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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[November, 



Stangeria schizodon.— Of this interesting Cy- 

 cad, whicli has been imported from Natal, only 

 young plants are yet known in this country. 

 These have, as in the original Stangeria para- 

 doxa, a bluntly rounded or napiform stem, the 

 crown of which is slightly elevated above the 

 soil, and from which the pinnate leaves arise. 

 These leaves (in the plants before us, evidently 

 immature) consist of three pairs of pinna? or 

 leaflets, which ^re of an ovate-lanceolate form, 

 and irregularly inciso-serrate at the margin, the 

 larger teeth being irregularly cut down into a var- 

 iable number of smaller teeth, thus forming a 

 deeply but irregularly toothed margin, instead 

 of the single spinulose serrate margin of S. para- 

 doxa. — Wm. Bull. 



Arnebia echioides. — Of the many beautiful 

 plants in flower on the Rock work at Kew, Ar- 

 nebia echioides is by far the rarest. It is allied 

 to Lithospermum, of which it has much the 

 habit, and the bright yellow flowers are perhaps 

 the prettiest of the color in the order to which 

 it belongs. There are sometimes five purple 

 spots on the corolla, alternating with the lobes, 

 but these are absent in some flowers while pres- 

 ent in others on the same plant. It forms a neat 

 tuft, and the flower-stems grow to a height of 

 from six to eight inches. 



Galactites tomentosa, Mcench. — Among 

 plants remarkable for their ornamental foliage, 

 the Galactites tomentosa deserves honorable 

 mention. It is a Composite, indigenous to the 

 shores of the Mediteranean, growing from two 

 to three feet high, of erect branching habit, with 

 spiny divided foliage, prettily blotched with 

 white, in the manner of Silybum Marianum, 

 nearly smooth above, but very cottony and 



white on the under surface. The stems and 

 branches are terminated by solitarj' flower heads 

 of a lilac-purple color. If sown as early as Feb- 

 ruary, the plant blooms the first season, but 

 stronger specimens are obtained by sowing in 

 autumn. It succeeds best in good loamy soil. — 

 Garden. 



New Goldex Poplar. — We have received from 

 ^Ir. Charles Van Geert, of Antwerp, a colored 

 plate representing a shoot and foliage of his new 

 Golden Populus canadensis. It is very beautiful, 

 and those who know Mr. Van Geert are certain 

 that he would not circulate any representation 

 of it which was an exaggeration of the truth. 

 Our forest scenery is destitute of golden tints, 

 except in the autumn, and this new gain of Mr. 

 Van Geert's will add a beauty and variety to it 

 wliich has hitherto been lacking. In his pros- 

 pectus Mr. Van Geert says — 



" Its leaves are quite as large as those of the 

 common Poplar, and the yellow hue, instead of 

 looking sicklj-, has a warm and vigorous tint. 

 The better nourished the tree is, and the more it 

 is exposed to the sun, the more vivid is the gold- 

 en hue. The stalks and the bark of the shoots 

 become then dark red, which adds greatly to 

 the beauty of the coloring. 



"This variety, or rather this freak of nature — 

 for it was spontaneously produced on a single 

 branch of a large tree — has been observed by 

 ourselves for more than live years, and during 

 all this time it has never shown any tendency to 

 alter its golden character. 



" This novelty will be ready for sending out in 

 March, 1876, and the finest specimens will be 

 forwarded to the first subscribers." — Journal of 

 Horticulture. 



REEN MOUSE AND MOUSE pARDENING. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Tliis plan will not please skilled gardeners, nor 



ought it to do so. They will get along better in 



the old way. But an extended experience with 



A year ago we called attention to the success | window gardening teaches us that the pot plants 



of a lady who filled her flower-pots to the brim , almost always fail fi'om too much rather than 



and even mounded the earth in the centre. ' too little water, and we feel, therefore, that there 



