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TEE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[Septembee, 



are all set oflf with gay and sweet-smelling flow- 

 ers. It is, moreover, a Continental custom, fast 

 gaining ground in this country, to drop flowers 

 into the graves of departed friends, as though we 

 owed some loving tribute to their memories. 



" In order to meet these demands and many 

 others, we have our ' flower girls,' who deftly 

 handle the cut flowers, and construct some very 

 quaint devices. Taking a leaf of a Zonal Pelar- 

 gonium, for instance, she bores a hole in the cen- 

 tre a^id inserts some gaudy flower belonging to 

 another genus, thus making a button-hole bou- 

 quet, the smallest size, good ' home made,' quite 

 a marketable article, and sold in thousands. The 

 flower orders for wedding bouquets is quite a 

 commercial affiiir in the London season, and 

 cost a good round sum. Occasional /^<es, such as 

 those got up for the Shah, are red-letter days for 

 bunting and bouquets." 



Chrysanthemums after Flowering. — Many 

 amateurs who have grown chrysanthemums for 

 conservatory decoration are in doubt as to what 

 should be done with them now that they are out 

 of flower; and a word or two on the subject will 

 be of service. They are, it must be said, very 

 accommodating, and may be kept in a properly- 

 constructed pit or under a covering of long litter. 

 As pit-room is not often very abundant in such 

 gardens, and the chrysanthemum, although re- 

 puted hardy, is likely to suffer from severe frosts, 

 stand the pots on a layer of coal-ashes at the 

 foot of a wall or other sheltered place, and when 

 there is any appearance of frost cover them with 

 a thick layer of long litter or newly-collected 

 leaves, and j^lace a few boards on the top, espe- 

 cially if leaves are employed, to prevent them 

 blowing about. Here they can remain until all 

 danger from severe frosts is past, and then they 

 can be uncovered. In the early part of the 

 spring turn them out of the pots, knock away all 

 the soil, and select the strongest suckers with a 

 few roots attached to them, and then put them 

 singly in small pots. This will save the trouble 

 of striking the cuttings, and a little time will also 

 be gained. When established in the small pots 

 they can be shifted on in the same manner as 

 those raised from cuttings. — Gardener's Weekly. 



SoFT-wooDED GREENHOUSE PLANTS. — Veronica 

 Andersoni and salicifolia are amongst the most 

 useful autumn flowering plants for conserva- 

 tory decoration, when grown in pots and properly 

 prepared. To keep them dwarf and bushy, as 

 also to induce a free disposition to flower, the 



pots should now be plunged in coal-ashes in a 

 sunny situation, and well supplied with water. 

 When they get filled with roots give them 

 manure-water once a week. — Gardener's Chronicle. 



NEW PLANTS. 



EuDGEA MACROPHYLLA, producing a large head 

 of pure white flowers, is blooming in the stove. 

 The leaves are of large size and have been com- 

 pared to Medinilla, with which in habit the 

 plant has some similarity, though from so small 

 a plant much cannot be said. It is about a foot 

 high, and the inflorescence in size is quite out of 

 j)roportion. The flowers are very beautiful, and 

 have been used in the bridal bouquet of a Royal 

 marriage. Individually they last only a short 

 time, but a large number of buds open in succes- 

 sion, and these alone are of great beauty. The 

 corolla is funnel-shaped and about an inch in 

 diameter. It was figured in the Botanical Mag- 

 azine of 1867, where it is described as " a mag- 

 nificent plant, and belonging to a genus which, 

 though containing many species, had never prev- 

 iously, so far as I am aware, been introduced 

 into European gardens." It is yet quite rare. 

 The specimen from which the portrait was drawn 

 wa.s sent by Mr. Henderson of Pine Apple Place. 

 It is a native of Rio Janeiro, and is described as 

 attaining a height of 6 feet. Hitherto it has not 

 been tried with different soils or temperatures, 

 but has succeeded in the stove, using a soil of 

 jieat and loam as for the generality of stove 

 plants. — Knv Novelties in the Jomnial oj Horticul- 

 ture. 



Pink Marechal Niel Rose. — A pink Mare- 

 chal Niel rose appears to have been secured by 

 our excellent coadjutor Mr. Thomas Trussler, of 

 Edmonton, and should it prove to bear tlie test 

 of criticism it will add to the series of illustra- 

 tions recorded of the reciprocal influence ofstock 

 and graft. A bud of John Hopper was entered 

 on a brier in the usual way, and afterwards a bud 

 of Marechal Niel was entered on John Hopper. 

 The result is apparently a pink Marechal Niel. 

 The flower before us is smaller than the type ; it 

 is pale lemon-yellow without, with a diaphonous 

 tint of pink within, very pleasing, and in some 

 degree resembling Devoniensis. Should it jorove 

 permanent it will be peculiarly interesting. — 

 Ganlener's Magazine. 



