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be appreciated by all. Its color is much like the 

 celebrated Jacqueminot, but its size and shape are 

 like a good Niphetos ; its fragrance is unsurpassed 

 by any other Tea rose ; in fact it far excels the beau- 

 tiful La France. This rose will certainly fill along 

 felt want, and will take the place of the Jacque- 

 minot. Clavmont, Del. 



CANNA IRIDIFLORA EHEMANNI. 



BY D. S. HEFFRON. 



In the October number of the Gardeners' 

 Monthly, Mrs. R. B. Edson has an article under 

 the heading of " Summer Notes." The writer does 

 not find fault with the article, but especially com- 

 mends that portion of it referring to duplicate 

 names, to the careful attention of such as grow 

 plants for sale. There can be no justifiable apo- 

 logy for the frequent examples of such mistakes.( ?) 

 After I had flowered the really fine Canna Iridi- 

 ilora, Ehemanni, under the two parts of the name, 

 I wrote a firm of florists that I thought would be 

 likely to know, and inquired if the two were not 

 one and the same. By due course of mail the fol- 

 lowing answer was received, "Ehemanni is Iridi- 

 flora, or, correctly, Iridiflora is Ehemanni." The 

 writer seems to claim, without stating it, that Ehe- 

 manni was the original name. Now, recalling the 

 custom of many growers in Europe to follow the 

 name of the plant by their own, to designate that 

 they are the originators, I have ventured to 

 "guess" that the originator of this superb Canna 

 bears the name Ehemann, and that he named it 

 Iridiflora. When it was catalogued by the grower 

 or some one else, it was under the form of the 

 name that first appears in this card above. If my 

 supposed explanation of the two names for the 

 same Canna is not correct, will some one of the 

 readers of your valuable journal, who knows the 

 original name and by whom the plant was origin- 

 ated, set me right ? When I am in pursuit of in- 

 formation, I am quite willing to have the error 

 involved in a "guess" pointed out. 



Note.— If my explanation is correct, or is shown 

 to be wrong, who will pay back to innocent buyers 

 what they have invested in duplicate plants ? 



Washington Heights, III. 



[Florists in good standing cannot be too parti- 

 cular about accuracy in the names of plants. 

 Nothing hurts the reputation more than mistakes 

 in this particular. With the best intentions, how- 

 ever, mistakes cannot always be helped, nor can 

 the injury be helped that is sure to follow to the 

 one who makes it. — Ed. G. M.l 



NOTES ON NEW PLANTS. 



BY M. H. LESTER. 



Several years ago, when I first commenced to 

 take the Monthly, I never read the advertise- 

 ments ; now, they are the first part I look over, to 

 see if there be anything new. We get all novel- 

 ties, whether plants or seeds, likely to do well 

 here. I got seed of Impatiens Sultani when it 

 was first advertised in London. It is the best new 

 thing we have found in a long time. I have one 

 plant now that was out all summer, in a 7- 

 inch pot, covered with bloom. Tops taken ofif 

 about three weeks ago, are now in thumbs, with 

 four and five flowers on each. Tops of Ginura 

 aurantiaca, taken off in the fall, look real pretty 

 now in 3 and 4-inch pots, but it is coarse and 

 weedy looking planted out. The best three flow- 

 ering plants here, at this time, are, Centropogon 

 Lucianus, Delechampia Roesliana rosea, and 

 Meyenia erecta. In climbing plants we have 

 nothing comes near to Ipomoea Horsfallii. 



Some one going through one of our houses a 

 day or so ago, asked me what " Solanum " some- 

 thing was ? Well, it was Luculia gratissima, and 

 the more I look at it, the more it does look like 

 some Solanum. 1 don't think I care so much 

 about Luculia gratissima as I did. [You will 

 when it flowers freely. — Ed. G. M.] 



Jasmineum gracillimum does not come up to 

 my expectations. Along with some of the newer 

 varieties of Rex Begonias received last season 

 from London, I got two flowering varieties, name- 

 ly, Amabilis and Ascotensis, highly recommended 

 as winter bloomers. I have several good healthy 

 plants of each in 5-inch pots, but I don't think I 

 shall ever know, by them, when winter has ar- 

 rived over the water, for as yet, they don't look as 

 if they ever would bloom. 



Parties often inquire of me the reason their 

 Dendrobiums never appear to grow so well as 

 when they put them to rest. I have not much 

 time for correspondence, and it might be as good 

 a time as any for your correspondent. Epiphyte, 

 if he could spare the time, or some one else that 

 can put it in words better than I, to explain this. 

 Circumstances don't admit of getting them just 

 right all the time myself. The time for rest is the 

 season we have most rain here ; consequently 

 more moisture in the atmosphere. And besides, I 

 have to rest them amongst growing plants. I 

 know some amateurs who get them to perfection, 

 and no one puts a hand to them but themselves. 

 Gardener to Prof. Richardson, New Orleans. 



