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GARDENING. 



Dec. /5, 



langTiage '"Aloec." The bud is ven- large, 

 and when the flowers are open they 

 measure 6 to 12 inches across, and are 

 very fragrant. Can you tell me the Eng- 

 lish name of it and where I can buy a 

 plant?" 



There is a mistake somewhere. The 

 flower buds of anj' plants we know when 

 they open don't make a loud noise, but 

 the seed pods of many plants when they 

 burst open give a cracking sound, for in- 

 stance I room or furze in a warm sunnj- 

 morning in Germany, many members of 

 the balsam and oxalis family, and wis- 

 tarias. Just for the fun of it get a few 

 wistaria pods now — if you haven't any 

 write us and we'll gladly mail you some— 

 and lay them on the mantel near the 

 stove; when they get well dried they will 

 astonish you by the loudness of the noise 

 or "report" they make in bursting open. 

 What we call artillery plant \Pilea) 

 makes a great ado in firing its tiny floral 

 guns, but one can hardly hear the noise; 

 we can see the "smoke" though. 



Hoping to solve the mystery we have 

 asked Mrs. W. Seliger, a devoted gar- 

 dener and talented German lady in Con- 

 necticut to help us. She replies: 



"With the greatest pleasure I will try 

 to solve the riddle of the plant's name as 

 described, though the report ot a gunshot 

 when opening its flowers seems to me 

 greatly exaggerated. In Germany as 

 well as here many flower names are en- 

 tirely difterently in different sections of 

 the country. Our calendula is there com- 

 monly called "Mother GoUing," and so I 

 might name many more What is grown 

 under the name of Aloe or ' Brandbaum" 

 (burn-tree) in Germany is our A]oe vera, 

 ofwhioli I too have a fine specimen (all 

 the Germans regard it with a tender 

 afl'ection), but I have never seen it in 

 bloom, although I remember the plant 

 from my earliest youth on at home. Per- 

 haps the lady inquiring about it means 

 it, I mail a little slip of my aloe to you, 

 to be sure about what I mean; my orig- 

 inal plant came from Germany. [Your 

 I^lant is Aloe vera. We have had it in 

 bloom. But in all of its actions, flower- 

 ing and seeding, it is a remarkably quiet 

 succulent. — En.] Another possibility is 

 that a night blooming cereus is meant. 

 [The large buds and flowers, beauty and 

 fragrance would fit the cereus, but then it 

 makes no noise inany of its actions. — Ed.] 



fl T«ISTIE-L1KE FLflNT. 



E's neighbor "wants to give me a 

 thistle-like plant which I think is Ono- 

 pordoti Acanthium, the Scotch thistle. I 

 would like to plant it near my rockery, 

 to stand alone. Is it biennial or peren- 

 nial? Will it become a selfsowing weed 

 like a Canada thistle?" 



.4ns. This onopordon or cotton thistle 

 is when well grown a bold and handsome 

 plant. It is biennial with us. While it 

 will self-sow itself under favorable cir- 

 cumstances there isn't the least danger 

 of it becoming a weed like the Canada 

 pest. Don't take your neighbor's plant, 

 liecause it is too old to move safely. Get 

 a packet of seeds in spring, sow them 

 where you want them to grow, and when 

 they come up thin them out to one 

 thrifty extra cottony plant. If you want 

 a handsome thistle-like isolated specimen 

 plant try a globe artichoke. It is both 

 handsome in leaf and flower, and you can 

 cut the leaves and use them in indoor 

 decoration to set off big flowers in large 

 hall vases. 



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