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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



[September, 



Taylor, of Long Island, Hill, of Richmond, Thorpe, 

 of Queens, Hendricks, of Albany, Benner, of 

 Xenia, and Jordan, of St. Louis, discussed the 

 essay. 



Michel, of St. Louis, discussed good cut flower 

 plants for spring and summer, naming particularly 

 Freesia refracta alba. 



Hot water and steam took up a whole afternoon 

 and evening. A large number of delegates par- 

 ticipated in the discussion, and it was remarkable 

 how much was said in favor of both methods. 



The third day found a good time in a reception 

 by Mayor Probasco at his beautiful residence at 

 Clifton. This beauty spot will never be forgotten 

 by those who participated. Philadelphia was 

 selected as the place of meeting for next year. A 

 new bi-monthly magazine, in the interest of the 

 trade, published in Chicago, was circulated at 

 the meeting, and was warmly received as likely to 

 be of great service to flower growing and flower 

 growers. It is called the American Florist, and 

 seems to have in this first number the elements 

 of complete success. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Maurandva Barclavana. — "Alexa" says: 

 " Can you tell me the history of a plant I greatly 

 admire, and which is known in gardens as the 

 Barclayana Vine ? I have looked through Mr. 

 Henderson's Handbook of Plants, which, by the 

 way, I highly value, without finding anything 

 about it, which omission seems remarkable in a 

 plant so common and so beautiful." 



[Its proper name is Maurandya Barclayana, and 

 it will be found in Henderson under this name. 

 We do not know why it is that flower lovers have 

 dropped the name of the genus for that of the 

 species in this case. It looks like a determined 

 effort on the part of flower lovers to ignore the 



honor to a lady which this pretty Mexican genus 

 was intended to establish. The author of the name, 

 Ortega, says it is for "Donna Catherina Pancratia 

 Maurandy, wife of Don Augustin Juan, Professor 

 in the Royal Botanic Garden of Carthagena — a 

 learned lady, a sharer, if not indeed a leader in her 

 husband's botanical labors." But all our text books 

 give the honor to "Dr. Maurandy, Professor of 

 Botany in Carthagena." It is remarkable that after 

 the botanists should have dropped the lady, ladies 

 themselves, whom we supposed started " Barclay- 

 ana Vine," should have also given to a man the 

 honor intended forthe Professor's wife. — Ed.G.M.] 



Lily of the Valley. — A correspondent in- 

 forms us that in the farming districts of Pennsyl- 

 vania, about Reading, the common people univer- 

 sally call Pyrola rotundifolia, one of the winter 

 greens. Wild Lily of the Valley. 



Old Olive Groves in Florida. — A Doyles- 

 town, Pa., correspondent writes ; "About three years 

 ago I wrote asking thee the name of a grove of ex- 

 ceedingly crooked, twisted, gnarled trees, at the 

 mouth of the St. Johns, Florida. After persistent 

 inquiry it turned out to be an Olive'grove, planted, 

 I doubt not, by early settlers of that part of our 

 coast. It seems there is another Olive grove on 

 an island (Sullivan's) on the coast of Georgia. All 

 the name we could get for these^trees^when there, 

 was, the 'Devil-tree.' " 



Queer Names. — A correspondent says: "It is 

 amusing how plants get queer names. ' Joseph 

 on the palings ' for Josephine de Malines Pear- 

 reminds me of a joke of a similar kind. Recently 

 a lady friend going through my garden asked a 

 ' name which I told her was a kind of Lythrum. I 

 was surprised some days afterward to be told that 

 I the ' Bed-room ' plant I had called her attention 

 to, was certainly a beautiful thing. She wished 

 me to note by this reference that she had remem- 

 bered the name." 



Horticultural Societies. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



DUTCH PRIZES FOR AMERICAN EXHIBI- 

 TIONS. 

 BY J. H. KRKLAAGE. 



The General Union for the Cultivation of Bulbs, 



under the patrona'ge of the King of the Netherlands, 



at Haarlem, Holland, has in view to promote by j Pennsylvania Horticultural Society at|PhiIadclphia 



all proper means, the love for flowers in general, 

 and in particular the growing, and consequently 

 the trade in flower roots; and to this end offer to 

 the leading horticultural societies of the United 

 States, out of their funds, prizes for hyacinths in 

 bloom at the spring exhibitions of 1886. These 

 offers have been accepted with thanks by the 



