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9BUch trouble taken. A correspondent of the 

 London Gardener''s Chronicle thus describes how 

 he does it: "In Februar}- last I sowed some 

 seeds on three-year-old Mountain Ash in nursery 

 lines, my plan being to rub the berry on a 

 smooth part of the stock about two or three feet 

 from the ground, till almost all the viscid mat- 

 ter was removed from the stone, leaving only as 

 much as would cause the stone to adhere to the 

 stock. On examining them in June I found 

 about seventy per cent, had taken, each stone 

 having produced a protuberance from each end, 

 which was firmly fixed in the bark. They con- 

 tinued so till !N"ovember, early in which month 

 I left the district, but at that time all seemed as 

 if ready to burst into activity at the first oppor- 

 tunity. The experiment was made on the east 

 coast of Scotland, not more than half a mile from 

 salt water, in a sheltered locality." 



A Late Magxolia. — Magnolia hypoleuca 

 has been mentioned and commended more than 

 once, for many noteworthy qualities. It is late, 

 blooming in mid- June, cream3'-white like con- 

 :spicua, and moreover, of a scent so sweet that 

 for the want of a truer comparison, I will liken 

 it to the combined odor of strawberries and ba- 

 nanas. I know of no magnolia so delicious, un- 

 less it be the tender M. fuscata. Now all this is 

 a great deal for a single species to possess in the 

 way of delightful qualities. But nature seems 

 disposed to give even more, for the foliage of M. 

 hypoleuca is simply exquisite. I refer more es- 

 pecially to the young leaves, although the older 

 leaves have fine red stems and glossy green on 

 iheir broad surfaces. But the young leaves with 

 thinner, more delicate texture, show this red in 

 the veinings and even farther throughout the 

 general green to the extent of a faint tint or 

 tone. The result is a suffusion of most delicate 

 purples lined out with red veins. Held up 

 against strong sunlight the effect is greatly en- 

 hanced by the translucent character of the leaf. 

 Portions of the foliage in ordinary lights thus 

 assume a curious bronze color, as a result of the 

 mingling of shades, and the distinct white of the 

 under side makes the appearance still more re- 

 markable. I dwell particularly on the foliage 

 of this new and rare magnolia that I may enter 

 a plea for the beauty of leaves generally. 

 Flowers are so valued and set above mere foli- 

 age, that the latter, though in many cases quite 

 as exquisite, receives scant justice. — Samuel 

 Parsons in Rural New Yorker. 



European Bedding Plants. — The Gard- 

 ener\s Weekly, gives the following as the most 

 popular bedding plants in the London Park. 



Geranium Kobert Fis)i, 

 Dayl)reak, 

 Master Christine, 



Altcnianantliera spathulata, 



liaronychyoides, 



major, 



amu'iia, 



spectaliilis, 



mannifica, 



vei'sieolnr, 



amaliilis latifolia, 

 AcliyrofliDC .Saundersi, 

 Agathea ca-lestis, 

 Ajuga reptans rubra, 

 Ageratum Imperial Dwarf, 

 Achillea umbellata. 

 Cineraria acanthicfulia, 



marilima compacta, 



asplenifolia. 

 Convolvulus raauritaniius, 



minor, 

 Ceutaurea gymnocarpa, 



ragusina compacta 

 Campanula turbinata hydrida, 

 Chanifepeuce diacantlia, 

 Cerastium tomentosum, 

 Coleus VerschafFelti sjilendens, 

 Dactylis glomerata elegantis- 



sima, 

 Echeveria secunda glauca, 

 metallica 



glauca metallica. 

 Fuchsia Golden Fleece, 

 Funkia undulata, 

 Gazania splendens, 

 (inaphalium lanatura, 

 tomentosum. 



Elegantissima, 



Rose Bradwardiiic, 



Little (iolden Cliristine, 

 Golden ryrethrum, 

 Helichrysum maritimum, 

 Iresiuc I..indeni, 



Herbstii, 

 Kleinia repens, 

 Leucophyton Browni, 

 Lobelia speciosa, 



Blue King, 



Stonei, 



Bonnet, 



Omen, 



White Perfection, 



Porcelain Brilliant, 



Mazarine Gem, 



pumila granditlora, 

 Oxalis corniculata rubra, 

 Pachyphyton bracteosuni, 

 Stcllaria graniinea aurea, 

 Sempervivum niontanum, 



arachuoideum, 

 Senecio argenteus, 



incanus, 

 Teucrium Polium, 

 Tagetes signata i)iimila, 

 Viola lutea miijor, 



Purjile tiueen. 

 Verbena Purple King, 



Sportsman. 



LIST OF ANNUALS EMPLOYED. 



Amarantlius melancholicus ru- 

 ber, 



Atriplex hortensis 



Asperula azurea setosa, 



Alonsoa Warscewiczii compac- 

 ta, 



Alyssuni maritimum, 



Bartonia aurea, 



Clarkia alba, 



Cliiitonia pulchella, 



Celosia Huttoni, 



Eschseholtzia crocea. 



Godetia 



Lupinus nanus. 



Marigold (French miniature) 



Malo])e granditlora. 



Nasturtium, 



Nemesia compacta, 



Nemophila compacta, 



Petunia, 



Phlox Drummondii, 



Saponaria calabrica, 



Senecio, 



Viscaria. 



The Deutzias.— The Deutzias in nurseries 

 are not well understood; the following from the 

 American Agriculturist, is timely, and will help 

 to clear up the confusion : 



" The various Deutzias are among my favorite 

 flowering shrubs ; I have endeavored to procure 

 all the species and varieties offered by our nur- 

 serymen, and the labels said that I had them all. 

 I noticed that there was a close similarity be- 

 tween my D. scabra and D. crenata, but gave 

 them no close examination, until a note in Gray's 

 Garden Botany, to the effect that D. crenata was 

 generally cultivated as D. scabra, induced me 

 to look at them more closely, when I found that 



