Adenocarpus

Six species. A. foliolosus and frankenioides are evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy loam. The others are hardy deciduous shrubs. Seeds. Common garden soil.

Adenophora

Sixteen species. Hardy herbaceous perennials. Common garden soil. Peat and loam.

Adesmia

Eight species, of which A. viscosa is hardy. The others are green-house plants. A. viscosa and us-pallatensis are propagated by cuttings. The others from seed. All in sandy loam.

Adiantum

Maidenhair. Twenty-nine species. All green-house or stove plants, except A. capillus veneris and pubescens. They are hardy herbaceous perennials. Division. Loam and peat.

Adina

Adina globiflora. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.

Adumia

Adumia cirrhosa. Hardy climbing biennial. Seeds. Sandy loam.

Adonis

Thirteen species. All hardy. Seed. Common garden soil.

Aegiphila

Seven species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam and peat.

Aegle

Aegle marmelos. Bengal Quince. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam.

Aechmea

Three species. Stove perennials. Suckers. Loam, peat, and sand.

Aegochloa

Six species. All hardy annuals. Seeds. Light rich garden soil.

Aeollanthus

Aeollanthus suaveolens. Stove annual. Seeds. Sandy loam.

Aeonium

Aeonium, Youngianum. Greenhouse. Cuttings. Sandy loam.

Aeschynanthus

Two species. Stove epiphytes. Cuttings. Peat and potsherds, or wood.

Aesculus

Horse-chestnut. AE. glabra. (Grafts.) AE. hippocastanum, flore pleno. (Layers.) AE. hippocastanum, fol. argenteis. (Layers.) AE. hippocastanum variegatum. AE. ohiensis. AE. pallida. (Grafts.) AE. rubicunda. (Grafts.) All hardy deciduous trees. The common European horse-chestnut AE. hippocastanum, is a truly magnificent tree, at once grand from its magnitude and massy form, and beautiful when in bloom from being covered with large spikes of white and pink flowers, protruding beyond its elegant digitate leaves. Seeds (except where otherwise described). Common garden soil.

Aeranthes

Two species. Stove epiphytes. Division. Peat and potsherds, or wood.

Aerides

Aerides (air plant.) Nine species. All stove epiphytes. Cuttings, except A. cornutum, which is multiplied by root-divisions. Peat and potsherds, or wood.

Aerua

Two species. Stove herbaceous perennials. Cuttings. Rich moist soil.

Aescynomene

Eleven species. AE. viscidula a green-house, and AE. hispida a hardy annual, the rest stove plants. Seeds. Sandy loam.

Aethionema

Six species. All hardy. Seed or cuttings. Common soil.

Aethionia

Two species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Common soil.

African Almond

Brabejum.

African Fleabane

Tarcho-nanthus.

African Lily

Agapanthus.

African Marigold

Tagetes Evecta.

Agapanthus

African Lily. Three species. Nearly hardy bulbs. Common soil. Offsets.

Agastachys

Agastachys odorata. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam, peat, and sand.

Agathaea

Two species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Young cuttings. Loam and peat.

Agathophyllum

Agathophyllum aromaticum. Madagascar nutmeg. Stove evergreen tree. Cuttings. Peat or rich loam.