1877.] 



AND HOBTIGULTURIST. 



99 



THE WHITE WATER LILY. (Nymphaea Odorata.) 



BY B. MANN, RANDOLPH, MASS. 



If lovers of flowers only knew how easily the 

 fragrant White Water Lily could be cultivated, 

 we are quite sure these Lilies would be grown 

 far more than many other less fragrant and 

 beautiful flowers that take more time and 

 trouble to cultivate. These Lilies once planted 

 in a pond or small stream (they will bloom more 

 profusely in shallow water) that does not entirely 

 dry up in Summer, will need no further care, 

 and will increase from year to year. People that 

 have not the facilities for growing them in ponds 

 and streams, can have their Lily gardens in tubs 

 and aquariums where they can admire and 

 gather the most fragrant and beautiful flower 

 that grows on land or water. 



CULTIVATION. 



In Tubs. — For a tub, take a strong barrel, free 

 from tar oil or salt, saw it in two, fill this one- 

 third full with fine black garden soil, or meadow 

 mud if handy, plant the roots in this mixture, 

 covering them two inches deep, add water gently 

 so as not to disturb the roots until the tub is 

 full. This is all thecareneeded— always keep the 

 tub full of water. Set this on a- brick or board 

 platform in any place you desire. The tubs with 

 their contents should be placed in a cellar dur- 

 ing the Winter, kept from frost, and not allowed 

 to entirely dry up. 



For Ponds and Streams — Tie a stone close to 

 the roots, large enough to sink it, drop this into 

 the pond or stream where you wish them to 

 grow. 



For Aquariums. — Put in five inches of fine 

 black loam, cover the roots one inch deep in 

 this, and sift on fine sand enough to entirely 

 cover the loam. 



MAGNOLIA GLAUCA. 



BY SAMUEL PARSONS, KISSENA NURSERIES, 

 ■FLUSHING, N. Y. 



In the February issue of the Gardener's 

 Monthly, I notice a very clear and definite an- 

 swer, in the affirmative, to a query concerning 

 the possibility of grafting Magnolia glauca on 

 M. acuminata stock. Your statement is un- 

 questionably correct, but since you do not seem 

 to rest your position on positive experience, I 

 should like to add a testimony that comes from 

 actual observation. 



For years, I have been accustomed to see 

 M. glauca grafted successfully on both acumin- 

 ata and tripetela, to the great advantage of 

 stateliness and general symmetry. Nor is it un- 

 natural that an alliance should be made with 

 facility in the case of two American species, when 

 Japanese and Chinese Magnolias do so well on 

 the same stock. Allow me to enter a plea for a 

 wider appreciation of this sweetest, and in some 

 senses best, of American Magnolias. No planta- 

 tion of shrubs can afl'ord to be without its fresh 

 and charming attractions. 



MAGNOLIA GLAUCA. 



BY T. C. MAXWELL, GENEVA, N. Y.« 



In the February number of the Gardener's 

 Monthly, G. W. T. asks in regard to the M. glauca 

 worked on M. acuminata, and you answer that 

 you " know of no cases," " but think it would do 

 well." Eemembering an article in the American 

 Journal of Horticulture by Dr. J. P. Kirtland, I 

 immediately turned to it, volume fix-st, page 177, 

 and found it so very interesting, I can but think 

 you will be glad to give it to your readers. Dr. K. 

 says: — "A glauca standing in my grounds, 

 started from a seed in 1842, is now (1S67) seven 

 feet high. The trunk eighteen inches above the 

 ground, measures six inches in circumference; 

 and its top extends into several lateral branches. 

 A dozen or two of inferior flowers are annually 

 produced. Its aspect is that of an old and de- 

 crepit shrub, unworthy of attention. 



" In beautiful contrast and contiguous to it, 

 may be seen another glauca, with a large and 

 spreading top, more than twenty-one feet high, 

 with a body thirty-seven inches in circumfer- 

 ence at its largest expansion. Its leaves and 

 flowers surpass the others in size, numbers and 

 perfection. During a period of about six weeks, 

 in the months of June and July, it puts forth 

 daily a profusion of pure white blossoms, the 

 neat and chaste appearance of which by day, 

 and the agreeable odor at evening, excite ad- 

 miration. At the approach of night, the per- 

 fume mingling with the foiling dews, is dissemin- 

 ated a great distance along a thronged public 

 thoroughfare, and elicits many exclamations of 

 wonder and surprise, uttered in as many varied 

 accents as Avere heard from the readers of the 

 epitaph of ' Poor Yorick.' This tree is probably 

 the largest specimen of the glauca in the Union, 

 certainly in the more northern States; and it 



