Editorial Notes. 



Subtropical Gnrdenintj. 



Very fine examples of this style were seen this fall, by the members of the Ameri- 

 can Pomolofrical Society, who visited, by invitation, the residences and grounds of 

 Wm. Gray, Jr., and H. H. Hunnewell. 



In front of the greenhouse, at Mr. Gray's, were quite a large number of beds 

 along the paths, planted with rare and novel varieties of geraniums, cannas and orna- 

 mental grasses. 



One bed, circular, consisted of a brilliant, beautiful flowering geranium — the Pivk 

 May Queen. Another was planted with the Chrystal Palace Gem, with scarlet blos- 

 soms and white variegated foliage. Quite a curiosity in gardening was it to see 

 many of the beds edged with a strip of ivy, about a foot wide, growing low over the 

 soil. 



One bed, perhaps the most brilliant of all, consisted of the Gen. Grant Geranium., 

 edged all around with the Golden Fyrethrum as a border. 



In anotlier bed, perfectly circular, and ten feet in diameter, were cannas of vari- 

 ous sorts, with the Achyranthus Verschaflfeltii as border. 



Another bed, ten feet wide by twenty long, was made up of solid mass of Achy- 

 ranthus, then a border of striped grass, while in the center rose one single stem of 

 tall and graceful grass, the variegated Pampas Grass. 



Still another bed, circular, and about ten feet in diameter, had its soil carpeted 

 with the variegated Abutiloii [vexillaria variegata), out of which rises, in the center, 

 cannas and caladiums. 



In the triangle, near the greenhouses, were fifteen beds of difi"erent sizes, beds a 

 perfect mass of Mountain of Snow Geraniums. 



One bed consisted of Gen. Grant Geranium with the pyrethrum as border. 



Another bed has for its border the coleus, and variegated geraniums in the center. 



In the little greenhouse were noticed many pots of ferns, one of which we think is 

 a new and rare species of the "Adiautum." 



A pretty feature there attracted our notice, which we have never seen elsewhere. 

 The sides of the walls of the house were lined with moss, kept moderately moist, and 

 supported by wire rods, crossing frequently like diamonds before it. In this space of 

 enclosed moss was planted and growing Sellaginella or Ferns, one of the prettiest of 

 which is the Silver Fern. 



The idea is a most unique one, and very feasible, as well as successful. 



The Centenninl Horticiilturnl Society, 



The purposes for which this society was organized, was to take such preliminary 

 steps as might be necessary for the management of the Horticultural Department 

 of the Centennial Exposition, and also for the purpose of organizing a National 



