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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



IJune, 



the plants, and it is a pleasure to arid, in some 

 abundance. 



It was lately my fortune to find it also along 

 the Wissahickon, but the find consisted of but a 

 single plant. As Dr. Gray states it is found 

 there, it would be interesting if it could be known 

 whether this single plant represents the old lo- 

 cation, or is in a new one. For many years the 

 Schuylkill was thought to be the only locality 

 for this fern ; but it is now found in other States 

 besides Pennsylvania, though still considered 

 rare. 



NICOTIANA SUAVEOLENS. 



BY W. L. F., HANOVER, MASS. 



After reading the article in the April number 

 of the Monthly, from Mrs. E., relating her ex- 

 perience with Nicotiana suaveolens, I think I 

 can give her some light on the subject. She has 

 evidently not had the true N. suaveolens, but a 

 species of tobacco which I also have tried, much 

 to my dissapointment. Its specific name I am 

 not sure of, but think it is N. glauca, a native of 

 South America. Last summer I had the true 

 IN", suaveolens, which I consider a very desirable 

 plant. I obtained the seed from Hovey & Co., 

 Boston, and planted several together in a clump. 

 It quite nearly answers the description which 

 Mrs. E's. spurious plant so falsified. I know 

 that to be a coarse and worthless weed ; but the 

 true plant which I had in bloom all summer un- 

 til killed by frost, was covered with salver 

 formed, white flowers, something over one inch 

 across, on a slender greenish tube, reminding 

 one of the single white Narcissus, and in the 

 evening exhaling a delicate perfume. 



By referring to Bentham's Flora Australi- 

 ensis, vol. 4, pp. 469, I think you will see that 

 N. suaveolens there described is not the plant 

 Mrs. E. had under that name, and though it sports 

 into several varieties, none have a small green- 

 ish corolla, or otherwise answer to Mrs. E's. 

 description of her plant. 



I should without hesitation recommend N. 

 suaveolens as a very desirable addition to our 

 list of easily grown 'annuals. It should be plant- 

 ed several together, as not enough blooms on a 

 single plant open at once, to make it a conspi- 

 cuous object. 



DESTROYING WOOD LICE. 



BY E. S. MILLER, WADING RIVER, N. Y. 



'l have been troubled with the sow bug, On- 

 iscus usellus, eating plants growing in hot-beds, 



mostly verbenas. They seem particularly fond 

 of seedling verbenas and pausies. I have used 

 tobacco dust with good results. I never heard 

 of their eating plants before. Are they new re- 

 cruits to the vast army of insects injurious to 

 vegetation ? 



[The sow bug or woodlouse is not an uncom- 

 mon pest to the greenhouse and hot-bed culti- 

 vator.— Ed. G. M.] 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Clinton Flower Market, New York. — 

 From 100 to 150 wagon loads of pot flowers are 

 emptied here every morning in the pot-flower 

 season. Callas, Geraniums, Fuchsias. Fansies, 

 Daisies, and Polyanthus, are the most popular. 

 From S5,000 to $6,000 per day is the estimated 

 receipts in this market for flower sales. 



Our Garden Chrysanthemums. — Mr. Rob- 

 ert Fortune tells the Gardener'' s Chronicle, that 

 the culture of the Chrysanthemum has acliieved 

 a much higher standard in Europe than in China, 

 — notwithstanding the prevailing impression of 

 the superiority of Chinese gardeners. 



The Garden. — A London paper says that 

 "eveiy man's happiness is just in proportion to 

 the pride he takes in his garden." 



A South Carolina Garden. — Professor 

 Sargent writes : "I was much interested while 

 in Charleston, South Carolina, last month to 

 find in an old garden near the foot of Calhoun 

 street, belonging to Mr. David Jennings, an old 

 single red Camellia, the remarkable dimensions 

 of which are worth recording. It was planted, 

 it is said, by a Colonel Lucas in 1808, and was 

 one of the first Camellias ever brought to the 

 LTnited States ; although those brought from 

 France by the elder Michaux, and planted by 

 him on the Middleton Estate, near Charleston, 

 where they are still living, I believe, are a few 

 years older. The trunk of Mr. Jenning's plant 

 has a circumference of 4 feet 6 inches, its 

 branches spread 30 feet, while its height is con- 

 siderably over 30 feet. Hundreds of seedling 

 Camellia plants were springing up everywhere 

 in this garden, showing that the climate of the 

 Southern Atlantic States is perfectly suited to 

 the Camellia, which is already largely culti- 

 vated there. 



Near Charleston, too, 20 miles up the^Ashley 

 River, on the Drayton Estate, and just in front 

 of Drayton Hall, stands what, so far as my ob- 



