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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



August, 



a Certificate of Merit from the Royal Botanic ! flora which had seven flowers on it but no fra- 



Society, — and The Garden says it is one of the 

 most valuable additions to Ferns that has been 

 made for a long time." 



grance that could be noticed at all. In 1883 the 

 same plant had twenty-two blooms but still no fra- 

 grance. 1 had a lot of night-blooming Jasmine in 



Davallia tenuifolia Veitchiana. (Sec description, page 233.) 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Nicht-Uloo.ming Cereus. — "W. L. M.," Des 

 Moines, la., writes : " Please tell me if you can 

 if there is more than one kind of Farfugium, and 

 to what class or family of plants it belongs ? Peter 

 H. makes no mention of it in his H. B. of Plants 



that I can find. 



"In 1882 1 had a night-blooming Cereus grandi- der cultivation named by "anybody" night-bloom- 



bloom the first time the Cereus was in bloom and 

 most of the visitors thought it was the Cereus that 

 was so fragrant. But 1 was not so lucky the sec- 

 ond time. 1 should like to hear an explanation 

 from some one, unless I am mistaken in thinking 

 it should have been fragrant." 



[Farfugium grande is the only one noteworthy 

 by flower growers. There are many Cactuses un- 



