1878. 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



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]ook like some of the Orchids in shape, are of a 

 bright yellow color, and produced in umbels. 

 It flowers during the Summer months, keeping 

 a good while in bloom. 



FUMIGATING GREENHOUSES. 



BY H. W. HALES, RIDGEWOOD, N. J. 



This should always be done after smi-down or 

 in dull, cloudy weather, to avoid burning or 

 :scorching the plants. The fumigator which I 

 use is six inches in diameter, and is simply an 

 iron ring formed of tlu'ee-eigths of an inch 

 round iron; it stands on three legs (of same 

 material) each three inches high. One fumiga- 

 tor is sufficient for about 600 square feet of glass, 

 and the method of using is as follows : As much 

 wood shavings as can be held in the closed hand 

 is laid on the floor, (if the floor is of wood or any 

 inflamable material it will be necessary to lay a 

 piece of slate or tin first), and lighted, the fumi- 

 gator is then placed over it and a good sized 

 bimch of tobacco stems, wliich should be pre- 

 •viously moistened with water to prevent blazing, 

 on top. The greenhouse can then be shut up 

 tight, and the apparatus will then take care of 

 itself. This method is quite efl'ectual and does 

 not melt the operator to tears, which cannot be 

 ..said of fumigating as it is carried on in some 

 establishments. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



frame and kept well syringed, so as to make 

 good flowering bulbs for the following season." 



Some of om* Baltimore gardeners nmst know 

 how to flower them, as there were very fine 

 specimens in bloom at the exhibition of the 

 Maryland Horticultural Society, during the 

 meeting of the American Pomological Society. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Belladonna Lily. — A correspondent of the 

 Garden has the following answer to an inquiry : 



"• Amaryllis Belladonna for flowering in pots 

 should be treated somewhat the same as Val- 

 iota purpurea. After flowering it should have 

 plenty of water, and should be nearly shut up 

 in a close frame until it has made good flower- 

 ing bulbs for the next season \ then it should 

 be gradually dried oft'. It does best out of 

 doors, but to grow and flower it well the 

 bulbs should be planted about six inches 

 deep in a good rich border in the full sun, 

 where they may remain for years without being 

 transplanted, and will produce an abundance of 

 flowers. Amaryllis vittata should be treated 

 precisely the same as other Amaryllises. Xerines 

 also require nuich the same treatment as Ama- 

 ryllises; they flower chiefly in Autumn, and if 

 properly dried oft', the flowers are thrown up be- 

 fore the foliage. As soon as the flowering is 

 over, the plants should be placed in a close 



Azalea, Duke of Edinburg. — The Florist 

 and Pomologist has a colored plate of this. The 

 size is the cliief novelty, each flower being fom* 

 inches across. The color is brick red. 



Asparagus plu3I0SUs. — What is known in 

 the cut flower trade as "Smilax" is so popular 

 that the following note of a neighboring novelty 

 from the Gardener'' s C^;-o?«c?e, will prove interest- 

 ing. 



"An extremely elegant species of Asparagus, 

 rather widely distributed at the Cape and in 

 Natal, from which latter province it was intro- 

 duced to the nurseries of Messrs Yeitch by Mr. 

 Mudd. It is a climbing under-shrub, with very 

 numerous, slender, glabrous green spreading 

 branches. The true leaves are in the form of 

 minute deltoid scales with an acute ultimately 

 reflexed point. The cladodes, or false leaves, 

 are grouped in tufts, each one is from one-eighth 

 to one-quarter inch long, bristle-shaped, and fine- 

 ly pointed. The elegance of its finely-cut false 

 leaves rivalling or even excelling the most deli- 

 cately cut Fern, will render this plant a great 

 favorite, and for decorative purposes, bouquets, 

 &c., it will have the advantage of greater per- 

 sistence than Ferns. — M. T. M. 



ACALYPHA MACROPHYLLA. — A plant from 

 the South Sea Islands, belonging to the Order 

 Euphorbiacese, with foliage showing a great va- 

 riety of tints. Its stem and branches are furnish- 

 ed at short but regular intervals with exstipulate 

 leaves, having hairj'^ petioles from six to eight 

 inches long, from which the leafexpandsinto a 

 bold and broad blade of the obcordate acuminate 

 form , serrate and prominently veined. The leaves 

 attain a length of from twelve to fifteen inches, 

 with a breadth of from ten to twelve inches. The 

 coloring and markings of the leaves are exceed- 

 ingly varied, tints of red, 3-ellow, pink, brown , and 

 green, may all be found upon one plant. The col- 

 oring is most developed in the older leaves ; in 

 some, blotches of red or yellowish red are scat- 

 tered over the whole leaf; in othei'S, a portion 



