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TEE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[ October, 



bc.iutifnl varieties. So at Mr. Bull's were many 

 beautiful ones, some of thorn quite new. We 

 arc indebted to liiin for tlie plate on the pre- 

 codinp I»^se, whii-h we found one of the best in 

 hi.-! collection ; it is called Ixora Rey;ina. The 

 color is a violet salmon. I.xora crocata is one 

 of the oldest and best known. 



CuRiou.s Effects of Gii.xFTiXG Coleuses. — Late 

 last Summer I grafted certain kinds of Coleus^ 

 the most remarkable of which is Duchess of 

 Edinburgh, grafted with Brilliant de Vaise and 

 Oolden Gem. I kept them during the Winter 

 partially at rest, and in February I potted them 

 and started them into growth on a gentle bottom 

 he;it. As soon as they had made fresh leaves 

 I found that Brilliant de Vaise had inoculated 

 the stock, the leaves on one shoot above and one 

 below the graft having become spotted and 

 mottled with dull yellow and reddish brown, 

 with an occasional flake or two of the magenta 

 rose-color of Duchess of Edinburgh, while Golden 

 Gem, on the same plant, remains unafiected. 

 Some time back I removed the top of the stock 

 which grew very vigorously, some leaves being 

 wholly green, others dark velvety erimson edged 

 with green, and mottled and blotched with 

 yellow and dull reddish-brown. Up to the 

 present time this plant has not altered. Of the 

 next two breaks which I took oft" and struck as 

 one would cuttings, one is almost the same as 

 Duchess of Edinburgh, with spots of yellow 

 here and there, and some of the leaves are very 

 beautiful, being pink, cream-color, and light 

 green ; this is the prettiest shoot, but the slowest 

 grower. The other is dark crimson edged with 

 green, and very much mottled with amber; this 

 is now becoming very attractive. I also grafted j 

 C. Brilliant de Vaise on C. elegans, which has a 

 yellowish-green ground heavily netted and 

 veined with bluish-crimson. This was also 

 inoculated, the leaves of the stock turning quite 

 green. I also grafted others, on one of which 

 I put five varieties, using C. Emile Chat6 for the 

 stock, and the following for grafts, viz. : — C Mer- 

 rimac, Lady Burrel, Duchess of Edinburgh, ' 

 ruber, and Beauty of Widmore, but as yet no 

 change has taken place ; they all exhibit equal 

 strength except the last, and that is on the 

 centre shoot of the stock. I find that Duchess 

 of Edinburgh, with its many and varied hues ' 

 of color, comes much brighter, and retains its 

 leaves much longer if grafted upon C. Souvenir 

 de Lierval. — R. H. B., in Gardener's Magazine. 



NEW OR BARE PLANTS. 



Doi'HLK Fi.owKKKi) Ci.VKKAiUAS. — After many 

 attempts, extending over almost half a century, 

 the well-known Cineraria has been produced 

 double. They were not very fine, however, in 

 the estimation of some cultivators, but we hear 

 that iin])rovement8 have been made which an- 

 other season will leave little to be desired by the 

 most fastidious. 



New VioLFrr — Belle de Chatenay. — This is the 

 latest novelty in Violets. It is not here yet, but 

 was raised in France, and has been advertised in 

 England. It is said to be sweet, pure white, 

 double, and to measure one inch across. 



ToRENiA FouRNERi. — Mr. Buist sends us a 

 plant in bloom of this beautiful new Torenia. 

 The old T. Asiatica has been popular and long 

 will continue to be, but this will divide the hon- 

 ors. The light portion is pure white in this, and 

 there is besides an orange spot. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Propagating the Calla Lily. — Miss M., 

 Brooklyn, desires " to know whether there is not 

 some more rapid way of increasing Callas than 

 by dividing the plant. In three years I have 

 onh^ been able to divide it twice, and I want 

 more to give to some friends." [When dried in 

 the Summer, as nurserymen dry them, in order 

 to get them to flower in the Winter, a large num- 

 ber of very small bulblets are produced, and in 

 this way a hundred may be had in three years. — 

 Ed. G. M.] 



Convolvulus Mauritanicus. — Mrs. J., Monroe, 

 Mo., sends this for name with the following 

 note : — " Can the Gardener's Monthly tell me the 

 name of the enclosed ? A spray from a trailer 

 that has sprung up in a hanging-basket, con- 

 taining Lysimachia nummularia and a lilac 

 Maurandia. It has leaves like the former, in 

 shape, but woolly and of a bluer green ; the 

 flower a silvery lavender color, and like a minia- 

 ture Convolvulus. Grows prolifically." 



Tabern^emontana. — Mrs. B. B. E. will find an 

 article on its culture from one of our corres- 

 pondents. If any further information is desired, 

 please send us another line. 



