PNCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING. 
shady shrubberies for common kinds; sunny shrubberies, lawns, or 
borders for variegated & Irish yews. Plant, Sept. to Nov., Feb. to 
-May. Prune April. 
WINTER BEDDING: Sort best adapted for the purpose—T. baccata 
ee Plant, Oct. or Nov. Lift & replant in reserve border 
in May. 
POT CULTURE: Most suitable kind—T. baccata elegantissima. Pot, 
Oct. or Nov. Compost, two parts good ordinary mould, one part leaf- 
mould. Water moderately, Nov. to April; freely afterwards. Keep 
in cold greenhouse, balcony, or corridor Oct. to May; outdoors after- 
wards, pots plunged to rims in cinders or soil. 
HEDGE COLTURE: Suitable kinds—Common, gold & silver striped, 
upright English & Irish yews. Position, sunny. Soil, good moist 
ordinary, previously trenched 3 spits deep & 3 ft. wide. Plant, Oct., 
Nov., March, or April. Distance for planting: 12in. for trees 18 in. 
high; 18in. for trees 3ft. high; 2ft. for trees 3 ft. Gin. to 5 ft. high. 
Average cost of plants per 100, 21s. to 30s. Cost of preparing soil 
and planting hedge, per lineal yard, 9d. to 1s. Prune, trim, or clip 
in April or Sept. Propagate by seeds sown lin. deep in 
light soil outdoors in March, or 4in. deep in pans or boxes of light 
soil, in cold frame or greenhouse, in March, transplanting seedling in 
uursery bed when large enough to handle; by cuttings of shoots in- 
serted in sandy soil under hand-light, or in cold frame in September ; 
grafting variegated kinds on common upright yew in March; layering 
in Sept. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: T. baccata (Common Yew), 50 ft., Europe and N. 
Asia. Also the following varieties: adpressa, 8 ft.; albo variegata, leaves edged 
with silver; argentea, leaves striped with silver; aurea, leaves golden (Golden 
Yew); Dovastoni aurea pendula, leaves edged with yellow; elegantissima, leaves 
edged with creamy white; erecta (Fulham Yew), erect habit; fastigiata (Irish 
Yew), columnar habit; fastigiata variegata, leaves edged and striped with white; 
fastigiata aureo-variegata, leaves, green and yellow; T. canadensis (Canadian Yew), 
3 ft., Canada; cuspidata (Japanese Yew), 20 ft., Japan. 
Tea-berry (Gaultheria procumbens).—See Gaultheria. 
Tea-plant (Camellia theifera).—See Camellia. 
Tea-scented Rose (Rosa indica).—See Rosa. 
Tea Tree (Lycium barbarum).—See Lycium. 
Tecoma (Trumpet Flower; Moreton Bay Trumpet Jasmine).— 
Ord. Bignoniacez. Stove greenhouse & hardy evergreen climbing 
flowering shrubs. First introduced 1640. 
CULTURE OF STOVE SPECIES: Compost, two parts loam, one part 
peat & silver sand. Position, pots or beds with shoots trained up roof. 
Pot or plant, Feb. or March. Prune, Feb., shortening strong shoots 
3, and weak shoots 3. Water freely, April to Sept.; keep nearly dry 
afterwards. Expose shoots fully to sun during August & Sept. in 
order to ripen them thoroughly for flowering next season. Temp., 
March to Sept. 65° to 85°; Sept. to Nov. 60° to 70°; afterwards 55° 
to 65°. 
CULTURE OF GREENHOUSE SPECIES: Compost, two parts loam, 
one part peat & silver sand. Position, large well-drained pots, or 
beds 3 ft. square, 18 in. deep, for one plant, in light sunny greenhouse ; 
shoots trained up roof. Pot or plant, Feb. or March. Good drainage 
absolutely necessary. Prune away } of strong shoots, 3 of weak shoots, 
in Feb. Water copiously, April to Oct. Keep nearly dry, Oct. to 
April. Apply weak stimulants occasionally to healthy established 
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