MAY IS, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



615 



A Formal Fbwer Garden at Wave Crest, Far Rocfcaway, Long Island. 



The garden is enclosed by a iirivet 

 hedge three feet high. The arches are 

 also ot privet and it is again seen in 

 the rounded specimens in the fore- 

 feiciind. Ihe privet arches are twelve 

 feet high and wide, formed of two 

 large specimens. The edges of the 

 beds in the garden are also ot privet, 

 kept trimmed down to a height of only 

 four inches. It is a remarkable illus- 

 tration of the adaptability of the 

 privet to take most any form desired 

 by the skillful gardener. The walks 

 in the garden are of hard brick. 



One ot the beds is planted with 

 Gardenia Fortunei, another with 

 Mme. Bruant heliotrope, others with 

 geraniums Mme. Joulin. Gertrude 

 Pierson, Gettysburg, La Favorite and 

 Mme. Bruant. The outside beds are 

 planted with roses, two with Presi- 

 dent Carnot and two with Kaiserin 

 Augusta Victoria. The wire arch in 

 the foreground is to be covered with 

 Marechal Niel. 



At the back, beyond the garden, is 

 seen a group of Norway maples, with 

 seals arranged under their shade. 



The entire grounds are .surrounded 

 by one ot the finest privet hedges on 

 Long Island. There is some 1,800 feet 

 of it, eight feet high, and all in splen- 



did condition. This hedge was plant- 

 ed some eight years ago by Mr. Mars- 

 den. It is trimmed once a week dur- 

 ing the summer season. R. 



NARCISSUS VICTORIA. 



After three years of trial this charm- 

 ing new narcissus has proved to be ot 

 great value, being extremely well 

 adapted for early forcing. It is a well- 

 known fact that the Narcissus bicolor 

 forms, to which N. Victoria belongs, 

 do not force quite as readily as the 

 yellow trumpets, such as Henry Irving. 

 Ard Righ, Spurius, coronatus, etc. To 

 give them a good trial I potted the 

 former, also N. Empress, N. Hors- 

 fleldi, and N. Victoria, early last au- 

 aumn plunged them in the open, and 

 on about the 15th of January they 

 were all brought into the greenhouse. 

 N. Henry Irving and other early yellow 

 trumpets flowered in about eighteen 

 days with from 45 to 55 degrees. N. 

 Victoria was the next to bloom with 

 about three weeks, while the other 

 kinds of N. bicolor required four 

 weeks. While N. Victoria had well de- 

 veloped perfect blooms, those of Hors- 

 fieldi and Empress were not quite as 

 good in form. There is no doubt that 

 when N. Victoria is more plentiful — 



which will not be long, for I have no 

 doubt that in another five or six years' 

 time the price of the bulbs, forcing 

 size, will be as low as those of N. Em- 

 peror is at the present time— it will 

 be used by market growers. 



Narcissus bicolor Victoria is no 

 doubt an accidental cross between one 

 of the bicolors — probably N. bicolor 

 grandis (GrandeeJ — and the early- 

 flowering Narcissus variiformis. The 

 bulbs resemble those of N. bicolor 

 grandis, the foliage is broad, glaucous 

 green, and stronger than even that of 

 N. Emperor. The flower resembles 

 again, as far as shape is concerned, 

 that ot the late-flowering N. bicolor 

 grandis, but differs in the large size, 

 the beautifully frilled bright yellow 

 trumpet and very broad segments, 

 which are not of quite the same white- 

 ness of color, although the latter fault, 

 it any, is not so apparent when the 

 flowers are grown under glass. The 

 exterior is yellowish and sometimes 

 green, as in N. variiformis. It is bet- 

 ter adapted for pot culture than any 

 other trumpet narcissus, and at the 

 same time is a most vigorous, free- 

 flowering kind for out-of-door culture, 

 especially suited to the western and 

 southern parts of England, as the 



