1876.] 



AND HORTIGULTURIBT. 



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remain for several years. Early in the summer 

 it throws up flower-stalks, and if they are at 

 once cut off with a pair of shears there will be 

 no more growth to need trimming until the next 

 year. I believe it to be quite as ornamental as 

 box, and it neither entails as much labor to keep 

 it neat, nor is it so liable to get out of order as 

 this much used edging plant." 



In addition to what the Garden says above, we 

 may add, that it is entirely hardy in our climate, 

 and may be made to do good service in our orna- 

 mental gardening. 



The Original Golden Yew. — The original 

 plant of the Golden Yew is in the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, at Glasnevin, and a remarkably good 

 specimen it is. It is known to have existed 

 there from about the beginning of the present 

 century, and it need hardly be added that vast 

 numbers were propagated from it both in Dr. 

 Moore's time and in that of his predecessors, — 

 R. in Record. 



A GOOD Tea Rose for Market Purposes. — " I 

 was told the other day" says a correspondent of 

 the Garden, " that from one dark apricot-colored 

 Tea Rose Madame Falcot, worked on a standard 

 briar stock, out' of doors, roses had been cut 

 every year to the value of between 30s. or 40s. a 

 year. It is evident, therefore, that this is a use- 

 ful rose for furnishing cut bloom for market." 



QuERCUS FASTIGIATA — The Gardeners' Chronicle 

 says : "According to M. Petzold, in the Deutschen 

 Reichsanzeiger, the original tree of the upright 

 oak, Quercus Robur fastigiata, near the village 

 of Haareshausen, by Aschaffenburg, is 100 feet 

 high, 3 feet 4 inches in diameter breast high, and 

 about 280 years old. The first branches are given 

 off at about 30 feet from the ground. The first 

 descendant of this fine tree adorns the grounds 

 of Wilhelmshohe, near Cassel. It stands near 

 the castle, and is 92 feet high, and a foot less in 

 diameter than the parent tree. The age of this 

 specimen is estimated at 90 years, and it is a 

 very vigorous, healthy tree, branched to the bot- 

 tom, so that it may be expected to exceed the 

 parent tree in height and size as it does al- 

 ready in beauty. 



NEW PLANTS. 



Peraphyllum ramosissimum. — Mr. Siler says: 

 " While writing upon the vegetation of Southern 

 Utah it will probably be interesting to you for 



me to notice a. few other plants that are either 

 new or but little known. 



"Peraphyllum ramosissimum, a low growing 

 shrub with its masses of white and sometimes 

 pink flowers, and waxy fruit in July, is probably 

 the handsomest flowering shrub in Utah. The 

 fruit, like the flowers, difier very much in appear- 

 ance. Those plants that produce white floAvers 

 yield white waxy fruit; while those producing 

 pink flowers have fruit with bright flesh colored 

 skin and a beautiful red cheek. This shrub is 

 perfectly hardy, growing usually on clay soils 

 and in the dryest localities. It is destined to be- 

 come a favorite shrub for hedges in all northern 

 localities." 



Victoria Mignonette. — New mignonettes 

 continue to be introduced, but to the general ob- 

 server do not appear verj^ different from old sorts. 

 The Victoria is now said to be the best. 



QUERIES. 



Proliferous Hyacinth. — Mr. Dreer hands us 

 the following from a correspondent: — "I have 

 sent you by express one or two clusters of flow- 

 ers from the hyacinth I named to you. The 

 clusters grow something as shown in sketch. I 

 have never seen anything like this form of hya- 

 cinth b«fore. I shall keep the bulb." 



[Each single flower produces numerous small 

 ones. Proliferous flowers are not rare. The ger- 

 anium, and others, often have these proliferous 

 flowers. We never saw it in the hyacinth before, 

 and if the bulb continues to reproduce this pecu- 

 liarity, it would be a good addition to garden 

 curiosities. — Ed. G. M.] 



Lime Floors. — E. S. M., Amherst, Virginia, 

 asks : "Can you give me the modus operandi for 

 making the lime floor for cellars mentioned in the 

 February number of the Gardener's Monthly. By 

 so doing you will greatly oblige." 



[It must be remembered that though it is a lime 

 floor it must not be a mortar floor. Lime, as 

 mortar, crystalizes and is then too brittle for good 

 floors. The lime for floors is " drawn," as plas- 

 terers say,— that is, it is dissolved in water, not 

 merely slacked as the masons do. Mortar dries 

 very rapidly, but when drawn through water lime 

 takes a long time to harden. The drawn lime 

 must be rolled heavily to make a good hard 

 stone-like floor.— Ed. G. M.] 



