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until the middle or latter end of September, after 

 which time they should be placed in gentle warmth, 

 a light house where a fire is made on cold nights 

 being the right place for them. From November 

 onwards a constant temperature of 55° is necessary 

 to keep them in blooming condition. These winter 

 flowering Begonias may be well and easily grown 

 by planting them out in frames for the summer 

 months. Make up a bed of good soil in a light 

 frame, and plant out the first week in June, potting 

 them up again about the middle of September, or 

 earlier if they are large enough. In planting out 

 a richer compost can be given them, as there is 

 not much danger of its becoming sour through 

 over-watering, so that if anything like good treat- 

 ment is afforded them they will be sure to make 

 very luxuriant growth. — Garden. 



Origin of Safrano Rose. — Journal des 

 Roses says this was raised by a passionate rose- 

 lover, Mons. de Beauregard, of Angers, France, a 

 retired officer and chevalier of the Legion of 

 Honor. It was raised from the old yellow tea 

 .rose in 1839. It is, says the journal from which 

 we quote, the most popular of all tea roses in 

 France, "honored alike by the sumptuous dweller 

 under a mansard roof, as well as by the poorest of 

 the poor." Madam Falcot receives great praise 

 from the same paper as a good old rose. 



Rules for Burning Coke. — A recent report on 

 coke and its value, concludes as follows : First, 

 the size of coke used should be a size smaller than 

 that of anthracite for the same purpose. Second, 

 fires should be made deep and broad, and after 

 coke catches, all drafts should be checked ; at 

 night entirely, in most cases. Care must always 

 be taken to keep the supply of coke large, as fire 

 will not be held except in deep bodies of coke. 

 Third, the ashes from coke are a white powder, 

 and free from clinkers, those from coke should 

 contain no slate or waste. — Virginias. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



RiCHARDiA HAST.'VTA.— " C." asks: "Can you 

 inform me of what country the yellow Calla Rich- 

 ardia hastata is a native of, and when and by 

 whom introduced?" [South Africa. — Ed. G. M.] 



Fruiting of a Lemon Tree. — "Subscriber" 

 says: "You suggest, in the December number, 

 that I describe the treatment my lemon tree has 

 received. The tree is in a box, the soil rather 

 porous, perhaps too much so, as the water runs 

 out very soon after I water it. I put a good many 



bones in with the soil thinking it would be good 

 for it. It seems to make good foliage. I keep it 

 in the cellar in winter and water it once a week. 

 It stands in summer about four feet from a brick 

 wall and gets the morning sun. Perhaps the re- 

 flected heat from the wall does not help it?" 



[ From this it will appear that the reason why 

 the plant does not flower is that it is in a vigor- 

 ously growing condition. But this is a good fault. 

 Keep it in the box without repotting, or adding 

 more nutritive material, and as soon as it has ex- 

 hausted itself a little it will, no doubt, flower and 

 fruit profusely. It is much better to have a tree 

 temporarily barren from a healthy cause like this,, 

 than to have one suffering from disease. — Ed. 

 G. M.] 



The Growth of Trees in Catalogues. — The 

 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher thus letteth himself out 

 on something in some "fat" catalogues: "Nobody 

 has the tree I want except in their catalogue, 

 and then, when I send for it it dodges out of that. 

 Does nobody keep it? Is there any such thing? 

 Or is it a myth,— a mere arboreal sprite, without a 

 local habitation, and only a name? 



" I am told — but rapidly am coming to disbe- 

 lieve — that it grows wild, in New Jersey, in Penn- 

 sylvania. Oh, if it were only truel I might set a 

 trap for one — or offer a premium — or send an ex- 

 ploring expedition. But, no. It may exist as a 

 I Berkleyion idea, but not in substance — wood, bark, 

 leaf and cone. 



"Oh this bother about trees! When men have, 

 at length, a home, it is too small for trees. If a 

 large enough ground exists the owner doesn't know 

 anything about trees — doesn't care. If he docs care 

 he can't get them. Nobody has them — except 

 catalogues. If I could only make my trees grow 

 as catalogues do ! Frost don't blight, nor heat 

 burn them. They are gardens of Eden till you 

 try them, and then they turn to barren and waste. 



"Well ! I feel better. 



"Sometime or other don't you want a list of trees 

 which prove hardy at Peekskill? After they have 

 grown a few years I am going to advertise that my 

 grounds are open and at the service of all gentle- 

 men who wish to see, in good size and condition, 

 the more rare trees, and those which prove hardy. 

 I have thirty species of pine." 



A Striped Agrippin.4. Rose. — Walter Coles, 

 Claymont, Del., says: "I have sent you by this 

 morning's mail a striped rose. It came from an 

 Agrippina bush, but all one side seems to have 

 this striped character, same as the one sent you. 



