Allamanda

Allamanda cathartica. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Rich loamy soil.

Allantodia

Five species. Green-house herbaceous plants. Division. Loamy peat.

Alleys

Alleys are of two kinds. 1. The narrow walks which divide the compartments of the kitchen garden; and 2. Narrow walks in shrubberies and pleasure-grounds, closely bounded and overshadowed by the shrubs and trees.

Allionia

Three species. Hardy annuals. Seeds. Sandy peat or loam.

Allium

Garlic or onion tribe. 126 species. Hardy bulbous plants. Offsets or seed. Common soil.

Allseed

Poly carpon.

Allspice

Calycanthus.

Allspice-Tree

Pimenta.

Almond

Amygdalus.

Alnus

Alder. Nineteen species. Hardy deciduous trees. Layers or seeds. Moist soil.

Aloe

Forty-seven species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Suckers. Sandy loam and peat.

Alomia

Alomia Ageratoides. Half-hardy dwarf evergreen plant. Cuttings. Sandy loam.

Alonsoa

Five species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs, except A. cau-lialata, which is half-hardy. Cuttings or seeds. Rich mould.

Aloysia

Aloysia citriodora. Green-house deciduous shrub. Cuttings or seeds. Rich mould.

Alpinia

Twenty-five specie3. Stove herbaceous perennials. Division. Rich sandy soil.

Alsine

Chickweed. Six species. Hardy annuals. Seeds. Common soil.

Alsodeia

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

Alstonia

Two species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Rich light soil.

Alternanthera

Twelve species. Stove herbaceous; except A. frutescens, which is a green-house evergreen. Cuttings. Light rich soil.

Altiaea

Marsh mallow. Seventeen 6pecies. Hardy plants. Division or seed. Common soil.

Altingia

Two species. Greenhouse evergreen trees. Cuttings and seeds. Deep loamy soil.

Alysicarpus

Two species. Stove herbaceous perennials. Seeds, and root division. Rich light soil.

Alyssum

Twenty-one species. All hardy plants. Seeds, cuttings, and division. Common soil.

Alyxia

Five species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy loam.

Alzatea

Alzatea verticillata. Greenhouse evergreen tree. Root cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.

Amaranthus

Eighteen species. Hardy annuals. Seed. Rich garden soil.

Amaryllis

Seventy-six species, and many varieties. A. aulica and belladonna are hardy; the others, a few green-house, but mostly hot-house bulbs.

A (Vallota) purpurea. "Pot in good-sized pots, in a mixture of loam, sandy peat, and leafmould, being merely kept in a green-house, with but little water through the winter, and about May set in the open air in pans of water, under a south wall, where about June or July they throw up their splendid scarlet flowers, which last fully a week or more. They would be very ornamental plunged at the side of a warm sandy pond, forming a good contrast with Crinum, capense, Nymphaea alba, etc. About October they are removed into winter quarters, increase pretty fast by offsets, taken off and fresh potted in April, and treated as the parent bulbs, which should at that time have their decayed outer skin removed." - Gard. Chron.