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Stephanotis can be propagated by (Uittings or by color so as to produce a combination that satis- 



layers, but as it does not strike easily from cut- fies the eye of taste has some pretentions to be 



tings, layers will be preferable. In layering, cut called an art, and it is an art that some individu- 



a notch close under a joint, bend the part cut als appear to possess instinctively, as even with 



into a pot, and fill with soil. The layers will very ordinary materials they can make a much 



sometimes root in a few weeks, and at other more pleasing arrangement than oihers after an 



times they require a month or two. As soon as unlimited amount of practice are able to effect 



they are well rooted, take them off" and shift with the choicest flowers." A.nd yet practice 



them as often as necessary. Such plants if well and e.xperience has much to do with success in 



rooted and kept moderately dry, can be pre- bouquet making. Any one who has seen the 



served in a common greenhouse through the very tasteful work exhibited of late years at 



winter. The Stephanotis is also propagated by horticultural gatherings, and displayed on the 



cuttings of the ends of the flowering shoots and tables of people of taste, and remembers the dis- 



planting them in sand under a hand glass. When gusting bunches of the past, will say that cul- 



grown inside, an occasional washing of the leaves ture as well as native taste must enter into a 



and stems of this plant is necessary to remove good bouquet. 



the insects to which it is unfortunately very , mi i i 



, . ^ " Akthl'RIUM axdreakium. — Those who know 



•^ ■ the great beauty of the Flamingo plant, Anthu- 



rium Scherzerianum, will be glad to know that 



EDITORIAL NOTES. a new beauty of this class has appeared under 



I the above name that is likely to be quite as 



Te.\ Rose Comtesse Riga or Parc— This is the popular. A correspondent says : " The plant is 



subject of the colored plate in Journal de Roses an Aroid of tufted habit, with oblong, cordate, 



for February. In reminds one somewhat of the glabrous, leathery leaves, dark green above, 



famous old Triomphe de Luxemburg, which has | paler beneath, and marked by comparatively 



nearly disappeared from cultivation now. It is, : few but prominent nerves ; the leaf-stalks are 



however, of a much darker shade than that. 1 ascending, cylindrically slender, and thickened 



at the top, the blade being attached, as it were, 



like brief, pithy j^jj g.^^ise, so as to allow of varying positions, 



Window Flowers. — We all 

 paragraphs, telling a great deal in a few words. 

 Here is a good specimen from the pen of Captain 

 Franklin Rowland, who does the "Farm and 

 Home" column of the New Bedford Evening 

 News : 



" See that these beautiful objects have suitable 

 care from daj' to day. Water them, keep off the 

 vermin, wash them once a week or so, and occa 



deflexed or spreading. The flower-stalk is double 

 the length of the leaf-stalk. 



•' Undoubtedly the plant is one of the most bril- 

 liant and remarkable discoveries of recent times. 

 Those who remember what Anthurium Scherze- 

 rianum was on its first introduction, and what it 

 is now, are justified in looking forward to the 



sionally give them a little guano in the water career of the present plant as of quite exceptional 

 that is applied. Let them have all the sunlight importance. The flower lasts in beauty four 



months, its color is most brilliant, and the plant 



possible, for most plants do not do well in the 

 shade. Home is made beautiful by beautiful 

 plants, and children as well as others are 

 made the better bv their cultivation and care. 



is of easy cultivation. It grows at an elevation 

 of from 3,.")00 to -4,200 feet, and a temperature of 

 from 60° to 70° would suit it best." 



Glass Roofs. — Gardener's Magazine recom- 

 mends that instead of slate or shingles, glass— 



Bouquet Making. — The Gardener's Chronicle 

 tells us: "We have heard a lady who was 

 an accomplished flower painter lament that, 



although she could portray flowers on canvas ^j"^:^.^g|,^^g that would resist hail— would do as 



in a way to elicit the approval of those com- ^^.^^ rpj^^j^ ^^^ ^^^^1^ Y\ave nice winter green- 



petent to criticise, yet she could not arrange a houses at the top of our dwellings ; and, no 



bouquet or a vase of flowers either to please ^^^1,^^ g^me contrivances could be introduced 



herself or any one else, as when she attempted ^^.^^ would cool off the heat in summer weather." 

 anything of the kind the result was usually the 



production of something like a haystack. Prices of Orchids.— We have often pointed 



I'here can be no question that the ability to out to our readers, that one advantage of owning 



arrange foliage and flowers diff"ering in form and a collection of Orchids, is that they increase in 



