apply weak 
stimulants once or twice weekly when plants begin to flower. Position 
when in flower, cold sunny greenhouse, window or frame. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: N. aurita, purple and violet, summer, 1 ft., California: 
insignis, blue and white, summer, 1 ft., California; insignis alba, white; insignis 
grandiflora, white and blue; maculata, white and purple, summer, 6 in., Cali- 
fornia; Menziesii, white or blue, summer, 6 in., California. 
Nepaul Laburnum (Piptanthus nepalensis).—See Piptanthus. 
Nepaul Poppy (Meconopsis nepalensis).—See Saxifraga. 
Nepaul Trumpet-flower (Beaumontia grandiflora).—Sce 
Beaumontia. : 
Nepenthes (Pitcher- lant). — Ord. Nepenthacee. Stove ever 
green sub-shrubby perennials. Orn. foliage. First introduced 1789. 
Flowers, greenish, dicecious, insignificant. Leaves, oblong or lance- 
shaped, terminating in a pitcher-like appendage; green variously 
mottled with red, brown & crimson. 
CULTURE: Compost, two parts good brown fibrous peat, one part 
sphagnum moss, osition in baskets suspended from roof in shad 
part of stove. Plant, or re-basket, Feb. or March. Temp., March 
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