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late leaflets, with similar leaflets scattered up the 

 Btem till they run into flower bracts, from each 

 of which hangs a blossom. I have counted 

 nineteen blossoms on a single stem, and one 

 remarkable group I found, consisted of more 

 than 100 plants, waving and glittering in the 

 sunlight most beautifully. 



The plant of F. parviflora is similar to 

 F. lanceolata, but not so tall, and prefers moist, 

 shady hill-sides ; its flowers are saucer shaped, 

 or rather wheel shaped, sometimes one and a 

 half inches in diameter. The stalks seldom bear 

 more than ten flowers. The bulbs of each are of 

 a waxy-white appearance, of conical shape, with 

 a flange-like base, and bear on their sides numer- 

 ous bulblets from the size of a grain of.rice to a 

 pea. Those of F. lanceolata frequently are an- 

 gled and compressed curiously by the coarse 

 gravel found where they grow. The bulbs are 

 sometimes two inches in diameter, though of- 

 tener one. 



THE VIBURNUM PLICATUM. 



BY GEN. W. H. NOBLE. 



I see that nurserymen say this plant (the new 

 Snowball), is very difl&cult to propagate. I have 

 not found it so. I raised three fine plants from 

 one small layer. But I think it was a two year 

 old shoot which I laid down, and my impression 

 is that no shoots came up till the second year. 

 I think if two year old shoots are laid down, or 

 if any shoot remains layered two years, well 

 formed roots will result. A nurseryman here 

 tells me he has had like experience. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The Honey Locust in Canada. — This is said 

 by the Toronto Globe to be rather too tender in 

 their severe Winters to make a good hedge plant 

 in Canada. 



Abij:s Engelmannii. — The English papers con- 

 tinue to discuss th^ differences between Abies 

 Engelmannii and Abies Menziesii. Some say 

 that " because it pushes out earlier than Abies 

 Menziesii, A. Engelmanii is unfitted anywhere 

 for the north of Europe." We know of a speci- 

 men which is undoubtedly A. Engehnannii, be- 

 cause it was taken from an altitude of some two 

 miles up the mountain, where A. Menziesii 



does not grow, and which we examined in com- 

 pany with Dr. Parry himself recently, and which 

 we are satisfied is hardy enough for any part of 

 Europe. 



The Daffodil. — The old folks around Phila- 

 delphia call this "butter and eggs," chiefly in 

 connection with the double kinds. There is, 

 after all, very little beauty in a double daff"odil. 

 In some flowers the florists have added beauty 

 by "doubling" them up. But the single daffodil 

 is much handsomer than its progeny. 



A Large Collection of Gladiolus. — We have 

 a beautiful colored plate of Gladiolus from 

 Messrs. Vilmorin, of Paris. This firm exhibited 

 twelve hundred spikes, ten of a kind, at one of 

 the London shows last year. 



Double Blossom Peaches.— We saw a group 

 this Spring formed of four ornamental peaches, 

 and nothing could be more beautiful. It had 

 the blood-leaved and double crimson for oppo- 

 sites, and the double rose and double white to 

 cross hands. These beautiful plants deserve 

 wider encouragement. 



The Japan Judas Tree. — This, introduced a 

 few years ago, is becoming common in oyr gar- 

 dens. It does not grow so strong as the Ameri- 

 can or European species, but is more floriferous, 

 and is much brighter in color. The leaves are 

 more " artistic." 



Hardy Ericas. — Amongst hardy ericaceous 

 plants, we have no prettier or more floriferous 

 representative than this European Heath. Its 

 flowers are rosy, most profusely borne, and ap- 

 pearing in April, last through May. It loves 

 partial shade, and is grateful for a peaty soil, 

 but neither is imperative, particularly the latter, 

 for it grows well in friable loam, and it needs no 

 covering in Winter. Its beauty and hardihood 

 should increase its patronage. E. vagans and 

 E. (Calluna) vulgaris also stands well, but a box 

 or frame around it, with a few dry leaves thrown 

 in, helps it to keep a good appearance till the 

 Spring comes. 



Rhododendrons at Boston.— We understand 

 that the Rhododendrons and Azaleas of Mr. 

 Hunnewell were particularly fine in flower this 

 season. Mr. H. has done more than any one in 

 America to show how to make these beautiful 

 native flowers successful in cultivation. 



Ornamental Hawthorns. — Iowa possesses se- 

 veral varieties of native Hawthorns, or Thorn- 



