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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[March, 



and orive air so that the plants do not become 

 weak and drawn. 



I wish it to be understood that these remarks 

 are not intended as a criticism on Mr. Fyfe's 

 excellent article, as he has had more experience 

 in plant cultivation than I probably will ever 

 have, but as one of your correspondents in- 

 quired in the June number for a remedy for the 

 rust on Gloxinias, I thought that my experience 

 would be of some benefit to him. 



EDITORIAL NOTES 



indicate the arrangement of an ordinary lime- 

 kiln, while the other letters indicate the portions 

 of a saddle boiler with its flow and return pipes 

 over the top of the kiln. 



Although this twenty-acre building could prob- 

 ably be heated in this manner, it might not per- 

 haps be very agreeable to the frequenters of the 

 beautiful Fairmount Park to have a " nasty lime 

 market" with its main depot within its bounda- 

 ries. However, it is for us to show what may be 

 done, — for others to entertain the practicability 

 — .^ or desirability of applying it. 



Dreer's New Coleus. — The beautiful 

 strain of Coleus raised by Mr. H. A Dreer, 

 we understand is to be placed on the mar- 

 ket this spring. 



Heating by 

 Making Lime. — 

 Some years since 

 greenhouses were to 

 be heated by the 

 waste heat from 

 limekilns. It was a 

 good idea, but it 

 does not seem to 

 have made much 

 headway. Probably 

 those who would 

 like to save the heat 

 do not care to go 

 into the lime-selling 

 business, while 

 those who now 

 make the lime and 

 lose the heat know 

 nothing of the 

 greenhouse man- 

 agement. There 

 -surely ought to be 

 something in the 

 idea if the horticul- 

 tural and 1 i m e - 

 burning intellect could 

 brain. 



be 



Improved Chinese Primroses. — By a 

 beautiful colored plate in the London 

 Florist and Pomologist, we learn that a 

 beautiful variety with bright rosy flowers, 

 but with small white spots on the margin 

 of the lobes, has been produced. It has 

 been honored by 

 the title of Primula 

 sinensis purpurea 

 punctata. This of 

 itself ought to attest 

 its princely value, 

 for the scions of 

 most royal houses 

 have a dozen or so 

 of names, though 

 even these cannot 

 often boast of long 

 Latin ones. 



Drip in Green- 

 HOUSES. — Many 

 plant houses injure 

 plants by permit- 

 ting the condensed 

 moisture or leakage 

 to drop — to drip as 

 gardeners say. To 

 avoid this a groove 

 is made at the end 

 of the rabbet or the 

 — rafter, which con- 

 veys the moisture 

 Steep houses are less 



HEATING BY A LIMEKILN. 



evolved from our | without letting it drop 



liable to injury from drip than those with flat 

 As some attention is being again given to the | roofs, 

 subject, through some of the Philadelphia papers | a Pretty Bouquet.— It was a very pretty 

 recommending the heating of the Exhibition j bouquet that was presented by the ladies of 

 Buildings by this plan, we reproduce an illustra- 1 Bethlehem to the Editor of the Gardener's 



tion we once gave of the plan, as it has in a 

 measure been forgotton. 



It will be seen that the figures a, b, c, simply 



Monthly at the conclusion of his little talk on 

 window gardening at the recent annual meeting 

 of the State Horticultural Society. Fronds of 



