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some in every sense. It will grow anywhere and everywhere, hut 

 from its rapidity of growth does not like wind ; it will send its under- 

 ground stems through a brick wall, and the only difficulty with it is 

 to keep it at home ; it would soon cover an acre if left to itself; it 

 should be treated something like a raspberry, have all suckers 

 removed every year from around the established plant. However, 

 in wilderness scenes, and in the sloven's garden, it may be left to 

 itself. It is peculiarly adapted for the margin of lakes and water- 

 scenes, or any wet place where nothing else perhaps would grow. 

 The plant is certainly the king of the Polygonums. Of course, the 

 young rising steins are those eaten in Japan. 



THE WHITE-WASH TKEE. 



Whatever can that be ? I hear somebody ask with surprise. 

 This is a very singular member of the Rubus, or bramble family. 

 Rubus leucoclermis, an upright growing, branching kind of raspberry, 

 or bramble, not unlike in habit to Rubus suh-erectus, growing about 

 six feet high ; stems numerous, arching towards the extremity, and 

 as white as if they had been white-washed, as we sometimes see 

 apple-trees in orchards. Planted in the general shrubbery it at 

 once commands attention by its white stems and branches standing 

 out and relieving the masses of green about it ; it is just the sort of 

 plant to make one step out of the way to see whatever it can be, 

 and is, to say the least, very singular ; and among masses of ever- 

 greens is as telling as the aueuba or golden holly. Beautiful foliaged 

 plants are much sought after ; beautiful barked trees are not much 

 known, or, perhaps, cared for, but some, such as the golden barked 

 ash and Acer Pennsylvania, are very handsome ; but Rubus leuco- 

 dermis is the handsomest barked shrub I have ever seen. 



EPIPHTLLUM TRUNCATUM CULTURE. 



BY WILLIAM COLE, 

 Head Gardener, Ealing Park, Middlesex. 



.HERE is no necessity for a long treatise upon the culti- 

 vation of the Epiphyllum, for all that is necessary to be 

 said will come into a small compass. I shall simply 

 detail my system of growing these things, and if there 

 is nothing new in this communication, it will at least 

 be truthful, and to those who know little about their habits and re- 

 quirements, valuable, because, by faithfully following the directions 

 given herein, there will be no fear of failure. 



In some respects the Epiphyllums are analogous to the orchids, 

 and a good orchid grower ought to be able to handle them success- 

 fully. To grow and flower either of these subjects well, they must 

 have a season of growth and a season of rest in a more marked manner 

 than the generality of flowering plants. The Epiphyllums can be 



