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THE GARDENER'S MONTHL T 



\August^ 



nation as it becomes generally recognized that 

 beauty of efiect can be accepted instead of ex- 

 pensiveness of material, and that inventive tal- 

 ent and artistic taste find one of their worthiest 

 fields of service in adding to the beauty and 

 comforts of our homes." 



Chinese Primroses. — We are glad to see at- 

 tention given to Selecting forms and colors of 

 these popular plants, as there is no reason why 

 there may not be as many kinds with this plant 

 as thei'e are with Cinerarias or other things. 

 Mr. Rupp, of Shiremanstown, Pa., has made 

 special selections, and numbers among his stock 

 the following kinds : 



"With single flowers — white ; dark red, car- 

 mine cast ; scarlet, or bright crimson ; Punctata 

 Elegantissima, velvety crimson, and regularly 

 spotted on the edge with pure white ; new 

 spotted, lilac ground, with blotches of white, 

 and spotted with pure white around the edge ; 

 Sylvania, white, and distinctly blotched with 

 bright crimson. 



With double flowers — dark red, carmine cast ; 

 scarlet, or bright crimson ; fern leaved, dark 

 red; velvety crimson, spotted around the edge ; 

 lilac ground, blotches of white, and spotted on 

 the edge ; pure white. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Begokia Roezlii.— This new species from 

 Mexico is said to be a very distinct character 

 and very beautiful. The flower buds are said to 

 represent the opening of the European Red 

 Poppy, and the expanded flowers are of a beau- 

 tiful red. 



Ranunculus Lyallii. — This is a native of 

 New Zealand, and is remarkable for one of the 

 "Buttercup" family in having flowers white 

 and three inches across. It will probably not 

 prove quite hardy in America. It has recently 

 flowered in England in the collection of Messrs. 

 Yeitch & Sons. 



LoPEZiA CORONATA. — For many years we 

 continued to call attention to the simple but yet 

 rare beauty of the Lopezia as a Winter bloom- 

 ing plant. In spite of our recommendation it 

 has been allowed to disappear, and we should 

 not now know where to look for a plant. It 

 seems to have had the same experience in Eng- 



land, as we judge from the following paragraph " 

 from the Gardener^ s Chronicle: 



"The old Mexican Lopezia coronata is now 

 to be seen in charming condition at Malshanger 

 Park, Basingstoke, the residence of W. S. Por- 

 tal, Esq. Mr. N. Keller, the gardener at Mal- 

 shanger, is using it as a plant for flowering at 

 Christmas, and he has now several examples in 

 full bloom. The plants, which were raised from 

 cuttings in March last, were in June turned out 

 in the open ground for the Summer, and lifted 

 and potted in September. Treated in tms way 

 they have grown into large size, and Mr. Keller, 

 being deficient in house accommodation, had to 

 throw some of the largest away. It is not diffi- 

 cult to have plants three to four feet high, and as 

 many through flowering at Christmas. The 

 Lopezia is not unlike a Fuchsia in its habit of 

 growth, but with much smaller foliage and small 

 reddish colored flowers. After potting in Sep- 

 tember the plants should be placed in a gentle 

 heat to bring them on into bloom. How many 

 fine old things there are that well deserve res- 

 cuing from the obscurity into which they have 

 fallen." 



LiviSTONiA AusTRALis. — " It is the most 

 southern Palm of the Australian continent, 

 reaching the snowy range in latitude 37° 30' S, 

 when its trunk attains eighty feet in height, and 

 extending thence along the west coast to the 

 Illawarra River, in latitude 34° 45' S. It flow- 

 ered annually at Kew, in the Spring months, for 

 many years. The fruits received from Mr. Hill, 

 of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens ; they resem- 

 ble specimens brought by Brown, preserved in 

 the British Museum, except in having a thicker 

 and harder pericarp." — Botanical- Magazine, t^ 

 6274.) 



Cissus Endresii. — Most of our readers know 

 by this time Cissus discolor, which, a hothouse 

 plant in England, delights to be treated as a 

 " Summer Vine" in the open air of our country. 

 One of the prettiest sights of this class we met 

 with a year or two ago, in a plant trained over 

 the entrance door of the State Lunatic Asylum 

 at Nashville, Tenn. It must have covered a 

 space fifteen or twenty feet high all from a 

 single Summer's growth, and made a beautiful 

 temporary supply for the English Ivy which 

 had been killed by the unusual severity of the 

 Winter before. We have another species now 

 becoming known to our cultivators which was 

 introduced a few years ago by Messrs. Veitch & 



