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Boraginacece. Ratlier coarse growing 
plants, but useful for planting under 
trees, in shrubberies, and other places 
where little else can be grown; their 
flowers are of various shades of purple, 
red, yellow, or white, either separate or 
blended; they grow fast in any soil, but 
prefer a strong moist one. 
TABERNiEMONTANA (Linn.) 
Nat. Ord. Apocynacece. Yery handsome 
stove shrubs, with noble deep green foli¬ 
age and large white or yellow flowers 
possessing an agreeable fragrance. They 
should be grown in an equal mixture of 
turfy loam and peat, and annually, after 
blooming, receive a moderate pruning to 
keep them bushy and increase the num¬ 
ber of flower heads. The large leathery 
leaves of this and other similar genera 
are inducements, in the way of shelter, to 
many troublesome insects, such as thrip, 
scale, and mealy bug; to eradicate these 
and keep the plants healthy they should 
be frequently washed, each leaf sepa¬ 
rately, with a sponge and soap and 
water, or the latter alone, and at inter¬ 
vals receive a sharp sprinkling with _ a 
syringe to clean them of dust, which in 
itself is prejudicial to all plants, and 
gives encouragement to the insects by 
causing a languid action in the_leaves. 
TACSONIA (Jussieu.) Nat. Ord. 
Passifloraceee. Handsome climbingplants, 
closely resembling the well-known pas¬ 
sion flower, to which they may be re¬ 
ferred for culture. A good greenhouse, 
however, is sufficient for all these. 
TAGETES (Linn.) Natural Order 
Composite. Marigolds are ancient favo¬ 
rites in English gardens, particularly 
those known as African and French 
marigolds; the former ( T . erecta ) have 
uniformly large yellow or orange-coloured 
flowers, and usually attain a couple of 
feet in height; the latter (T. patula) are 
more dwarf, and have their flowers 
striped of a deep brown-purple, and 
yellow; they are all showy, especially in 
masses, and are effective for distant 
groups. There is, however, another 
species, T. tenuifolia (T. signata of the 
shops), we generally prefer for bedding ; 
it is more compact in habit, and though 
its flowers do not boast the vivid colour¬ 
ing of the French marigolds (being en¬ 
tirely yellow), yet they are produced in 
such long succession as to amply com¬ 
pensate for the deficiency; besides which 
the scent so frequently complained of in 
the others, is in this so much reduced as 
to be no longer unpleasant. The phea¬ 
sant-eyed variety of T. daucioides is also 
occasionally grown in gardens, and is 
very showy. These comprise all that 
are worth cultivating as ornamental 
plants, and require precisely the same 
treatment. The seed should be sown in 
March on a gentle hot-bed, and after 
gradually inuring the plants to the air 
they may be transplanted to the borders 
in May, where they soon arrive at a 
blooming state and continue so all the 
summer. 
TECOMA (Jussieu.) Nat. Order 
Bignoniacece. A genus of fast-growing 
climbers, with ample deep-green foliage 
and large orange or yellow flowers. T. 
radicans, or Bignonia radicans is well 
adapted for covering walls in the open 
air, being quite hardy and a rapid 
grower; its flowers are large, tubular, 
and a brilliant orange. T. ccipensis, T. 
Jasminioides, and T. mollis are fine ob¬ 
jects trained to the back wall or rafters 
of the greenhouse ; and in a similar posi¬ 
tion in the stove, T. pentapkylla, T. 
rospfolia, T. splendula, and T. stems are 
objects of great beauty. All of them 
grow well in rich loam, lightened with 
about a third of its quantity of fibrous 
peat. 
TELOPEA (R. Brown.) Nat. Ord. 
Proteaceee. T. speciosissima, on account 
of its glowing scarlet flowers, is a plant 
deserving to lie in every collection : the 
name was suggested by the great dis¬ 
tance at which its blossoms are seen in 
its native state. Being derived from 
New South Wales it requires green¬ 
house treatment, and should have abun¬ 
dance of air and water in the summer ; 
the soil for it should be composed of 
equal quantities of turfy peat, loam, and 
sharp sand; the pots should be well 
drained, and the plant never allowed to 
flag for want of water. 
TESTUMNARIA ( Salisbury. ) 
Nat. Ord. Dioscoraceee. The two species 
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