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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[Fel)r»ary, 



The Queen Gives a Park.— A wealthy ijen- 

 tleman near Manchester, dyinfj without a will, 

 and having no known heirs, the property, under 

 the English laws, went to the Queen. She, in 

 turn, has donated it to the citizens as a public 

 Park forever. It is twenty acres in extent, beau- 

 tifully designed, and will be known as Newhouse 

 Park^ 



The Grounds of Major Freas.— Our " Let- 

 ter," noting the grounds of the editor of the 

 Telegraphy written without his knowledge of our 

 intentions, and after a stroll through by the 

 writer "by himself," needs a slight correction. 

 The gardener, we find, does not do the entire 

 work, but in the spring of the year, in the busy 

 season, is assisted by an extra hand. We were 

 not desired to make the correction, but it is due 

 to the facts that it should be made. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



SpiryEaAruncus.— Those who have traveled 

 through the Alleghanies, and have noted how 

 beautiful is this plant in its wild locations, must 

 have sometimes wondered why such excellent 

 material was seldom made to do tribute to the 

 ornamentation of gardens. Though so old a plant, 

 it appears to have been neglected in England, 

 where they are ever alive to cultivate any- 

 thing that may make a garden attractive. A 

 recent Gardener'' s Chronical says : 



"At a recent horticultural exhibition at Tiver- 

 ton, a fine specimen of this vigorous and hand- 

 some perennial, with a grand head of bloom, lift- 

 ed from the open ground, put into a pot, and 

 made the central figure in a large group of plants 

 furnished by Mr. Robert T. Yeitch, nurseryman, 

 Exeter, was a subject of wonderment among 

 ■ many of the Devonians. They thought it was 

 something new because unaccustomed to see it. 

 A neighbor who has great fondness for Spiraeas 

 grows Aruncus, Filipendula, palmata, Ulmaria, 

 venusta, and others in pots, giving them about two 

 inches of drainage, and in summer stands them 

 out-of-doors in capacious saucers holding about 

 one inch depth of water. In this way they do 

 remarkably well, and carry fine and luxuriant 

 heads of bloom. They are watered in the usual 

 way daily ; but as the cultivator has to go from 

 home for some twelve hours, the plants are 

 treated as above' in order that they should not 

 suffer for the want of water on the surface. The 



variegated 'form of S. Ulmaria is very fine and 

 effective grown In pots in this way. 



Dwarf Dahlias.— Among the novelties the 

 writer of this saw in the Paris markets a few 

 years ago were Dwarf Dahlias. They were 

 flowering freely in pots when not more than a 

 foot high. The kind we then saw was pure 

 white. They commenced to bloom very early 

 in the season. Mr. Yick iias found them to do 

 well in this country. He has quite a collection 

 of them, and gives the following as among the 

 best. 



Aurora, yellow, large. 



Creedmoor, orange scarlet, sometimes tipped white. 



Daion, creamy ground, tipped with rose. 



Dwarf Queen, purple, tipped with white. 



Frauline Hetlergot, light and rose, fine dwarf. 



Gem of the Dwarfs, red, tipped with white. 



Golden Bedder, fine yellow. 



Goldfiuder, golden yellow. 



Leah, fine shade of orange, tinted with rose. 



Mela Barlelles, very fine pink. 



31t. Blanc, clear white. 



Pearl, pearly White. 



Queen Victoria, canary yellow. 



Bisint; Sun, large, intense scarlet. 



Sambo, dark maroon, 



Vulcan, deep red, large flower. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES 



Eupatoriums. — A. B.,says: "Your corres- 

 pondent. Miss E. Hunter, has evidently mis- 

 apprehended some points in her otherwise 

 interesting note on Eupatoriums. The plant 

 which she calls Eupatorium, is evidently Cono- 

 clinium, for the blue Eupatorium is a green- 

 house plant, sometimes called Ageratum. The 

 Conoclinium has somewhat the look of this 

 Mexican plant, and Miss H. may be excused for 

 coupling them, though it would be unpardon- 

 able in a good botanist not to see the distinction. 



Red Cedar. — Some one sends wrapped in a 

 Denver paper, some branches of Juniperus Yir- 

 ginia. This, the Eastern Red Cedar, meets the 

 Western Red Cedar, Juniperus occidentalis in 

 the Rocky Mountains. They both grow together 

 there. 



Hardiness of Ligustrum japonicum. — C. 

 A. D., New York, writes: "I notice in your 

 pages some discussion respecting what is called 

 Ligustrum japonicum. What plant is meant by 

 this title ? Is it Ligustrum ovalifolium, or 

 something else ? If Ligustrum ovalifolium is 

 the plant that your correspondents are discuss- 



