This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Pine Apple. Four species and many varieties. See Pine-Apple.
Anantherix viridis. Hardy perennial. Seed or division. Light rich soil.
Three species. Hardy biennials. Seed. Common soil.
Anastatica hierochuntina. Rose of Jericho. Half-hardy annual. Seed. Common soil.
Anchietea pyrifolia. Stove evergreen climber. Peat and loam.
Grias cauliflora.
Twenty-seven species. All hardy but A. capensis. This requires to be raised in a frame; the others may be sown in open borders.
Andersonia sprengeloides. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy peat.
Two species. Stove evergreen trees. Cuttings. Loam and peat.
Three species. Green-house bulbs. Offsets. Peat and sandy loam.
Twenty-nine species and many varieties Mostly hardy evergreens. A. buxifolia, fasciculata, jamaicensis, and rubiginosa are stove evergreens. A. hypnoides, japonica, ovalifolia, sinensis, and tetragona are half-hardy. The United States has contributed the larger portion of this interesting genus. Seed. Peat.
Eighteen species. Mostly hardy. Seed or division. Peat and turfy loam.
Nine species. Some hardy, others green-house plants. Seed and division. Common soil.
Eleven species. Stove and green-house. Division or seed. Peat and sandy loam.
Eleven species. Stove ferns. Division and seed. Light loam.
Four species. All hardy, including Fennel and Dill, which see.
Angelica-Tree, Aralia spinosa.
Angeonia salicdriccfolia. Stove herbaceous. Cuttings. Sandy rich loam.
Angianthus aureus. Green-house herbaceous. Division. Loam and peat.
See P/io-logophora.
Two species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat, sand, and loam.
Nine species. Stove epiphytes. Cuttings. Wood, or moss and potsherds, in baskets.
Three species. Half-hardy herbaceous. Offsets. Sandy peat.
Four species. Stove evergreen climbers. Division. Loam and peat.
Ania bicornis. Stove epiphyte. Offsets. Peat and potsherds.
Three species. Green-house herbaceous. Division. Sandy peat.
Anisacantha, divaricata. Green- house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Peat and loam.
Three species. Green-house bulbs. Offsets. Sandy soil.
Anise, {Tragium anisum.) Half-hardy annual, used for garnishing or seasoning. Sow during April in pots plunged in a hotbed; remove to a warm, light border in May. Thin the plants to six inches apart. The seed is ripe in August or September. It does not bear transplanting.
Amsekd-Tree, lllicivm anhahim.
Amsochilt:S camosa. Stove herbaceous. Cuttings. Rich light soil.
Fourspecies. Three are stove evergreens, and A. ovata, a stove annual. Division or seed. Light dry soil.
Anisopia horticola, is a beetle which often attacks the rose flowers about June. Its maggots live under turf, and feed on its roots.
 
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