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THE GAliDENER'S MONTHLY 



[November, 



callis in my collection which Imvc not yet 

 bloomed. P'or I'uniishinij vases, the cut spikes of 

 flowers are most ornamental. As with ordinary 

 Lilies all tlie undeveloped Hower-huds expand in 

 water. — The Ganicn. 



A Sense ok I'uoritiETV. — liotanical Old 

 Gent (in lini^hton (hardens) — "Can you tell me 

 my good nian, if this plant belonirs to the 'Ar- 

 butus family?'" Gardener (curtly) — ''No, sir, it 

 doan'r. It b'lonsjs to the Corporation.'" 



A'BJJ^ OR RARE PLANTS. 



EuLALiA Japonic A zebrina. — This promises 

 to be one of the most ornamental of grasses for 

 isolated positions on lawns or for planting in the 

 shi-ubbery border. In warm, deep, rich sandy 

 soil it grows rapidly, and its leaves become 

 effectively variegated. One of the best speci- 

 mens we have yet sc^en is now growing vigorously 

 in Messrs. Laing «fc Co.'s nursery at Forest Hill, 

 where it has stood the past Winter without an)' 

 protection whatever, and without sustaining the 

 least injury. — Garden. 



Double Scarlet Geum.— This Geum, which 

 has been in existence for some years, is not 

 nearly so often met with in gardens as it should 

 be. It is perfectly hardy, easily increased by 

 division of the root, thrives well in an)' good 

 garden mould, and from early in April until the 

 end of September established plants of it yield 

 abundance of bright orange-scarlet double blos- 

 soms, which in a cut state are quite equal, or 

 even superior to those of the double scarlet 

 Pelargonium. They last in good condition for 

 some time after being cut ; and when it is con- 

 sidered that a good supply of them can be had 

 with little or no trouble for six months in the 

 year, no garden, however small, should, one 

 would think, be without this plant. Good estab- 

 lished roots of it lifted late in the Autumn, and 

 wintered in a house or pit, would, if kept close 



to the gla.ss, and given plenty of air and water, 

 and a little heat after Christmas, no doubt pro- 

 duce good (lowering plants for the cool conser- 

 vatory full of flower in February, or even earlier. 

 AVe lately saw large beds of it in flower in the 

 Hale Farm Nurseries, where they form an attrac- 

 tive feature. — Garden. 



^ AniES Harryana. — New species; Abies 

 Veitchi, Ilort., Veitch, not of descriptions. This 

 is the plant cultivated as A. Veitchi, and sent 

 to mo under that name liy Messrs. A'eiteh. It 

 difters in appearance from true Veitchi, and can 

 be at once separated anatomically by the great 

 development of the hypoderma, and by the posi- 

 tion of the resin canals. If further investiga- 

 tion confirm the opinion that it is new, the name 

 Harryana will be retained in compliment to 

 Harry J. Veitch, Es(|., the head of the tirm of 

 Veitch «& Sons, in London. Leaves acute at the 

 apex. Stomata on the under surface of the leaf 

 onl)\ Hypoderma forming a continuous or 

 almost continuous layer under the epidermis of 

 the upper side of the leaf. Resin canals touch- 

 ing the epidermis of the under side. — Correspon- 

 dent of Garden. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Austrian and Scotch Pines. — F. M. Ober- 

 lin. A "popular" distinction between these 

 two may be the very dark green of the former 

 and the gray-green of the latter, which are be- 

 sides shorter. Then the buds and branches are 

 much stouter in the Austrian than in the Scotch 

 Pine. 



Dahlias. — From Leeds & Co., Richmond, 

 Indiana, we have a box of flowers of very beauti- 

 ful Pompone Dahlas. Some have despised the 

 the Dahlia of late years, but they are among the 

 largest of Fall flowers, and probablj'^ the most 

 critical would admire such handsome forms as 

 those sent by Messrs. Leeds. 



Green House and House Gardening. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. I it is a question whether the sacrificing of all our 



beautiful flowering plants for them is not an ex- 



The taste for "leaf plants" Palms, Ferns, and treme of good taste, into which most of us are apt 

 other plants with handsome foliage is good, but to run. Many of us look back on the old times 



