TALLIES. 



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TAMARIX. 



formed of various sizes and shapes, 

 are best for pots ; and tallies of cast- 

 iron, with panels for tablets contain- 

 ing the names, to be covered with 

 glass (fig. 34), are the most efficient 

 for plants in the open ground. Where 



fig. 34. 



CAST-IRON OR ZINC TALLY FOR THE OPEN 

 GROUND. 



it is not desired to display the name, 

 the simplest and least expensive mode 

 is to mark a number on a wood tally 

 or stick, and this may be done either 

 by notching the stick with a knife, 

 which is the common practice among 

 gardeners ; or by cutting a portion of 

 it smooth, rubbing it with a little 

 white lead (white paint), and writing 

 the number while it is yet moist with 

 a black-lead pencil. Of all the dif- 

 ferent modes which have hitherto 

 been devised of naming or numbering 

 plants in gardens (and they amount, 

 perhaps, to hundreds), the mode by 

 a stick, white lead, and a black lead 

 pencil, is, perhaps, the best for private 

 gardens ; and it is, undoubtedly, by 

 far the cheapest. In numbering or 

 naming plants in a garden, where good 

 taste ought to preside, it must always 

 be recollected that the means ought 

 to be kept subordinate to the end, and 



that the names of plants should in no 

 private garden be more conspicuous 

 than the plants themselves. The 

 cheapest kind of Tally is a thin strip 

 of zinc, pointed with white-lead, and 

 then written on with a lead pencil ; 

 and these strips of zinc may be had 

 cut into the proper sizes, at the zinc 

 manufacturer's in the New Road. 



Tallow-tree. — Stillegia sebifera. 

 A stove-plant, which should be grown 

 in peat and loam. It belongs to Eu- 

 phorbiaceae. 



Tamarind Tree. — See Tamarin- 

 dus. 



Tamarindus. — Legumhwsce. — 

 The Tamarind Tree. There are two 

 kinds of Tamarinds ; T. zndica, a 

 native of the East Indies, with yellow 

 flowers striped with red, and T. Occi- 

 dent alis, a native of the West Indies, 

 the flowers of which are white. Both 

 kinds, however, very rarely flower in 

 this country, probably because the 

 trees have not sufficient room for their 

 roots. The plants may be raised 

 from seeds of preserved Tamarinds 

 sown in a hot-bed ; and they are Avorth 

 growing for their handsome foliage. 

 They require a strong heat and a rich 

 soil, and they should be supplied with 

 plenty of water. The soil should be 

 composed of equal parts of fresh turfy 

 loam and vegetable mould or rotten 

 dung, with a little sand or peat, and 

 these ingredients should be well 

 mixed together before the compost is 

 used. Young plants may also be 

 raised from cuttings, which strike 

 freely in sand with the help of bot- 

 tom-heat. 



Tamarix. — Tamariscinece. — The 

 Tamarisk. Tall shrubs, mostly na- 

 tives of Europe, which are sub-ever- 

 green, and useful in withstanding the 

 sea-breeze. A great many species are 

 enumerated in books ; but only two 

 are common in British gardens. These 

 are Tamarix gdllica, the French 

 Tamarisk ; and T. germanica, L.— - 



