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claimed for it. Its habit of growth is very much 1 roots are put into a cold house to flower after 

 like the T. Asiatica, and the flowers are of a deep ' beiii!^ gradually hardened off. The bulbs potted 

 yellow. It is something good. in May are placed in a cold frame and during 



summer fully exposed to the elements ', by Sep- 

 tember some of them are throwing up their flow- 

 er-spikes, and as they continue to do this, intro- 

 duced into heat to expand their flowers. There 

 can now be seen in Mr. Reeves' nursery a con- 

 siderable number of plants in bloom, and still in 

 the open air a very large number coming into 

 flower. The tuberose appears to do well in any 

 light soil, and there is no professional secret of 

 this character in the cultural process. At this 

 time of the year the spikes carry five and six and 

 more of the richly fragrant flowers, but as the 

 days shorten and the fogs abound, the latter 

 cause the topmost buds to decay, and Mr. Reeves 

 states that in the depth of winter one or two 

 flowers only will be perfected. It has been asked 

 will the tuberose flower in the open ground 

 around London ? It might do so if grown on in 

 pots and turned out early in summer as soon 

 as warm enough to do so, but if planted in 

 the open ground it is more than doubtful if the 

 flower would be produced early enough to es- 

 cape the damp and cold of autumn. " 



EuPATORiUM TRiSTE.— This we before cata- 

 logued under the name of Hebeclinum macro- 

 phyllum, under which name we received it, 

 but find that it is properly Eupatorium triste. 

 It is a free, vigorous growing plant, bearing 

 large trusses of white flowers during January 

 and February, filling in the gap of this class of 

 flowers which is left by most of the others bloom- 

 ing either too early or too late. It will be valued 

 as an addition to our winter-blooming plants. 

 — Pete?' Henderson 



Cape Plants. — The singularly beautiful class 

 of flowers known as cape plants are very seldom 

 seen; most of them flower in the winter time, 

 but require only that the temperature should be 

 kept above freezing. It requires some art to 

 keep them healthy through the summer season, 

 — but then it requires some art to raise celery or 

 turnips. The one has to be learned and so has 

 the other, but it is no more diflacult to learn 

 about the one than the other. 



Tuberoses. — When any one is disposed to 

 regret that " we cannot have nice flowers as 

 they have in Europe," let him look at his tube- 

 roses, and then read the following from the 

 Gardeners'' Chronicle : " The cultivation of 

 double tuberoses for their flowers in this country 

 is a remarkable branch of hoi-ticultural enter- 

 prise. A large number of tuberoses are annual- 

 ly imported for this purpose from France, and 

 some clue may be obtained to the quantity when 

 it is stated that Mr. John Reeves, florist, Acton, 

 imports 30,000 annually ; but then he has flow- 

 ers almost all the year round — last year with an 

 intermission of six weeks only, this year he 

 hopes to have an unbroken supply " all the year 

 round." The first batch is potted singly in 

 large 60-pots about Christmas and earlier, and 

 there are successional pottings till May, fresh 

 batches being introduced as required. The bulbs 

 potted at Christmas and onwards are started in- 

 to growth in a brisk bottom-heat and shifted in- 

 to a 48-pot as soon as required, when they have 

 grown to a height of twelve inches or so, and 

 then pushed on into bloom. The later potted 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



PARIS GREEN ON STRAWBERRIES. 



BY G. S., "the maples," NEAR LEXINGTON 

 KENTUCKY. 



As you SO kindly published in your valuable 

 magazine my strawberry feat, perhaps you will 

 further indulge me in a little more bragging. I 



am prepared, sir, to measure crowns with the 

 champion man on strawberries, whoever he may 

 be. I am now setting Monarch of the West 

 ground layers, that are simply immense. They 

 stand fully a foot in height, with great spreading 

 foliage. Weeks ago I measured a Seth Boyden 

 ground layer, transplanted from an April set 

 plant, and found it 19 inches across. But my 



