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and these may be taken into gentle heat 
to bring on their flowers, and if repotted 
when they have thrown the first two 
leaves a few inches, the flowers will be 
considerably longer; but before any plant 
is taken from the bed of leaves be surethat 
it has made a good stock of healthy roots, 
or it will be spoiled by the forcing pro¬ 
cess. Narcissus do not require a power¬ 
ful heat to bring out their flowers, 55° 
will do it better than any other, and the 
supply of water should be at once suffi¬ 
cient, but by no means excessive. When 
grown in the open borders, the roots 
should be planted in October, in newly- 
dug and well-manured ground, at a depth 
of three inches, reckoning from the top 
of the bulb to the surface of the soil; 
this will not be too much for any, except 
perhaps the Jonquils, which, from having 
smaller bulbs, may be placed an inch 
nigher to the top; at this depth, and 
■with plenty of dung about them, water 
will not be required, but they will grow 
strong and flower finely. When in the 
beds of the parterre, it becomes neces¬ 
sary to remove them as soon as their 
beauty is past, to make room for other 
plants; as the roots are by no means ma¬ 
ture at this time, they should be fc laid 
in 5 ’ in some slightly shaded place until 
the foliage is quite withered, when they 
may be taken up, dried, and stored away 
until wanted in the next planting season. 
The following are very beautiful: ajax, 
biflorus, bulbocodium , cornuus,jloribundus, 
incomparabilis, injlatus, italicus, and its 
varieties ; jonquilla, double and single ; 
moschatus, poeticus, pseudo-narqissus, and 
its varieties; Sabini, Tazetta , Telamonius 
and its varieties; temifolius, Trewianus, 
and tubijlorus. 
NELUMBIUM (Jussieu.) Nat. 
Ord. NelumbiacecE. These magnificent 
aquatics are deserving all the care neces¬ 
sary to cause them to flower. N. specio- 
sum is supposed to be the sacred bean 
of the Egyptians ; it is a noble species, 
and like all the others, should be grown 
in a tub half filled with rich alluvial soil, 
and the remainder with water; in sum¬ 
mer, while growing, a temperature of at 
least 80°, running up occasionally even 
to 100°, will be required to cause them 
to bloom, but in winter the soil in the 
tub should be allowed to become dry, 
and any protection sufficient to exclude 
frost will be enough ; increase is had by 
offsets or seed. 
NEMATANTHUS (Schrader.) Nat. 
Ord. Gesneracece. Was it not for the ra¬ 
ther straggling habit of this plant, its 
large, crimson, tubular flowers would 
constitute it an universal favorite. It 
grows rapidly in peat and loam, with or¬ 
dinary stove treatment, and to render it 
ornamental, should be very frequently 
stopped while young, so as to form a 
bushy specimen; it, however, will insist 
on attaining a considerable size before it 
can be had to flower freely. 
NEMESIA (Yentenat.) Nat. Ord. 
Scrophulariacece . Dwarf, hardy annuals, 
suitable for the fronts of borders in ob¬ 
scure situations, there are three species 
bearing small purple flowers, resembling 
those of the Antirrhinum; they succeed 
in any light soil. 
NEMOPHILA (Barton.) Nat. Ord. 
Hydrophyllacem. Another genus of hardy 
annuals, but of the most beautiful de¬ 
scription; they are also all dwarf, and 
only require to be sown in good ground 
where they are to bloom. N. insignis, 
bright blue, forms an excellent bed, for, 
when seen in a mass, nothing can exceed 
the lively beauty of its flowers. N. ato- 
maria , white spotted, and N. discoidalis, 
black, circled with a band of pure white, 
are equally desirable, and either of them, 
by sowing in autumn, may be had to 
bloom in pots through the winter, when 
their presence in the greenhouse or con¬ 
servatory is most welcome. 
NEPENTHES (Linn.) Nat. Ord. 
Nepenthaceai. Among the many curious 
forms which abound in the vegetable 
kingdom, perhaps few arrest more gene¬ 
ral attention than do the members of this 
genus. The extraordinary appendage to 
the apex of each leaf have obtained for 
it the appropriate appellation of the pit¬ 
cher plant. Connected with the point 
of the leaf, by means of a long pendant 
strap-like ligament, hangs a hollow tube, 
of the colour and consistence of the leaf, 
shaped much in the manner of some an¬ 
tique vase, which will hold from half a 
