ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING. 
CULTURE: Soil, ordinary good. Position, sunny borders or shrub- 
beries. Plant, Oct. to Feb.’ Prune, moderately after flowering (June), 
removing or shortening shoots that have flowered only. Allow nu 
suckers to grow from roots, Apply house slops or liquid manure in 
summer to plants growing in poor soils. 
POT CULTURE FOR FORCING: Compost, two parts good sandy 
loam, one part leaf-mould, & little sand. Pot, Oct. or Nov. Place 
plants after potting in sheltered corner outdoors, protecting pots from 
frost with litter until required for forcing. Transfer to temp of 55°, 
Nov. to Feb. Syringe daily. Water moderately. Directly buds burst 
place in temp. of 60° to 65°, when expanded replace in temp. of 55°. 
Prune shoots that have flowered to within 2in. of base directly ‘after 
blooming. Keep plants in heat until May, then gradually harden and 
plaut outdoors. Plants must not be forced two years in succession. 
Lilacs may be grown in cold greenhouse for flowering in April and 
May. Place in greenhouse in Nov. Propagate by seeds sown in sunny 
position outdoors in autumn or spring; suckers removed & planted 
from Oct. to Feb.; layering shoots in Sept.; choice varieties by bud- 
ding on common species in July, or by grafting on common species on 
the ash in March or April. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: 8S. sinensis (Rouen Lilac), violet, May and June, 
4 to G ft., hybrid; Emodi (Indian Lilac), purplish or white, May, 6 to 9 ft., 
Himalayas; japonica (Japanese Lilac), crimson, July, 15 to 2U ft., Japan; Josikwa 
(Hungarian Lilac), bluish purple, May, 8 ft., Hungary; persica (Persian Lilac), 
bluish purple, May, 4 to 6 tt., Afghanistan; persica alba, white; vulgars 
(Common Lilac), lilac, May, 8 to 12 ft., EK. Europe. Also many charming varieties, 
for which see trade lists. 
Syringa (Philadelphus coronarius).—Sce Philadelphus. 
Tabernzmontana (Adam’s Apple; East Indian Rose Bay).— 
Ord. Apocynaces. Stove evergreen flowcring shrubs. First introduced 
1770. : 
CULTURE: Compost, two parts sandy loam, one part fibry peat, half 
a part silver sand. Position, well-drained pots in light stove. Pot, 
Feb. to April. Prune straggling shoots moderately close immediately 
alter flowering. Water freely, March to Oct.; moderately afterwards. 
Syringe daily, March, & until flowers appear. Temp., March to Sept. 
7° to 80°; Sept. to March 65° to 75°. ropagate by cuttings of ripe 
shoots, 2 to 3in. long, inserted in small’ pots filled with sand under 
bell-glass in temp. 65° to 75° in Feb. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: T. coronaria, white, summer, 4 to 8 ft., India; and 
its varicties crispa (Crisp petalled) and flore pleno (double), 
Table Mountain Orchid (Disa graudiltoray—See Disa. 
Table-shaped Houseleek (Sempervivum tabuleforme).— 
See Sempervivum. 
Tacsonia (Blood-red Passion-flower; Van Volxem’s Passion- 
flower).—Ord. DPassiflore. Greenhouse evergreen flowering climbers. 
First introduced 1828. 
CULTURE: Compost, equal parts fibrous loam & peat, one fourth 
silver sand. Pot or plant, Feb. or March. Position, well-drained tubs 
or pots, or beds 18in. deep & 2ft. wide; shoots to be trained up 
rafters or walls; sunny. Prune, Feb., thinning out weak shoots & 
shortening stroug ones one-third. Water copiously, March to Sept. ; 
moderately afterwards. Syringe twice daily, April to Sept. Apply 
stimulants occasionally to healthy plants when in flower only. Temp., 
March to Oct. GO° to 70°; Oct. to March 40° to 50°. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: T, cxoniensis, rosc or pink, summer, 20 to 30 ft., 
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