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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[September, 



taking the place of meat, which they resemble 

 in nourishment, with added enjoyment of high 

 flavor. 



In California, fruit-raising is very lucrative, 

 and men have found the almond more than 

 likely to become a national product ; while the 

 grape, taking the place of the great European 

 decline, is taking its place as a wine producer 

 much more rapidly than most persons believe. 

 There are many industries of greater or less 

 value which Notes and Queries will, from time 

 to time, mention as practicable. 



Of late introductions, the Weigelia alone seems 

 to hold its own, but the Desfontania spinosa, 

 looking like a holly, but throwing scarlet and 

 yellow tubes of blossom, or the Diplopoppsus 

 with its leaves like a variegated thyme, and its 

 flowers like a minute-aster, are too rarely seen. 

 — London Quarterly Rmdew. 



The old China pink, or monthl}' rose, deserves 

 a bed to itself. It should be pegged down, and 

 the blue lobelia should be planted between. No 

 rose, taking all the good qualities of a rose to- 

 gether, will surpass the Gloire de Dijon, though 

 golden cups of Marshal Niel may be richer in 

 color, and the fragrance of La France recalls as 

 no other rose does, the luxurious fragrance of 

 Oriental otto of roses. — Ibid. 



Remember that the Marshal is improved in color, 

 especially by budding on Lady Banks. The most 

 striking successes among hj-^brids have been 

 among roses, clematis, begonias, and rhododen- 

 drons. 



One single florist in the neighborhood of Lon- 

 don sends to market annually more than 80,000 

 plants of one description of pelargonium alone. 

 It is calculated that the bedding out of a single 

 good sized garden will take at least 100,000 plants 

 to make it effective. — London Quarterly Review. 



A Mr. Burbridge tells us that the value of 

 flower roots sent from Holland a year or two 

 ago was nearly £60,000, and one English grower 

 imports annually 160,000 tulip bulbs. — Ibid. 



Besides the spring garden, there is in some 

 places the semi-tropical garden, and in others 

 the Alpine garden. No one has done more than 

 has Mr. W. Robinson to call up the chief orna- 

 ment in the gardens of Paris, and in the delicate 

 tufts of flowers which nestle in the crevices of 

 our rockeries. But there is much still to be 

 done. — Ibid. 



Why do the climbing plants climb at all, and 



why do some twine and others cling? Why do 

 the fly-catching plants cause the death of num- 

 bers of unlucky insects? Why are the stamens 

 and pistils of plants of such various lengths and 

 si/.os? Why have some flowers a hairy fringe, 

 and others drops of nectar in their calyces? 

 What is the meaning of the scent of flowers ? 

 The key to many of these questions is in the 

 relationship of flowers to insects ; and Charles 

 Darwin, Sir John Lubbock, and others, have 

 done much to explore and then popularize the 

 subject. 



The "dressing" of flowers of particular blooms 

 has recently become an art, and little curling 

 irons are employed to get petals into their proper 

 shape, and various other devices are used for 

 various flowers. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Progress OF THE Town OF Gkeeley. — The writer 

 of this saw the town of Greeley eighteen months 

 after it was founded by N. C. Meeker, R. A. 

 Cameron and Horace Greeley, and was favorably 

 impressed with its prospective success. At the 

 foot of the Rocky Mountains, in a rainless coun- 

 try, the founders looked to irrigation of the soil 

 by mountain streams for its agricultural pros- 

 perity, just as the Plains of Lombardy had be- 

 come a success in the old world. The little town 

 has now passed its tenth year, and has become 

 as great a success as the most sanguine could 

 have dreamed. It now has two newspapers and 

 a great variety of flourishing industries. It is in 

 some sense agreat city. The Greeley (Col.) Tribune 

 has recently issued a supplement, giving a con- 

 cise and illustrated account of its progress. 



The Arborioultural Census. — Western papers 

 keep us posted of the movements of Prof. Sar- 

 gent and his associates. Dr. Engelmann, Dr. 

 Parry and Mr. Sereno Watson. In the first part 

 of his journey he was accompanied through 

 Colorado by Robert Douglass. From all accounts 

 an immense amount of valuable facts have been 

 recorded. 



The Late Robert Buist. — For the first time 

 since his accident, Hon._M. P. Wilder visited the 

 rooms of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety at its August meeting expressly to do honor 

 to the memory of Mr. Buist. He paid an elo- 

 quent tribute to his worth, and was followed by 

 W. C. Strong, Robert Manning and President 

 Hayes, after which appropriate resolutions. 



