THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



midnight; but this fall we discovered that in 

 cool weather they will keep open until nearly 

 10 o'clock ill the morning. This makes this 

 plant still more valuable. It is said that a tem- 

 perature of 60° is required to keep it f;ro\ving 

 during winter, but witli us it has already witli- 

 «tood a temjierature of 40°, without auy injury 

 ■whatever. 



Hyacinths in Water. 



See that the water in your Hyacinth glasses is 

 tip to the right height ; and renew it if it should 

 «mell offensive. 



Hyacinths and Tulips in pots shoukl be brouglit 

 in the liouse towards tlie end of this mouth. 

 Keep on planting tliem at intervals so as to pro- 

 long the season of bloom. 



Caladiums 

 Should now be dried off, shaken out of their 

 pots, and kept iu sand or sawdust in a warm 

 place. 



Amaryllis. 



We believe they will bloom better if not com- 

 pletely dried off during winter. By placing 

 them in a cellar where frost will not touch them, 

 and giving them water just once a week, the roots 

 will keep fresh and plump, aud strong flower 

 «pikes assured. 



Cactus 

 Should at this season of the year be gradually 

 dried off. Just give them water once a week 

 until January, and then stop altogether. Place 

 "them in the sunniest place at hand, so that the 

 wood may be well ripened; this is essential to 

 insure flowering. 



Young plants of Night-booming Cereus may be 

 kept growing as long as they waut; so long as 

 they do, give them water regularly. 



Geraniums 

 That have stood outside, and have been kept 

 dry, may be brought in, ami if tlie to]> soil be 

 scraped off, and some cow manure put in the 

 place of it, they will bloom finely all winter. 



Spikeala Japonica. (Astilba Jap.) 



Is a splendid plant for forcing in the green- 

 house, where it will produce beautiful sprays of 

 silvery white flowers during February and March. 

 It is perfectly hardy, and while it would be de- 

 sirable to leave some plants in the beds to bloom 

 in summer, we would also recommend the lifting 

 of some for winter blooming. 



Poly'antha Roses. 



The Polyantha Knse came originally from 

 Japan, but some exquisite new varieties are in- 

 troduced from Euro|ie. They are exceedingly 

 beautiful, deliciously sweet, and among the most 

 constant and profuse bloomers we have. The 

 plants are of low, compact growth, and quite 

 hardy. Our illustration can give but a f;iint idea 

 of their charming beauty, we cordially recom- 

 mend them to ail lovers of rare and beautiful 

 roses, and besides they are capital winter 

 bloomers. 



Euphorbia Splendens. 



A plant that always attracts attention by reason 

 of its peculiar growth. The branches are of a 

 light gray color and j>rofusely covered with sharp 

 spines, half an inch lon^'. The leaves, although 

 not very numerous, are of a pleasing green, which 

 contrasts beautifully with the clusters of vermil- 

 ion colored flowers. It blooms abundantly ; 

 commencing now, aud lasting until next May. 

 Some people train it on a vine in the form of a 

 crown, and call it "Crown of Thorns." Trained 

 in balloon form, it makes a nice ornament. 

 Although some may find it objectionable on 

 account of the spines, they re.ally are an attnic- 

 tive feature. In the spring, cuttings strike root 

 readily if allowed to dry for a week or so, other- 

 wise they are apt to rot. 



Primroses. 



To keep a sitting room cheerful, nothing is 

 required but a few plants of single and double 

 primroses. If kept near the glass, where it is 

 generally somewhat cool, they will keep on 

 blooming for a long while. It is too late now to 

 raise them, but your nearest florist will no doubt 

 have nice young plants coming in bloom, which 

 will just answer your purpose. Be careful not to 

 over water them, or they will surely rot at the 

 neck. 



Heliotrope. 



Is always necessary to make up a perfect bunch 

 •of flowers. In perfume nothing equals it ; and 

 the ease with which one can grow it, should be 

 an encouragement to lovers of flowers. A good 

 rich soil, plenty of sun and not too warm a place 

 is desirable. In the house it is often affected 

 with green fly, from which it should be kept free 

 by dipping in, or syringing the plant with tobacco 

 water, or diiuigating it. 



Poinsettia Tulcherrima. 



A fine lot of these when in bloom are a grand 

 sight. We cannot recummend them to any ex- 

 cept those who have a right warm jdace to grow 

 them in ; although when in bloom a somewhat 

 lower temperature will keep them in bloom lon- 

 ger. The flowers are really bracts, or a series of 

 leaves arranged in a cluster at the end of the up- 

 right branches. The color is of the most dazzling 

 scarlet, and wlien well-grown will measure 

 eighteen inches across. A white variety is very 

 handsome to contrast with the red. The double 

 Poinsettia is gorgeous in the extreme, ami will 

 last a long time in bloom. In conservatories 

 they can be used to great advantage by placing 

 among plants of smaller growth. 



EpiphY'LLUMS [Crab Cnctus). 



A very interesting plant, indeed, and one 

 which requires very little attention when not in 

 bloom. The flowers, which are now about to 

 expand, are of a very peculiar shape, looking 

 like some kind of a crimson bird, and of very 

 brilliant color. They are called Crab Cactus 

 because each section of a branch has very much 

 the appearance of the claws of a crab. 



Mahernia Odokata. 



\. very sweet scented, slender growing plant, 

 that will perfume a whole rorun. The flowers, 

 as shown in our illustration, are bell shaped, and 

 this, with its delicious fragrance, have given it 

 the name of Honey Bell, which it rightlv de- 

 serves. It is a genus of South .\frican plants, 

 thriving best in a warm, sunny house, and tjloom- 

 ing profu.sely during winter. Watering must 

 never be neglected, neither must good drainage. 

 In mild localities they are hardy, and are easily 

 grown in good turfy loam, with a little manure 

 and sand. 



THE HORTICITLTUBAL SOCIETY'S SECOND EX- 

 HIBITION. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will 

 give its second annual Chrysanthemum show in 

 Horticultural Hall, in the first week of Novem- 

 ber. Last year's show, which was given experi- 

 mentally, proved such a success that it was deter- 

 mined to make it an annual aS'air. It will be 

 o|ien to dealers, growers, and amateurs. A large 

 and fine collection of the popular plant is a-ssured, 

 and among the outside contributors is the largest 



grower in New York city. In proof of the 

 growing popularity of the Chrysanthemum it is 

 a fact that there are at present in London four- 

 teen societies devoted to the cultivation of that 

 flower. - 



from ^"Chicago Inter-Ocean," 



THE MYSTERY OP PLO'WERS. 



Curious Studies in the World of Vegetable 

 Beautv. 



The name of the Peony is derived from Peon, a cele- 

 brated Greek physician, who taught tlie Greeks that 

 this preily flowei- was of divine origin, emanating from 

 tiie light of the moon, and a valuable cure, therefore, 

 lor epilepsy, which was supposed to be a moon-struck 

 malady. The Peony was thought to have power over 

 the winds, to protect the harvest from storms, and to 

 avert tempests. 



The floral kingdom furnishes plants which flower un- 

 failingly on certain days, and superstition has seized on 

 this fact and associated some with the qualities of great 

 persons who happen to be born on the day tbey plant 

 flowers. The Cyelamon opens iu .Southern Europe OQ 

 St. Romold's Day, and is dedicated to this romantic re- 

 cluse, who abandoned a noble career for a monastery 

 because he witnessed his father kill a kinsman in a 

 duel. The Rose Bay Willow Herb the French called St. 

 .\nthony's Fire, because of its brilliant red hue, and its 

 having appeared first in the eleventh century, when the 

 plague of erysipelas wa.s raging, and accord to it the 

 powers of intercession with disease, which its patron. 

 St. Anthony, was believed to possess. 



The early Christians, attracted to some flowers by 

 their peculiar beauty, gathered a number of these into a 

 herbarium, and dedicated them to the Virgin Mary. 

 .Among those are the Snowdrop, the Lily of the Valley, 

 White DalTodil, White Rose. While Hyacinth, and White 

 Cliinatis. Lady's Finger, Ladys Slipper, Lady's Glove. 

 Marigold, Lady's Mantle, etc.. lo all of which supersti- 

 tniii attached qualities of purity and goodness, and con- 

 ferred these upon the wearer of any of these symbolical 

 flowers. The common Hollyhock is a corruption of holy 

 oak, and is reverenced iu parts of rural England, where 

 traditions percolate through centuries, because Cru- 

 saders brought it from the Holy Land. The modest, 

 shrinking Blue Bell is, despite these most opposite quali- 

 ties, a plant of war in the superstitious belief of the 

 same people. It is dedicated to St, Cieorge, their patron 

 sanit. By the-Freueh the white variety of this plant is, 

 in curious contrast, associated with the peaceful charac- 

 ter of a nun, and is called In rt'ligieuse des champs. 



The familiar " Balm of Gilead" is the name of a plant 

 who've nearest summer relation is our Acacia. In the 

 earliest ages it was celebrated by Pliny. Strabo, Tacitus, 

 and Justin, not alone for its medicinal qualities, but the 

 lofty spirit and dignity it.s meaning was supposed to in- 

 crease. The Queen of Sheba brought it to King Solo- 

 mon, and Cleopatra planted one species of it near Mat- 

 lara, which ripened into a slirul) celebrated by travelers 

 for ages afterwards. The Ea-stern Christians believed 

 the plant would grow only under the care of a Christian 

 gardener, and that were the bark incised by any Instru- 

 ment of metal, the flow of balsam would be corrupt. 

 LTiider their fostering care the plant grew as large as a 

 fir tree, and such was the respect that it exerted that 

 when Christianity spread into European courts, the 

 Balm of Gilead came to be mingled in the oil used at the 

 coronation of monarchs. The Coptic Christians had a 

 tradilion that when the Holy Family were leaving 

 Egypt to return to Judea, they stopped to lest at Mat- 

 rara and went from house to house begging a cup of 

 water, and were everywhere refused. Faint with thirst 

 and sorrow the Virgin Mary sat down under a Balm of 

 Gilead tree, and immediately a fountain sprang up be- 

 side her, and the tree rustled its leaves and fanned a 

 gentle breeze as the Mother and Child drank ot the 

 water and rested. , 



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