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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[.May, 



greeri holow the freezing i)oint, but the injury to 

 evergroens was grcjitcr than at any time through 

 tlie Wintor, wlien the thormomoter was iit zero. 



RosK Mm^.na Chauta. — A beautiful oolored 

 jilate of this rose in the Lonchm FlorUt and 

 Ponwlogij<t , represents it of a crimson rose color, 

 and moasuring,^!^ and a half inchex across. It 

 was raiseil l)y W. Paul & Son. 



LoNifKRA FRAGRANTissiMA. — There are few 

 things more beautiful than the ujiright honey- 

 auckles, especially the Tartarian. There arc 

 many varieties, with various shades of color in 

 the flowers and in the pretty berries which fol- 

 low. A species allied to these well known kinds 

 is Lonicera fragrantissima It is not only as 

 beautiful as any of the others as a bush, but the 

 flowers are as sweet as jasmine. We saw a fine 

 plant on the grounds of the late Alfred Cope, a 

 few years ago, and one in Baltimore, but it 

 iViust be scarce in the trade. 



Early Fi>owkring Plants. — With the return- 

 ing love for hardy herbaceous plants, it is well 

 to make notes of those which are the first to 

 flower. We noted this season that the rare 

 Fritillaria pudica is only a few days after the 

 common snowdrop. The Moss Pink, Phlox sub- 

 ulata, comes out a few days afterwards. Ceras- 

 tium arvense is but a short time after this, and 

 then comes Cerastium Biebersteinii. The Gar- 

 den has the following about Anemone fulgens : 



"This early and brilliant flower has been in 

 bloom in quantity m M. Henri Vilmorin's gar- 



den at N'crriferes, near Paris, for the past five 

 weeks. It is impossilde to over-estimate the 

 value of tliis plant as an early Spring, and even 

 a Winter flower in mild seasons. I have lately 

 had the opportunity of seeing in Paris some 

 vases solely filled with the cut flowers of this 

 Anemone, and the eflect of the flowers by artifi- 

 cial light was almost as fine as it is in the o]ien 

 ground in the sunlight." 



Lakok Sequoia GUiAXTicA. — IL is provoking to 

 read of the fine trees of these they have in Eng- 

 land, when we cainiot grow it here in ita native 

 country. The Journal of Horticidlure gives the 

 following account of some in that country : — 



" We are informed that the heioht of Wkl- 

 LiNGTONiA at Cotlands, Sidmouth, is 42 feet, the 

 circumference of its stem at its junction with 

 the ground being 10 feet 4 inches, circumference 

 of lowest branches 80 feet. The sizes of other 

 trees which have been forwarded to us are aa 

 follows : — A tree at Killerton 44 feet high, cir- 

 cumference of stem 10 feet; at Poltimore a tree 

 is 1)0 feet high ; a tree in the cemetery at Bath 

 is 40 feet, and one at Beauport near Battle 40 

 to 50 feet." 



The only place we ever knew it to do well 

 was at Ellwanger & Barry's, of Rochester, N. Y. 

 We shall be glad to know whether it still re- 

 mains satisfactory with them, and whether of 

 the hundreds that have been planted in the East 

 during the past twenty years, any one else has a 

 good specimen. 



'reen Mouse and Mouse Gardening. 



seasonable: bints. 



" L." of Cazenovia, New York, asks how she 

 shall treat palms that have been growing as 

 room plants all Winter, and for a list of palms 

 suited to window culture. As the question is a 

 seasonable one, we bring it in here. These palnvs 

 and indeed all leafy plants of a tropical leafy 

 character, do remakably well turned out of the 

 pots or tubs, and planted in the open ground 

 during Summer. A place exposed to the full 

 gun is the best, a.5 they rather like our Summer 



heats, and if a rather damp soil — one that is not 

 swampy however — can be selected for them, so 

 much the better. They " lift," as gardeners say, 

 very well in the Fall, and go on growing almost 

 as well, as if not taken out of the pots at all. 

 There is scarcely a hot-house plant of any kind, 

 that does not enjoy this planting out in the 

 ground in Summer time, and then they add so 

 much to the charm of the pleasure ground dur- 

 ing that season. It is no uncommon sight to see 

 half a dozen men tugging at a big aloe or some 

 other thing in a huge tub, and a ton of dirt, when 



