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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[ October, 



Perhaps the best way to preserve them is to lift 

 them out before tlie Winter seta in, cut away the 

 unripe parts, set them all in thickly on the side 

 of a sloping piece of ground, where the water 

 will run away, and cover with earth all the plant, 

 root and branch. If one has not a sloping piece 

 of ground, make a little hillock so that the water 

 will drain away. This refers to any half hardy 

 plant that has moderately firm wood, pome- 

 granates or crape myrtles for instance. 



The Mocassin Flower.— They say in England 

 that we shall soon have none of this beautiful 

 flower in our woods. Some vandal has been 

 scouring the country and seu'Ung roots there by 

 the wagon load, selling them by auction for 

 "what they will fetch," which was about a 

 \penny apiece, hardly enough to pay freight. 

 Perhaps such vandalism will cure itself. 



Mademoiselle Marie Finger Rose.— This was 

 noticed favorably in our columns last year. It 

 lias been thought identical with Mademoiselle 

 Eugenie Verdier, but it is now said to be a 

 darker Rose, and may be distinguished by being 

 more spiny than Miss Verdier. 



Hardy Bulbs.— The following are very beau- 

 tiful, yet seldom met with : 



Allium molle, Anthericum Liliago, Arum 

 Dracunculus, Bulbocodium vernum, Fritillaria 

 Meleagris, Leucojum sestivum, Scilla amana, 

 Scilla campanulata, Scilla Frazeri, Triteleia uni- 

 •jlora, Tulipa sylvestris. 



Distinct Phloxes.— So many of the new ones 

 resemble the old, that it is difficult to name 

 distinct kinds. But, on a recent visit to Miller & 

 Hayes, August Riviere and Eugene Verdier 

 were really novel in shade and beautiful, and 

 will please all lovers of hardy Phloxes who may 

 not already have them. 



'. The^M>baDO Menzies SPRtTCE.— It has been 

 suggested by English nurserymen that the fine 

 form of Abies Menziesii which grows in Col- 

 orado, should be called Abies Menziesii Parry- 

 ana. We do not see the necessity of these long 

 Latin names for mere varieties, and should 

 think that Colorado Menzies Spruce would be 

 quite sufficient, and certainly more expressive. 

 This is what Mr. Sargent called it, who was the 

 first to point out in public the diflference, and 

 should by all horticultural courtesy be allowed 

 to give his own name, without having it burden- 

 ed with hosts of synonyms.. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Improved Fox Glove.— The Fox Glove, after 

 having bloomed and kept itself true in English 

 woods and fence corners for thousands of years, 

 has been "broken" by the florists into innu- 

 merable varieties. At St. Clare the writer of this 

 saw many of these new forms. Mr. Vietch reports 

 that there are even hybrids said to be raised 

 between it and the Gloxinia, but this report may 

 have arisen because of one variety having been 

 named " Gloxiniseflora." 



Callirrhoe Macrorrhize. — The Callirrhoes 

 are among the most beautiful of our hardy wild 

 flowers, and are much appreciated in English 

 gardens. They belong to the Mallow family, 

 and have flowers of various vermilion shades. 

 A white variety of the one above noted has 

 appeared in English gardens, of which Mr. 

 Thompson thus speaks in the London Garden:- 



No white form of any species of this favorite 

 genus of Malvaceoas plants has hitherto been 

 discovered; the present introduction has, there- 

 fore, some claim to nctice on the score of novelty, 

 apart from its intrinsic merits, which are con- 

 siderable. It is of very neat habit of growth, 

 prod'acing from a tap 'root, which ultimately 

 attains some size, an erect stem from IJ ft. to 

 2j ft. h^h, which bears a corymbose raceme of 

 pure w^bite flowers, on long, naked foot-stalks, 

 articulated near the summit, the corolla being 

 rather more than an inch across, and the calyx 

 without the involucral leafliets, which occur in 

 some other species of this genus. The foliage, 

 mostly radical, is cordate in form, with crenate 

 margins and long-stalked. The plant appears 

 to occur in several shades of color, varying from 

 rosy-purple ti» pale rose and white. Sown early, 

 it will bloom the first year. It is a native of 

 the Southwestern United States. 



Hybrid Aquilegia Chrysantha. — When the 

 Yellow Colambine was first introduced, we ad- 

 vised our readers to take it in hand and hybridize 

 it with the older races, and thus introduce a new 

 breed. We have not heard that any one has 

 adopted this suggestion, but an English gentle- 

 man has, and raised some beautiful things. 

 He will, probably, get "lots of money." It is 

 strange that the proverbial sharp "Yankee" 

 lets these chances slip. 



Idesia polycarpa.— We have before spoken 

 of this new Japan tree. A plant was imported 

 for the Centennial collection in Fairmount Park» 



