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THE GARDENERS MONTHLY 



[February, 



The enormous size and good quality of the fruit 

 will undoubtedly make it a valuable article of 

 commerce, while the ornamental character of 

 the shrub will recommend it for lawns or hedges. 

 Perfectly hardy around N. Y. — P. Henderson. 



Improvement of the Common Garden Mari- 

 gold. — Among the ti-iumphs of modern garden 

 art is the taking up of old garden flowers, and 

 making them yield to the improving ideas of the 

 florist. Every body knows the common garden 

 pot Marigold ; and, pretty and popular as it is, 

 who would suppose that after culture for so many 

 hundred years, anything more could be made of 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



CALENDULA OFFICINALIS, METEOR. 



it? Yet here we have a drawing of one sent out 

 by Haage & Schmidt of Erfurt, and which they 

 call " Meteor," which is as " double as a daisy." 

 Besides the double flower it has the novelty of a 

 pale orange stripe down the centre of each straw 

 colored petal. Now that improvement has been 

 started, we shall expect a race of new kinds in 

 this popular garden flower. 



The Diamond Tuberose. — We are crowded 

 this month, and have hardly room for all the 

 long correspondence on hand in regard to this 

 plant. It seems sufficient to note that Nanz 

 & Neuner say they were aware that an attempt 

 was made to impose on two eastern firms a kind 

 which was " far from being the Diamond which 

 we offer." They "know it to be just as they repre- 

 sented it," except that it was an error to say as 

 we did, "five to eight inches ;" it should be " fif- 

 teen to eighteen inches." But, since the ques- 

 tion has been raised, they decided not to sell till 

 they had exhibited plants this summer, so that 

 all could see for themselves. This seems fair 

 enough. 



The Drop Worm. — W. F. Bassett, Hamraon- 

 ton., N. J., writes : '• If I understand what you 

 call ' Bag. or Drop Worm,' I think you are in 

 error on one point. Some of the cocoons are 

 doubtless emptj', but others are full of eggs for 

 next year's crop, and if all of them are care- 

 fully collected now and burned, there will be 

 none next year; as the full-grown cocoons are, 

 from their color and size, much easier seen than 

 the small ones, this comparatively leisure sea- 

 son is a much better time to destroy them than 

 summer." 



[Mr. Bassett is right. The statement was one 

 of those unaccountable slips sometimes made 

 for which there is no excuse. — Ed. G. M.] 



Hardiness of Rose Reine Marie Henri- 

 ETTE. — Mr. Terwilliger, of Saratoga, N. Y., 

 writes : " Please state that the rose ' Reine 

 Marie Henriette,' stood outside uncovered dur- 

 ing the winter '80 and '81, mercury going to 32° 

 below zero, and came out nicely, bloomed all 

 summer and is now in bloom (Sept. 6). La 

 France was by them, also unharmed, plenty of 

 snow to cover them." 



Greenhouse and House Gardening. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



CULTIVATION 



OF THE 

 MUM. 



CHRYSANTHE- 



BY D. RHIND, 



With very little 

 ment I have good success with these, 



canandaigua, n. y. 

 care and simple treat- 



I propa- 



gate in March ; as soon as well rooted pot them 

 in two and a half or three inch pots, pinch- 

 ing them if they grow too lanky before planting 

 out, which I do as soon as the ground can be 

 got ready. They should be placed in a cool 

 house or frame for a few days previous to setting 

 out; frost won't hurt them if so treated. When 



