144 



THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[May, 



so harmonizing with the rich yellow as to pro- 

 duce a gorgeous effect. — B. S. Williams, London, 

 England. 



Double Zonale Geranium, Robert Buist. 

 AUegatiere the world renowned French raiser 

 of Double Zonale Geraniums, has dedicated one 

 of his best seedlings to Mr. Robert Buist, of 

 Philadelphia. " Robert Buist" claims to be the 

 best double scarlet out to the present time •, 

 stands the sun and open air culture, as well as 

 forming a fine conservatory plant for Winter 

 blooming. We may take occasion to remark 

 that though on account of his advanced age, this 

 distinguished florist withdrew from the heavier 

 lines of the nursery business during the centen- 

 nial year, he still does quite a large trade in the 

 lighter ones ; especially in new or rare green- 

 house plants. 



Agave Parryi. — This comparatively new 

 Agave, named in honor of Dr. C. C. Parry, is 

 now flowering for the first time under culture in 

 Mr. Shaw's Botanic Garden at St. Louis. Thi^ 

 valuable plant was obtained at considerable ex- 

 pense a year ago from Lake Mimbre in New 

 Mexico. A twenty-year-old plant of Buona- 

 parteajuncea flowered the past Winter in the 

 same collection. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Destroying Wood Lice. — L. Bros., Buffalo, 

 N. Y.,find trouble in their cut flower cellar from 

 wood lice, and ask a remedy. These pests are 

 fond of boiled potatoes ; put pieces in new flower 

 pots, with nice new hay over the potatoes. They 

 will find favorite food and shelter there, and can 

 be caught by the score. 



Seedling Ci^clamens. — It is not generally 

 known that Cyclamens will flower the first year 

 from seed. With some remarkabl}'^ beautiful 

 flowers came the following note from Mr. D. 

 Barker, of Norfolk, Ya. : 



" By this day's mail I forwarded to your ad- 

 dress a box of Cyclamen bloom. Cyclamen Per- 

 sicum. They are from plants the seed of which 

 was sown June, 1877, and Feb., 1878. On one 

 plant, the rosy white, there is by actual count 

 upwards of seventy perfect flowers, and while 

 the individual flowers are not as large as gigan- 

 tium,the plants are much more profuse in flower- 

 ing. The Mimulus' are from an improved strain 



of my brother's, in Europe. The size and color 

 speak for themselves." [These Mimulus' were 

 truly beautiful. — Ed. G. M.] 



The Fuchsia Illustration.— H. L., Oak 

 Park, 111., writes : " Is it not an original way of 

 raising specimen plants, viz., copying illustra- 

 tions ? The specimen Fuchsia purporting to be 

 raised by Mr. Wm. Grieves is a copy of Can- 

 nell's Miss Lucy Finnis ; the illustration has 

 been in my possession for three years, also the 

 plant. It is a beautiful variety, but does not 

 always grow just like the illustration, at least 

 not with me. I refer to the specimen Fuchsia 

 in March number of Gardener's Monthly." 



[It was our wish to illustrate our point about 

 the proper way to grow Fuchsias, and the " illus- 

 tration of a specimen " which we used we asked 

 from the Greenbrook Nurseries, to whom it was 

 only right that we should give the credit, and 

 not to Mr. Cannell. There is no injustice in 

 this, for we have no doubt the G. & P. Nurseries 

 bought the cut of Mr. Cannell, and did not 

 copy it. Our correspondent is not perhaps 

 aware that this is a very common practice in 

 literary work. In a very popular English book, 

 widely read in this country, are cuts in use in 

 De Breul's works, but we happen to know that 

 they are not copies, but originally bought of the 

 first owner.— Ed. G. M.] 



Carnation, Peter Henderson. — Mr. W. 

 A. Bock, North Cambridge, Mass., writes : 

 "Noticing in your March number an article 

 frem Messrs. Nanz & Neuner, of Louisville, 

 Ky., in which they state that they believe some 

 Eastern florists sent out last spring the Peerless 

 or Edwardsii Carnation instead of Peter Hen- 

 derson, I would state that I know it to be a 

 fact that certain florists in New York swindled 

 some of my neighbors in this manner. I re- 

 ceived my stock from Messrs. Nanz »fe Neuner, 

 and although they were in pretty feeble condi- 

 tion (being old plants), I have been able to raise 

 a large stock of them. I think it a very valu- 

 able acquisition to the white flowering Carna- 

 tions." 



Names of Plants. — A. N. P., Cromwell. 

 Conn. The " air plant " yon send belongs to the 

 spiderwort family, and is Chlorophytuni Stern- 

 bergianum. The other is Bougainvillea specta- 

 bilis, an old j^lant, flowering but occasionally, 

 and which was used a few years ago in '' scean- 

 ces" as "flowers from the spirit land." 



