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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[November, 



under its narcotic influence. Hence the name 

 E. piscatoria, or fisherman's Euphorbia. It is 

 said to possess a similar property to Cocculus 

 suberosus, better known as C. Indica, which is 

 much used in the adulteration of ale and beer. 



With this poison, no doubt, many a big, simple 

 homo is caught, as well as guileless little fishes. 



MARESCHAL NIEL ROSE. 



BY JAMES W. DOHERTY, GARDENER TO W. T. STEVENS, 

 NEWPORT, R. I. 



I have read Mr. Pearsons' account of his Mare- 

 schal Niel Rose in the Gardener's Monthly. It 

 was verj"^ good. I have a Mareschal Niel Rose 

 growing in a greenhouse, where I raise my bed- 

 ding plants. It is 45 feet long, and the roof is 

 wired, the same as a grapery, and the Mareschal 

 Neil trained on to it; it covers the entire roof. I 

 have at several times cut three hundred roses 

 off it at one time and over four thou.sand in one 

 year. 



SASH BARS. 



BY O. J. poppey, poughkeepbie, n. y. 

 Having had considerable experience with 

 grooved sash bars, I beg to be permitted to state 

 through these columns why I failed to appreci- 

 ate their efficacy. The dripping of condensed va- 

 pors never, to my knowledge, ever proved injuri- 

 ous to plants or seeds ; it is not only of too short 

 a duration, but also being of the same tempera- 

 ture as the air in the greenhouse, it fails to sub- 

 stantiate — yes, rather repels the supposition that 

 any damage arises from it. No grooved bar has 

 ever materially diminished this sort of dripping, 

 as it is not altogether confined to the bars, but 

 mostly where the glass laps, there the water col- 

 lects when it cannot escape to the outside, which 

 it often will as the glass does not always fit 

 tightly at that place. There should, in no green- 

 house, be any other than this sort of drip, and I 

 am certain those built on the modern style ad- 

 mit of no other. I have held situations as 

 gardener in many sections of this country, 

 and been employed in all sorts of glass struc- 

 tures; none impressed me more favorably as 

 being nearest the mark of perfection as did the 

 greenhouses of Mr. Peter Henderson. A firm in 

 this city has since erected several strictly on this 

 plan. These houses do not admit any drip from 

 rain, for they are as tight as a drum, and I feel 



assured that grooved bars in these houses would 



be of as much use as gutters on the ceiling of a 

 mansion, or a lightning rod down in a cellar. If 

 the dripping is owing to the wretched condition 

 of glazing, a better remedy ought to be resorted 

 to than a miniature mill race, — one that will at 

 the same time arrest any escape of heat, and 

 once for all check this annoyance. This remedy 

 is constantly within our means and reach — it is 

 all in glazing, which should be done in the best 

 possible manner. My experience with grooved 

 sash bars has convinced me that their service to 

 carry off" water was very deficient in cases of 

 heavy rains or melting snow, particularly those 

 on long bars, which were too small in their capa- 

 city to hold all the water, thus invariably caus- 

 ing an overflow, not saying anything about the 

 dirt that accumulates in them within a season, 

 which renders the grooves entirely useless ; and 

 to keep them clean is not only a foolish waste of 

 time, but almost a task next to impossibility. I 

 even saw the attempt of adjusting small tin gut- 

 ters while the glass was on, to answer the pur- 

 pose of grooves, but with no better success, for 

 it was soon discovered that more injury was 

 done by attaching them, than they ever would 

 make good. 



It seems to me as sensible to advise the 

 putting up of gutters on the ceiling of a dwelling 

 when the roof is leaky. That the physical con- 

 dition of plants is nearly the same as that of ani- 

 mals, I dare say no one doubts, also that low 

 and moist temperature is injurious to either, is 

 too, a settled fact ; and the only means we have 

 to ward off" this injury is by making sure of tight 

 roofs and walls, with the necessary appurten- 

 ances for heating. That greenhouses can be 

 made suflSiciently water-tight to disqualify the 

 use and necessity of grooved bars in the future 

 has been practically established in this section 

 of the country, if nowhere else. 



The "grooved" sash bar is an old idea, but 

 since the more practical style of building green- 

 houses has been adopted, the "fluted bar'' is ra- 

 pidly going out of date. 



THE CATALONIAN JASMINE. 



BY CHAS. E. PARNELL, QUEENS. L. I., N. Y. 



In the February Monthly for 1880, page 44, a 

 subscriber asks for information concerning the 

 treatment of the Catalonian Jasmine. 



The Catalonian Jasmine, Jasminum grandi- 

 florum, is a native of the East Indies, and was 



