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arc the stamens alst). It is of course, only a color form, but to 

 (listinti^uisli it \vc nia\- call it Trilliiiiu recurvaUim fcjrma 

 lutciim. 



CuLTixATixc. Trailing Arbutus. — It is commonly be- 

 lic\c(l that it is impossible to grow tlic trailing arbutus {Bpi- 

 yaca rcpcns)'\\\ the garden . This opinion has some founda- 

 tion in tact for an immense number of attempts have been 

 made to domesticate it without success. Until recently the 

 fact that this plant, like so many other heaths, prefers an acid 

 soil was not sufficiently appreciated. That the plant can be 

 iiuhiced to bloom in an ordinary flower-pot in the greenhouse 

 by giving it the proper soil conditions, is by this time well 

 ktiown. .Ml that seems necessary is to pot it in an acid soil 

 of the "upland peat" type, formed from the decay of oak 

 leaves. Last August it occurred to the editor of this mag- 

 azine to make another attempt to grow arbutus in the garden. 

 A small clump of the plant w^as dug up in Michigan and trans- 

 ferred without delay to a spot on the north side of a wall 

 where the soil is sand mixed with humus from an upland 

 oak wood, it is gratifying to record that the plants bedded 

 with oak leaves, came through the recent rather trying winter 

 unharmed and have since produced an abundance of blossoms. 

 Reviewing this experiment, it seems quite likely that pro- 

 tecting the plants from the sun in the winter is quite as import- 

 ant as the character of the soil in determing their survival. 



Color of Carolina Anemonk. — That diminutive and 

 early flow'ering species of anemone known as A Caroliniaua 

 is apparently not a familiar plant to the makers of popular 

 bo(^ks on wild flowers ; at least not a single volume that we 

 crm find, even mentions it. It is. however, a very attractive 

 little plant with roundish leaves ternately divided and the 

 divisions again variously toothed and lobed. From the midst 



