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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[September, 



had what seemed to be hundreds of its large perhaps among the very first trees introduced 



trumpet-shaped, sweet white flowers. The plant 

 does not stand frost, but it is very easily pre- 

 served during tlie winter in a cellar. It is related 

 to the common Jamestown or " Jinison " weed, 

 which is well known as a troublesome annual in 

 cultivated ground. 



Synonyms of Roses.— It appears modern cata- 

 logues have many new names for old things. 

 The Journal des Roses has recently published a 

 very useful list of them, from which we take the 

 following, which refer to kinds well known in 

 America : 



New Names 



President 



Mad. Plautier 



Clotilde 



Lady Warrender 



Old Roses 

 Adam 

 Albion 

 Bougere 

 Clara Sylvain 

 Countesse de Labarthe 

 Eugenie Jouvain 

 Mme. Bravy 

 Mme. Moi-in 

 Niphetos 



Souvenir d'un Ami 

 Cramoisi superieur 

 Virginale 

 Lamarque 

 Le Pactole 

 Narcisse 



Catharine Guillot 

 Hermosa 

 Leveson Gower 



Louise Odier 



Mistress Bosanquet 



Rugosa rubra flore pleno 



Rugosa rubra flore simplici 



Auguste Mie 



Charles Lefebre 



Clementine Seringe 



Comte de Paris 



Docteur Marx 



La Reine 



Le Lion des Combats 



Louise Peyrony 



Mme. Masson 



Prince Albert 



Queen Victoria 



Souvenir d' Anselnie 



Virginal 



Ducliesse de Brabant 



Mme. Roussel 



Alba rosea, Mme. de Serlot 



Adcl Pradel, Mme. Denis 



Mathilde 



Queen Victoria 



Agrippina 



The Mme. Lacharme 



The Marechal 



Mme. de Challonge 



Enfant de Lyon 



Michel Bonnet 



Melanie Lemarie 



Souvenir de la Malmaison i 



fleurs roses 

 Mme. de Stella 

 The Sapho 

 Himalayensis 

 Regeliana, Taicoun 

 Mme. Rival 

 Marguerite Brassac 

 Pauline Plantier, Mrs. Wood 

 General Hudelot 

 Marquis d' Ailsa 

 Reine du Midi 

 Beaute Francaise 

 Lelia 



Gloire de Chatillon 

 Futur Empereur des Francais 

 Rose-la-Reine a fleurs blanches 

 Enfant d' Ajaccio 

 Mme. Liabaud 



Paulownia imperialts. — This magnificent tree 

 has been in bloom abundantly everywhere this 

 season. The large blue, gloxinia like flowers 

 fill the air with a delicate fragrance, as well as 

 attract by their beauty. The flower buds are 

 formed in the autumn, and are more or less 

 injured by the winter. The past season being 

 mild, the flowers are unusually abundant. The 

 foliage is rather coarse, and the whole habit of 

 the tree ungainly; but its wonderfully rapid 

 growth, as well as its sweet flowers, give it ele- 

 ments of popularity. One of the first trees, 



into the comitry, is now in Independence Square, 

 riniadelphia. It must be about thirty-five years 

 old. It was one of the first lot imported by the 

 late Robert Buist, and presented by him to the 

 city. It is probably eight feet in circumference, 

 and may be sixty feet high. The Japanese, in 

 whose country the tree is native, value it for 

 timber ; but we know of no experiments with it 

 in our land. Should it be of any service in this 

 respect, it would not take long to supply the 

 forest waste if they were planted. 



The Government Grounds at Ottawa. — It is 

 not always that bad grounds are the fault of a 

 gardener in charge — not by any means; but yet 

 great numbers might be brought up to popu- 

 larity if only an intelligent man, with a love for 

 his profession, and good common sense, gets in 

 charge. It is wonderful what enthusiasm from 

 such a quarter will do, to make all around ap- 

 preciate one's work. An illustration of this is 

 in the government grounds around Parliament 

 Hill at Ottawa. Tnese comprise about thirtj'-- 

 five acres, with several large greenhouses. No 

 one cared particularly about them, and what 

 was given in support was rather grudgingly 

 given. But one with a thorough love of his 

 profession got hold of it. He did not bury the 

 one talent because he could not get ten, but did 

 what he could with that which he had. Little 

 by little his work was admired by others as well 

 as enjoyed by himself. Now there are few things 

 the Ottawa folks are more proud of than their 

 government grounds, and Robertson, the super- 

 intendent. 



Japanese Chrysanthemum from Seed. — At the 

 annual dinner of the Borough of Hackney Chrys- 

 anthemum Society on the 6th inst. one of the 

 members produced a batch of seedling Japanese 

 Chrysanthemums, The seedlings were pretty, 

 and not without indications of promise, but 

 necessarily small, and requiring another year's 

 trial. Seedling raising has been termed the 

 poetry of gardening, and those who find pleasure 

 in doing this can add the Japanese Chrj-santhe- 

 mum to other subjects. For greenhouses and 

 conservatory decoration the Japanese varieties 

 are of great value, and the trade growers of 

 Chrysanthemums say that the demand for Ja- 

 panese varieties is largely in excess of the in- 

 curved flowers. As a white Chrysanthemum 

 to grow for cutting from, the Japanese variety 

 Elaine is unsurpassed. — Gardener's Chronicle. 



