7G Jidltorial JVotes. 



afforded for a display of taste in their arrangement, and the result is always gratify- 

 ing. I have now on niy table two vases under glass shades which are really elegant 

 ornaments, and which, beautiful as many of the wax flowers are, puts them quite in 

 the shade. One vase contains crimson and white Azaleas, dark blue Cineraria, and 

 Maiden-hair Fern ; the other contains three roses, viz., Gloire de Bijon, Priveer's 

 Mary of Cambridge, and Triomphe d' Alencon, with Maiden-hair Fern, and they 

 are the admiration of everyone. The Maiden-hair Fern is as fresh, at the end of a 

 fortnight, thus preserved, as when it was first put in. 



Note. — The idea is a good one, and perhaps the duration of blooming might be 

 still further prolonged by putting the stem of the flowers in white sand, wet, instead 

 of water only. 



Interest in Atnefican Horticulture, 



The Gardener s Chronicle of London, has often published notices of Mr. Wilder's 

 address, and in its issue of August 30, devotes \\ column to notices of the coming 

 25th anniversary of American Pomological Society, with published list of essayists. 



PUiiit for Itochiforli, 



An interesting plant for rockwork is recommended by the Gardener''s Chronicle, to 

 be '■'■ Scabiosa Parnassae.^^ It grows in "hummocks" and has heavy foliage and 

 pale flowers, succeeded by a feathery pappus-like calyx, which gives the plant a very 

 distinct aspect. 



A. If'ine Coral Tree. 



In a Nursery at Dorking, England, there flowered this summer, a fine specimen 

 of the Erythrina Crintagalli. It is supposed to be over 50 years old, and its stump 

 •was 18 inches in diameter. The plant bore 80 spikes of bloom. 



Hnthnieay Excelsior Toimito. 



AVe believe this originated in America, but know not its precise source. Never- 

 theless it has found its way to I^ngland, and a gardener writes to the Gardentr''s 

 Chronicle, that " it is the most acceptable Love apple in cultivation ; it is of mode- 

 rate growth, flowers early, and extremely handsome, probably the handsomest of all 

 the tomatoes, being plump and quite round, devoid of all sutures." 



American Azaleas, 



The Gard.e?iPr^s Chroaicle says "Azalea growing " has reached as high perfection 

 of growing in America as with us." This is given by way of compliment, in special 

 reference to the magnificent display of Azaleas in bloom at Mr. Sargent's, in Brook- 

 line, Mass. The queen of the collection is the variety called Azalea indica decora, 

 a dome shaped plant, of about five feet high, 16 feet in circumference, and bearing 

 more than 3,000 of its superb blossoms. The plant is nearly 30 years old. The 

 entire collection contains about 200 plants, and some idea of its excellence can be 

 gained when it is stated that $1,000 has been offered for it. 



T/ie Iloneysitclile as a Stattdarit, 



A writer in the Villa Gardener thinks that the Honeysuckle is one of the most 

 regularly flowered climbers in cultivation, taking rank for effect, and surpassing in 

 many puints — odor, for instance — even the gorgeous colored clematises, which are in 

 every modern garden. As a standard, the honeysuckle merits the very foremost 

 place in our villa gardens. " We have seen it with thousands of flower umbels in 

 pale yellow and pale pink, decorating villa grounds in a way that no single plant 

 in the mouth of July can do." It is scarcely possible, in words, to portray its 

 extreme beauty and effectiveness. Buy a plant of it (cost not 50 cents), train or tie 

 it to a stout stake, as one would do a standard rose ; prune it not too severely, but 

 in the way a hybrid china rose ought to be done; give it a good soil to grow in, and 

 it needs no further attention. It will grow into a plant that will astonish, by its 

 flowering capacity, thousands and tens of thousands who have not seen it so trained. 



