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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[November, 



red Oxalis flowers sticking out from among the 

 deep green leaves of the creeper has a novel 

 and pleasing effect. 



Plumbago Larpentas is at its gayest in Sep- 

 tember. Its deep blue flowers are very pretty. 

 It is not hardy here in the open ground, but 

 winters well in a cold frame. It is hardy from 

 New York southwards. 



Plumbago Capensis is, at present, our most co- 

 pious and beautiful lavender colored flower. 

 Cuttings struck last spring and transplanted 

 from three-inch pots in Maj'^, are making this 

 display. It requires greenhoufe,e protection in 

 winter. 



Aponogeton distachyon or Cape Pond Weed has 

 blossomed all summer long in our pond. Plants 

 left out all winter are vastly stronger than those 

 wintered in the greenhouse. It is hardy, pro- 

 viding the roots are deep enough to be beyond 

 the reach of ice. Being a small plant it does 

 not do so well in water over three feet deep as 

 where it is more shallow. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Cranston's Rose Nursery at Hereford, Eng- 

 land. — The nurseries were established in 1785 by 

 the grandfather of the present proprietors. They 

 comprise 130 acres, of which 60 are devoted to 

 Roses. It has one house, 140 by 25 feet for Rose 

 cut flowers, and this is said to be the largest cut 

 flower rose house in England. Marechal Niel 

 is the great favorite. In the open ground, 66,- 

 000 " Standards" were budded the past season. 

 The ordinary roses are on budded stocks. Of 

 these 500,000 Manettis were budded the past 

 season. The Dog Rose is also in use for stocks. 

 They can make large exhibits; at one recentlj- 

 they had fourteen thousand cut specimens. 



Acer Plantanoides Aurea variegatum Bun- 

 TZLERi, is the latest addition to the new list of 

 trees, but mercy, what a name for a striped leaf 

 maple ! 



A French Collection of Roses. — At one of 

 the expositions in France last June, Mr. Joseph 

 Swartz exhibited 400 varieties. Among some 

 seedlings which he exhibited, and which were 

 pronounced by the jury decided acquisitions, 

 was Madame Joseph Swartz, a Tea Rose, rosy 

 white passing to a whitish salmon, raised from 



Comtesse de Labarthe. Also a hybrid perpetual 

 Guilliaume Guillemot. 



Yucca gloriosa. — Generally this species 

 throws up its flower stems so late, that the frost 

 catches them before they open. In gardens 

 about Philadelphia, this season, they opened in 

 the middle of September, and made the gardens 

 very gay by their large panicles of pearly white 

 flowers. 



Salvia farinacea. — This beautiful blue spe- 

 cies from southern Kansas and southwardly, 

 proves to be well adapted to garden culture. It 

 blooms at the end of August and lasts till frost. 

 It is often grown under the name of S. Pitcheri. 



New Ver'benas. — There seems to have been 

 almost reached a limit to the production of any 

 remarkable novelties in Verbenas; but in Eng- 

 land a variety is said to have been raised which 

 is said to have two of the petals purple and 

 three white, looking in fact much like a cluster 

 of miniature Pansies. Mr Cannell is said to 

 have it. 



Nicotiana suaveolens. — A small pinch of 

 seeds sent us by some friend, sown in the open 

 ground in May, has had hundreds of pretty 

 white flowers from August to frost. Though 

 not particularly " suaveolent," it is an attrac- 

 tive border flower, and of very good habit of 

 growth. 



Tree Combinations. — Beautiful effects may 

 be had by combining trees of distinct peculiari- 

 ties. The Gardener's Chronicle refers to a pleas- 

 ant effect produced at the end of an island in a 

 lake by a Weeping Willow and the Lombardy 

 Poplar. The last is in the centre of a mass of 

 willows which are kept low around the poplars. 



Roses. — The two articles by Mr. H. B. Ellwanger 

 and Mr. Laxton make this, in a great measure, 

 a "Rose" number. There is an increase in the 

 taste for rose culture, and the " Rose number," 

 we are sure, will be generally welcome. 



Public Parks and Gardens. — The New York 

 Independent says:— "We have noticed, from 

 time to time, in our columns, the public 

 spirit and liberality of some who have, 

 at great expense and labor, provided public 

 parks for the people. A man who builds and 

 furnishes a church, where plain Gospel truths 

 may be spoken, and then gives it to any com- 

 munity, is a noble man in the best sense of the 

 word; but wood and bricks and mortar will 



