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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



{June, 



florists. It is a sister to the charming blue 

 Lobelia erinoides, but the flowers are golden 

 yellow, or brilliant orange, and a little larger 

 than its blue relative. It continues in flower 

 from June till Autumn. It will be a precious 

 plant for carpet bedding, as yellow flowers are 

 scarce." 



Rose, Queen of Bedders. — Mr. John Saul i 

 has introduced this famous English Rose. Writ- 

 ing to the English Gardeners'' Chronicle:, Mr. 

 Charles ^N'oble says of it : 



" Queen of Bedders can be seen in unwonted 

 beauty at this moment. A bed twenty-five by 

 fifty feet has 22,500 buds and flowers upon it. 

 It belongs to the Bourbon class, color a rich 

 glowing crimson, very double, sind blooms from 

 early Summer up to frost." 



Rose, Hybrid Perpetual, E. Y. Teas. — 

 The Garden has a colored plate of this beautiful 

 rose, with the following remarks by George 

 Paul : 



"E. Y. Teas is, perhaps, the finest shaped 

 of any of the Hybrid Perpetuals, and no prettier 

 sight can be seen in the rose nursery than rows 

 of this beautiful kind in full bloom. J^Tearly 

 every flower is perfect, and the difliculty is, when 

 cutting for exhibition, to choose the most beau- 

 tiful. "Would it were rather more vigorous, says 

 the rose grower ; but, alas ! how few things are 

 perfect. It is very free flowering, and is richly 

 scented. The raiser of it is M. Eugene Verdier, 

 of Paris, to whom we are indebted for many 

 good roses." 



Azalea, Queen of India. — Messrs. Aguste 

 T'anGeert & Co., Ghent, Belgium, have issued a 

 beautiful colored lithograph of this new double 

 Azalea, which really seems a great step in ad- 

 vance, though new Azeleas are very abundant. 

 The flowers are repi'esented as four inches across, 

 crimson, rose, with mottled white on the edges. 

 The interior petals are numerous as in Double 

 Petunias, and of the same shades of color as in 

 the flve very broad outer petals. 



Begonia prismatocarpa. — This is au at- 

 tractive little plant for a stove or intermediate 

 house. The foliage is small, and the plant is 

 very dwarf; the flowers are pale yellow, the 

 perianth segments being faintly streaked with 

 orange near the base. It succeeds in a pan 

 three to four inches deep with a soil of peat, 

 loam, and sand, and requires good drainage. It 

 is a native of Fernando Po. — Journal of Horti- 

 culture. 



New Camelias. — The improved Camelias 

 still continue popular in England. Some seed-' 

 lings by Mr. C. M. Hovey, of Cambridge, Mass., 

 have been well received; and plants of them 

 sold by auction have brought good prices. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



MESE3IBRYANTHEMUM — C.E.P., asks : "Have 

 any readers of the Gardeners' Monthly suc- 

 ceeded in raising Mesembryanthemum cordi- 

 folium varigatum or Cobcea scandens variegata 

 from seed?" 



Abutilons. — C. E. P., inquires: "Will you 

 please inform me through the Gardeners' 

 Monthly what is the difference between Abu- 

 tilon Mesopolamicum and A. vexillarium ? I 

 always supposed that they were the same, but 

 in the catalogue of the Greenbrook and Pater- 

 son Nurseries for 1879, I notice that they are 

 described as diff"erent and distinct varieties. In 

 what respect do they difler ? And in what re- 

 spect does A. vexillarium differ from A. vexil- 

 larium brillatissimum '? Is it an improvement 

 in name only?" 



Beautiful Roses. — With some remarkably 

 beautiful roses which we suppose to be Niphetos, 

 we have the following note from Mr. Daniel 

 Barker, of Norfolk, Ya : " I send you by this 

 day's mail, sample of rose buds the same kind 

 as grown in France for the Paris flower market, 

 and which figure so conspicuously there. It has 

 been said that they cannot be cultivated and 

 brought to the perfection here as in ' La belle 

 France.' Did you ever see them finer or more 

 perfect in Paris, or in any other part of Europe? 

 It will keep for three or four days longer in bud 

 than any other rose we have." 



Cyclamens in One Year. — It is not gener- 

 erally known that good flowering plants can be 

 had in one year. Mr. Daniel Barker sends some 

 nice photographs on one of which there appears 

 dozens of flowers, and which would not be 

 thought mean even for a specimen plant for ex- 

 hibition. With it comes the following explana- 

 tion : " I enclose photographs of two Cyclamen 

 Persecum, the seeds of which were sown July, 

 1877. The smaller one had upwards of seventy 

 expanded flowers at one time; the larger one 

 not so floriferous as the former, but much larger 

 flower, equal toPersicumgrandiflorum. I enclose 



