maura'ndia. 



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MAXILLARIA. 



these flowers are called Turn-again- 

 gentlemen. For their culture see 

 Lilium. 



Martynia. — Pedalinece. Half 

 hardy annuals, with, very oily seeds, 

 which require to be raised on a hot- 

 bed, but which may be planted out in 

 May. 



Marvel of Peru. — See Mirabilis. 



Mastic Tree. A kind of Pista- 

 cia tree, producing the gum mastic. 



Mathiola. — Cruciferce The 



Ten -week Stock is an annual which 

 should be raised on a hotbed, and 

 transplanted into a very rich sandy 

 loam in May. The remains of celery 

 trenches which have been grown in a 

 sandy or calcareous loam form the 

 best soil for Stocks of all kinds ; but 

 where this kind of soil cannot be ob- 

 tained, sand or chalk, enriched with 

 vegetable mould, will do extremely 

 well. The finest Stocks I ever saw 

 were in a garden at Greenhithe, the 

 soil of which was chalk, and in Mrs. 

 Humphrey's garden at Shenstone, the 

 soil of which was a loamy sand ; and 

 though both these were biennial 

 Stocks, the same soil would have 

 grown the annual ones equally well. 

 Some of the finest Stocks in British 

 gardens are from seed raised in Ger- 

 many and Russia ; and the plants 

 raised from this seed are called Ger- 

 man and Russian Stocks. For the 

 culture of the biennial species, see 

 Brompton Stocks. 



Maura'ndia. — Scrophularinece. 

 Elegant climbing plants, with beauti- 

 ful dark-blue or purple flowers, which 

 are rather tender, and are generally 

 killed in winter, if planted in the 

 open ground. They do not require 

 much room for their roots ; and gene- 

 rally flower best in a pot, as their 

 roots are so weak and delicate as 

 easily to be killed by having coarse- 

 growing plants near them. M. Bar- 

 clay ana thrives best in a pot with 

 wires fixed iu the rim for it to run 



over (see fig. 22 ); and thus treated, 

 it forms an extremely beautiful object 

 in a balcony garden. All the Mauran- 



Fig. 22. 



dias should be grown in the light rich 

 soil ; and they are increased by seeds 

 or cuttings. 



MAXiLiAM\.~Orchidace(B.~Avery 

 extensive genus of Epiphytes, some of 

 which have their flowers hanging 

 down from the roots, and are grown 

 in baskets of moss, the husks of cocoa- 

 nuts, or on pieces of wood with the 

 bark on, or hung by wires to the rafters 

 of the damp stove or orchideous house. 

 Some of the species have upright 



