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TUB GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



\^ April, 



New Rosk, Beauty of Gf^azenwood. — Mr. 

 Saul has a beautiful rhroino in liis Catal<)jj;uo. 

 It is a yellow bud striped with criiusou. 



The Hepatica. — A remarkably beautiful blue 

 variety of our uative Hepatica or Liverwort, is 

 figured iu the Belykin Horticullnral Revieiv. Our 

 lovers of herbaceous |)hiuts should examine our 

 woods for new forms, — for there are jjenerally as 

 good varieties from seeds sown by nature, as by 

 the gardener, but they get crowded out. There 

 are under culture, rose colored and white varie- 

 ties, and double ones of all, though the double 

 white seem very scarce. 



QUERIES. 



Magxolias.— W. F. B. says : — " I notice in the 

 Gardener's Monthly for February, an inquiry 

 about grafting the Magnolia glauca on the M. acu- 

 minata. If you refer to the Horticulturist for 

 1857, p. 218, you will find a very interesting arti- 

 cle from J. P. Kirtland, of Cleveland, Ohio, on 

 the acuminata as a stock. I believe the article 

 promised to follow on the methods of grafting, 

 never appeared." 



LiiA' Culture.— We have the following letter 

 from Messrs. Krelage it Sons, of Haarlem, Hol- 

 land. As we could not lay our hands on the 

 lists they refer to, we publish with pleasure their 

 letter instead. 



" In the Febni.uy luuiibcr of your Monthly, at 

 l)age 37, you give a note on a Belgium Lily cata- 

 logue (we suppose it is Mr. Fraelmen's) which 

 contains 75 sorts and three of them ofTered by the 

 1()(M1. Allow us to observe that we have sent 

 you this Autumn our special list of Lilies, con- 

 taining about 250 species and varieties, also 

 quoted per piece, per dozen, per lUO and per 

 1000,and among which there are about40 quoted 

 by the 1000. Our collection of Lilies is cer- 

 tainly the largest and best assorted nursery col- 

 lection in Euroi)e if not in the world. We 

 edited this Autunni in English (with special 

 American edition), French and German, a pro- 

 visiona,l descriptive list, and we find that our 

 notes have already been copied in several other 

 lists. We sent you a copy of this set of cata- 

 logues ( 320 a, 321 a, 322 a, 323 a ); perhaps you 

 will find it useful to give a note of them in your 

 paper. To the trade we publish separate cata- 

 logue. Trade prices of Lilies for America are 

 to be found in 318 a." 



pREEN fMoUSE AND MOUSE GARDENING. 



COMMUNICA 7 JONS. 



RHODODENDRON HOUSE. 



BY S. B. PAKSOXS, FLUSHING, LONG ISLAND. 



Some months since I expressed in your columns 

 my opinion based upon an experience of some 

 thirty years, that scarcely a dozen sorts of Rho- 

 dodendrons could be pronounced absolutely 

 hardy under all circumstances, and that many 

 of the high colors exhibited at Philadelphia were 

 not among those sorts. 



To that opinion I still adhere, notwithstanding 

 an occasional success with highly colored sorts 

 in ravines and sheltered places. Exceptions do 

 not prove the rule, and the rule is that those 



sorts are not in this country reliable under all 

 circumstances. My assertion is strengthened by 

 the utterances and correspondence of friends 

 in different sections who coincide with me in 

 this position, and whose history of Rhododen- 

 dron importations is a history of disappointments. 

 The few sorts Avhich are perfectly hardy give us 

 a variety of color and many charms, but we can- 

 not afford to lose the exquisite tints which 

 belong to a class formed by Concessum, Album, 

 Lady Cathcart and others. 



I am frequently asked, how then can these be 

 enjoyed ? Simply by protection in some shape, 

 and this can be given most satisfactorily by a 

 cheap house. No artificial heat is required, and 

 only a protection from exciting sun and cold 

 wind. I will describe the cheapest form I know; 



