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extensively in all the flower beds requiring a show signs of growth. Treated in this manner 

 light colored ^.eaf, and prefers it to the Centaurea the various leaf markings become more intense, 



or Dusty Miller. 



There were also several beds of Geraniums; one 

 filled with Happy Thought was very pretty ; and 

 one filled with a bronze or golden kind, called 

 Crystal Palace Gem, looked very attractive ; but 

 for masses of color and free fl.owering qualities, 

 Mr. McKay finds none to beat geranium General 

 Grant, of which there were some very extensive 

 beds. The Canna with Musa Ensete in the 

 middle, planted out in masses, gave the gardens 

 quite a tropical appearance. While the Dahlia 

 and Gladiolus beds were 



and last much longer on the plants. 



(To be continued.) 

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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Bad Effects of the Mild Winter. — It 

 is hard to please poor human nature. Now 

 while so many are thankful that the winter has 

 been so mild, there are others who have discov- 

 ered that the potatoes left in the ground last 

 fall when the crop was dug, have not been killed 



^T ,, . ^^"^^ e cr? ," as usual, and a fearful crop of potato "weeds" 



Near the mansion was a row of fifty real . . . ' r t- 



porcelain vases, worth perhaps one hundred ^'^ '^^ P' 



dollars each, which were very tastefully filled, Rose Culture in America. — Dingee & 



and added vastly to the attractions of the place. | Conard of West Grove, Chester County, are 



Near the vases was a collection of some three \ said to be the most extensive cultivators 



thousand Agave plants, of some two hundred j of roses in the country. They have forty-six 



varieties, some of which were expected to flower greenhouses, the smallest of which is not less 



very soon. than 100 feet in length, all devoted to the 



Hollywood contains in all some two hundred \ propagation and cultivation of roses. These 

 acres, one hundred of which are in the flower gentlemen received last month fifty large dry- 

 gardens and separated from the other parts by a goods boxes, filled with pamphlets and cata- 

 beautiful Norway spruce hedge, which is clipped | logues for distribution. The postage on these 

 regularly twice a year-once in June and again catalogues alone last year cost this firm $2,700. 

 in August. Pruning Injured Trees. — The winter in 



Some idea of the extent of the flower beds Russia, as in other parts of Europe has been one 

 may be gained when it is known that it tafees j of unusual severity. Dr. A. Philibert, of Mos- 

 between two and three millions of plants to fill j cow, writing to Jean Sisley, of Lyons, France, 

 them ; these, with a very few exceptions, are all speaks of the probable injury to fruit trees, 

 grown on the place, requiring greenhouses | and of numbers that were cut down under the 

 especially for propagation. the impression that they were frost-killed in the 



The conservatories consist of nine ranges, 

 twenty-three greenhouses in all ; five of which 



severe winter of 1860, the trunks of which 

 afterwards grew, — and therefore says he, "it 



are three hundred feet long. All the large houses will be imprudent to prune anyhow, but wait 

 are built of iron, and heated with Hitcliing's hot first to see if they are really dead. This seems 

 water apparatus, and all have plaster or cement strange advice to those who have American ex- 

 walks which give the houses a very neat and clean perience ; we know that trees die in winter from 

 appearance. The first house I visited was in ; excessive evaporation, and that moisture dries 

 the shape of an immense oval building, and faster from a dead or dying branch than from a 



filled on all sides with Caladiums grown in very 



sound one. The sooner a frost-injured branch is 



large pans ; these of themselves were a sight to cut away the better for the parts that are left, 

 behold, consisting of many hundred specimens ^o doubt the trees that lived in 1860 lived be- 

 in about thirty five varieties. 



Another house was filled 

 Marantas,Alocasias and Begonias, interspersed toes were not uncommon with distinguished 

 with some magnificent specimens of Sphoero- people of former times. In the garden of W. 

 gyne latifolia, which lent a charm to the other W. Seaton at Washington is an apple tree plant- 

 surroundings. Mr. McKay allows the Marantas i-d by Daniel Webster, a pear tree by John C 

 a season of rest and lets the plants become par- Calhoun, and a cherry tree by Mr. Benton 

 tially dry, keeping them in that state until they is said these trees show signs of decay. 



cause of the pruning they received, 

 with Dracsenas, | Memorial Trees.— These pleasant raemen- 



It 



