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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



\_ March, 



very large supplies have to be jirovided to meet 

 the ovci^growing requirements for this now pop- 

 ular plant. I was ao struck with the efVect of the 

 fine plants noted above that T obtained a few, 

 and nothing in my garden has afVorded me more 

 pleasure than my collection of Ivies, and few 

 plants are more admired by my friends and visit- 

 ors. I have the satisfaction, too, of feeling that 

 they are so safely established that no weather 

 will injure them, but that they will improve year 

 by year with a minimum share of attention being 

 bestowed on them. Some sorts are slow grow- 

 ers, but that is an advantage for many purposes 

 of decoration, admitting the plants to places 

 where luxuriant growers would be quite unsuit- 

 able. — Jounxtl of norticulturc. 



L.vURENTi.v cAHXosi'i..\. — Under this name the 

 Botanical Maijazine figures a pretty Californian 

 annual, and gives the following account of it: "A 

 very elegant little annual, native of muddy places 

 in Sierra and Indian valleys in California, and 

 thence, north-eastward, to Wyoming Territory 

 (A. Gray). It is remarkable as being the only 

 American example of the genus Laurentia, of 

 which ten species are known, the rest being na- 

 tives of South Africa and the Mediterranean re- 

 gion. The cultivated specimens differ widely 

 from the native in habit and appearance, the 

 native ones being shorter, with very succulent 

 and indeed thickened stems, and having flowers 

 not one-quarter the size of the cultivated ones. 

 L. carnosula was raised from Californian seed by 

 Mr. Thompson of Ipswich, who flowered the spe- 

 cimen here figured in July, 1875." 



QUERIES. 



Planting Pykacantha.— M. N., Asheville, N. 

 C. We suppose the Dwarf Pyracantha, or 



" White berried " Pyracantha, would live in 

 your district, though we have no direct knowl- 

 edge of that fact. It is hard to transplant unlesa 

 set deeper than before. Then it is very easy. 



Orkjin of the Weepin(; Yem.ow, or "Slip- 

 pery "Ei,m. — F N., Pittsburg, Pa., writes:— Is 

 this an English variety? Where did it originate? 

 This is a variety of the American Ulnius fulva. 

 Our impression is that the grafts were first dis- 

 tributed by Captain E. Beebe, formerly of Ga- 

 lena, 111. We are not quite sure, but think we 

 are indebted to that gentleman for our first 

 knowledge of it. 



ExocHORDA GRANDiFLORA. — W. F., Newark, 

 N. Y., says : — " I would like to ascertain what is 

 Exochorda grandiflora, but I can find no descrip- 

 tion of it in the Gardener'' a Monthly, nor Loudon, 

 nor any work I have." 



[It is described in the first volume of the Gar- 

 dener's Monthly, page 55. It was introduced by 

 Fortune, from China, and was first thought to be 

 a Spira?a and went sometimes as S. Fortuni and 

 S. grandiflora. But Hooker saw distinctions in 

 the fruit, and made a new genus— Exochorda — of 

 it. It is one of the most beautiful white flowered 

 shrubs of early Spring. — Ed. G. M.] 



A Beautiful Specimen of Euonymus. — A cor- 

 respondent from Amherst, Va., says : — " In the 

 XA&innmher oiihe Gardener's Monthly is a note 

 from the Gardener's Chronwle, where is men- 

 tioned the Euonymus bearing fruit. I have a 

 large one, 9 or 10 feet high, that has borne seed 

 profusely, and from which I have succeeded in 

 raising some new varieties, one especially with a 

 holly shaped leaf, which is very attractive." 



[This is evidently Euonymus Japonica, the 

 common evergreen Japan Burning Bush — but 

 still a very good specimen and one of the choice 

 little items that we like to read. — Ed. G. M.] 



KEEN laOUSE AND 



OUSE GARDENING. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



We must remember that gardening is not 

 merely the growing of a pretty flower. We 

 cannot have gardening without flowers, true, but 



the taste displayed in the arrangements and sur- 

 roundings is what constitutes the fine art. A 

 room or window full of flowers is a beautiful 

 sight ; but the pleasure is heightened tenfold 

 when some taste is displayed in the arrangement. 



