The cuttings, made of half-ripened shoots, should be inserted in sandy soil under glass.

Larix (Larch, Tamarack). Coniferæ.

Seeds should be kept dry over winter and planted early in spring. Shade the young plants. Varieties, as the weeping sorts, are worked upon common stocks. The grafting may be done by the whip method, out-doors early in spring. Rare sorts are sometimes veneer-grafted under glass.

Larkspur. See [Delphinium].

Lasiandra. Melastomaceæ.

Propagated by cuttings of the growing wood under glass.

Lasiopetalum. Sterculiaceæ.

Seeds. Make cuttings in spring of the half-ripened wood, and insert in sand, under glass.

Latania. See [Livistona].

Lathyrus (Sweet Pea, Vetchling). Leguminosæ.