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slightly perfumed flowers for cutting during most of the summer and autumn months, 

 even up to the middle or end of October. The blossoms rival in form, and in the 

 beauty and diversity of their marking, the finest of the pinks and picotees of the 

 florist. This result has been secured by pursuing a system of careful selections, that 

 is, by saving seed froui only the best marked and perfectly double and well-formed 

 flowers, until the strain is such as to rarely produce a plant bearing r-ingle blossoms. 

 Seeds may be sown in the open ground in April and May, or started with hot-bed 

 heat in March, and afterward transplanted. The last mode will produce finest 

 blooms." 



New Text Hose. 



It is stated that a new Tea Rose, called Perle de Lyon, has been raised in France. 

 This novelty is said to resemble Marshal Neil, but being only more beautiful. 



Juniperus ExceJsa Stricta. 



This new evergreen shrub is recommended by English journals for planting on 

 terraces and in similar situations. Its form is pyramidal and elegant, the color of 

 its leaves silvery ; the young plants are very striking. 



A Fine White Rose. 



"Madam Plantier" is one of the best of the new white roses. It is a profuse 

 bloomer, has fine foliage, and the plant is represented as being as hardy as a com- 

 mon brier. 



Keio Double Fuchsia — Chavipion of the World. 



This is by far the largest fuchsia we possess. The foot stalks are of unusual 

 length and strength, so that the flowers stand out boldly. The tube is short, the 

 sepals are very broad and of great substance, well reflexed and of a most beautiful 

 coral red. The corolla is of immense size, and as it expands forms two-thirds of a 

 perfect ball, its color being of the most intensely briglit, though dark purple. The 

 plant is of fine growth, tall, and blooms abundantly, so that for conservatory decora- 

 tion it is one of the most valuable fuchsias yet sent out. — Gardener's Chronicle. 



Hardiness of the Primula Japonica. 



The Florist says there can be no doubt of it, for the plants have stood all winter, 

 fully exposed, in the trying atmosphere of London. The Floral Magazine says: 

 " A Primula, a foot and a half high, bearing four or five separate whorls of flowers, 

 each flower an inch in diameter and of a splendid magenta color, and the plant per- 

 fectly hardy ! Can anything be added to this, to indicate its value ?" 



Jflildfii' on. Hoses. 



Carbolic soap and water is recommended to destroy mildew on roses, to be applied 

 by sprinkling. 



Jtetiietlj/ for Slitr/s. 



A correspondent of the Gardener's Chronicle says that he has found gas-tar water, 

 diluted to the color of weak co^ee, to be the best preventive to the ravages of slugs 

 on all garden crops, and also an excellent manure, applying it by nigh', from an ordi- 

 nary watering pot, and half the slugs will be killed, and the rest mueh weakened. 

 A second dose, after the interval of a week, is generally sufficient to banish them 

 altogether. 



Houvitrdin-s as Winter Decorative Plants. 



James Taplin, of South Amboy, N. J., writes the Florist and Pornologist respect- 

 ing the decorative value of the Bouvardia. "A fesv plants of B. Vreelandii would 

 scent a large conservatory at night with the most delicate and pleasant of perfumes. 

 We have another sport from B. Hogarth, called The Bride, which, as regards size, 

 shape of flowers and habit of growth, is the same as Vreelandii, but the color is a 

 beautiful satin rose. I can only compare it to the color in Tea Hose, La France. 

 A few plants of B. jasminoides, treated as shrubs planted in a greenhouse, will give 

 an abundance of flowers at all times." 



