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THE OARDENEWS MONTHLY 



[^June, 



Too much praise ommot be given to it; and a 

 few words mi its cultivation may be of interest 

 to your readers. 



At the Cincinnati Exposition in 1875, a plant 

 was exhibited some three feet in diameter. This 

 plant, some fifteen months previous, was grow- 

 ing in a two and a half inch pot. This will 

 show how quickly fine specimens can be grown, 

 under proper treatment. This Fern, unlike 

 most others, makes a rapid growth through the 

 Winter. A temperature of 00° must be kept up, 

 and the plants not allowed to become dry at the 

 roots or syringed overhead. It requires a com- 

 post consisting of turfy loam and fibry peat, 

 broken up roughly, with a little sand and broken 

 charcoal. It is essential that good drainage be 

 secured, filling the pots about one-third of their 

 depth with crocks, with a layer of rough peat 

 over them. • Keep a liberal supply of tepid water 

 at the roots. Shade is necessary, and a moist 

 atmosphere. 



The double white Primula at this season of 

 the 3'ear needs special attention. Where propa- 

 gation is desired, the general plan is to root and 

 divide them in September, but plants so propa- 

 gated are too small to produce many flowers the 

 coming Winter, so I will give my plan of rooting 

 them in early Spring: 



In February the bare stems of the plants are 

 carefully cleaned, the stem of all side shoots cut 

 half way through, down as near the soil as pos- 

 sible, a layer of moss placed around the edge of 

 the pots and the centre filled in with sifted leaf 

 soil and sand, so as to cover the bare stems. 

 Young roots are soon produced, and by March 

 16th all the side shoots will be well rooted and 

 ready for dividing. Through the Summer the 

 plants are grown in frames facing the north and 

 placed on ashes, as a security against worms. 

 The plants are potted in sifted soil, composed 

 of friable loam and leaf mould in equal pro- 

 portions, with a liberal allowance of sand. A 

 porous soil is of the utmost importance, the 

 delicate, silky roots being unable to penetrate 

 a clammy compound, let its richness be ever so 

 inviting. 



HOT WATER ON INSECTS. 



It may, perhaps, be of some value to say to 

 your readers, that for a number of years I have 

 been in the habit of trying various means to kill 



insects that I collect for cabinet specimens, and 

 that the best remedy I have yet tried is hoi water, 

 or even heated air. 



Having the insects confined in a stout glass 

 collecting bottle, I gradually immerse this in 

 hot water, or stand it in the oven of a liot stove 

 on a brick, and I find that life is destroyed 

 quicker and more effectually in this manner 

 than by any other means I have yet employed. 

 True, strychnia or prussic acid might be more 

 sudden in its effects, but these thines are too 

 dangerous to handle for common or frequent 

 usage. The water need not even be hot enough 

 to scald; and doubtless there are many plants, 

 shrubs, trees and vines, hardy enough to bear 

 water hot enough to kill insects, without being 

 in anywise injured by it themselves. 



THE NEW SO-CALLED HYBRID TEA ROSE, 

 "BEAUTY OF GLAZENWOOD." 



Who would have suspected that the above 

 great novelty in the Rose line, which has been 

 advertised in English catalogues and horticul- 

 tural publications in such glowing terras, would 

 turn out now to be nothing less than our old 

 acquaintance, "Fortune's double yellow," but so, 

 I see, have the Judges of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society in London just decided. Indeed, 

 it has been somewhat foreshadowed; Eugene 

 Verdier in his last Fall Trade Circular of new 

 Roses, expresses his opinion, already, that it was 

 a deception. Having grown the Fortune's dou- 

 ble yellow Rose now for about eighteen yeai-s, I 

 append below a description for the benefit of 

 your readers, who are unacquainted with it. 



Introduced by Robert Fortune from China 

 twenty or more years ago, it attracted at first 

 considerable attention by its rich yellow color, 

 tinge:! with carmine (but not striped scarlet). 

 Flowers large, semi-double, of strong climbing 

 proclivities, but only an annual bloomer, and 

 not very hardy in the Middle or Northern States. 

 It is now but rarely demanded. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Clematis calycina. — One of the most ex- 

 quisite plants for wreaths or for adorning dresses 

 is, undoubtedly, Clematis calycina. Its tufts of 



