Floral Notes. 



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Tobacco smoke is well-known as a specific remedy for the minute insects infesting 

 roses and otlier garden plants. Sometimes a keg turned bottom upwards over the 

 plants will suffice to confine the smoke sufficiently, but a better method is to place a 

 newspaper aijound the plant, with its lower edge snug upon the ground, and its top 

 portion gathered together and tied with a string, the paper thus forming an imper- 

 vious envelop about the plant. It is a question whether the fumigation of plants 

 may not be applied to those of larger growth and more common or extended cultiva- 

 tion than garden shrubs, but our experiments in this line, made some years ago, while 

 satisfactory in showing that the smoke of cheaper materials than tobacco will suffice 

 to kill the insects, were decided failures in their practical results. The experiments 

 were instituted to determine whether the means indicated could be applied to effect the 

 destruction of the hop aphis, which destroys annually tens of thousands of dollars' worth 

 of that costly crop. On hop leaves thickly infested with the aphis, the smoke of any 

 vegetable refuse was found sufficient to kill the vermin when the leaves were confined, 

 a few at a time, within a closed receptacle. But on surrounding a hill of hops (the 

 vines upon the poles in the usual manner) with a tall shell made of paper pasted on 

 wooden frames, and filling this shell or envelop with smoke from a brazier, no visible 

 effect was produced on the insects. It was found impossible to make the portable 

 envelop perfectly tight, and the admission of air to dilute the smoke was doubtless the 

 cause of the failure, and this difficulty is one apparently impossible to overcome. — Ex, 



New flauts. 



Young's uXew Golden Chinese Juniper, Junlperus chlnensis aurea. 



Of this orntmental evergreen, now creating such a stir in England, the Gardener''s 

 Chronicle says : 



" Certainly one of the foremost places amongst golden-leaved Conifers, must be 

 accorded to Mr. Maurice Young's Juniperus chinensis aurea. The Chinese Juni- 

 per is well known as one of the hardiest and handsomest of Coniferous shrubs ; and 

 when we state that the novelty just referred to is the exact counterpart of its parent, 

 in all but its color, and that that color is equal at least in richness of hue to any gol- 

 den Conifer hitherto known, but little further mention of it is needed. We may 

 however add, from a recent personal inspection of the stock, that it is thoroughly 

 constant. Not a plant amongst the entire stock shows the least tendency to run 

 back ; but all. whether infants of six inches or adolescents of three feet high, appear 

 in the same aristocratic ' cloth of gold ' array. * * * Our notes indicate that 

 the propagated plants take on a close pyramidal habit, and have moreover the two- 

 fold character of foliage which is seen in the parent, and that the color of the more 

 prominent portions of the plants is as bright as the tint of a Golden Holly. Taking 



