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* ' * GARDENING. 



Dec. /, 



Gloire de Dijon.— Salmon-yellow, climb- 

 ing, very free blooming. 



Hermosa.— Bright rose, very free. 



Kaiserin Augusta Victoria.— White, 

 tinted with yellow in center, a fine sum- 

 mer bloomer. 



La France. — Silvery rose, very free. 



Joseph Metral.— Climbing, vigorous; a 

 fine cerise flower. 



Mme. Georges Bruant. — Pure white, 

 but of little use for cutting. 



Marie Van Houtte.— Paleyellow, tinted 

 rose. 



Mme. Caroline Testout.— Silvery rose, 

 quite double; free. 



beauty of its large panicles of white flow- 

 ers, which come in July, when but few 

 shrubs or treesare in bloom. Besides this 

 when once planted it takes care of itsell 

 very well, and when a year or two have 

 passed by and it has formed a good sized 

 clump it produces one or more panicles 

 every year. Hereabouts it has the com- 

 mon name of Adam's needle; the bayonet- 

 like leaves with thread-like filaments 

 hanging from them readih' suggesting 

 the thought of needle and thread. 



This yucca is what is called an acaules- 

 cent species, that is. it makes no woody 

 stem or trunk. There is, however an- 



VASE OF CHRYSANTHEMUM MRS. JEROME JONES. WHITE. 



There is still another one which makes 

 a trunk, which has lived out of doors 

 here for several winters, and seems to 

 have got a firm hold on life. It is the 

 gloriosa. Wood's Class Book of Botany 

 says it makes a stem three feet high, but 

 I have seen them with trunks eight feet 

 high in the south of England. This one 

 is the most robust looking of all yuccas, 

 and when in flower it is a magnificent 

 object. 



The Spanish Dagger, Yucca aloifolia, I 

 have not seen tried out of doors here. It 

 has narrow, rigid leaves, and is often 

 found ten or twelve feet high in its wild 

 state. There is a variegated -leaved vari- 

 ety of it. I lately saw one in a tub which 

 was in flower. It was the first time it 

 had bloomed, though the owner had pos- 

 sessed it for nearly forty 3'ears and had 

 known of it ten years before that. It 

 was but six feet high. It is probable that 

 had it been out of doors in a favora'° 

 place it would have bloomed much sooner. 

 Perhaps some southern reader can tell us 

 the age they usually are when tliey first 

 bloom. 



If these partly tender plants, as they 

 are supposed to be, can be coaxed along 

 in Philadelphia, all points south should 

 be able to succeed well with them. 



It will not do to omit mention of the 

 Rocky mountain yucca, avgustifolia. Of 

 course it is quite hardy, to start with. 

 It has extremely narrow leaves. The 

 flowers are produced as those of the oth- 

 ers are but they appear earlier, in June 

 with us, a month before filamentosa. 

 Like the last named it mak s no woodv 

 stem; the flower spikes start from the 

 ground, as it were. 



Yuccas should be transplanted in the 

 spring, following the rule for all fleshy 

 rooted things, as these are. There will 

 be found long, fleshy, yam-like roots, and 



Marie Guillot— White tinted yellow, 

 large. 



Mme. Agathe Nabonnand —Salmon, 

 shaded rose; free. 



Mme Elie Lambert —Like a white 

 Hermosa. 



Meteor.— Velvety crimson; free. 



Sappho.— Fawn color. 



Souvenir de Wootton— Deep red; a fine 

 fall rose. 



Souvenir d'un Ami.— Pale rose, strong 

 grower. 



Souvenir de la Malmaison. — Flesh 

 tinted; fine large, full rose. 



Mary Washington.— White with blush 

 center, exceedingly free-blooming in clus- 

 ters; we had a branch this summer that 

 bore in a terminal panicle one hundred 

 and eleven flowers and buds. 



ROSES. 



While rugosa, sweet brier, prairie and 

 some other such roses are hardy enough, 

 it is well to help the others a little. Mulch 

 the beds with rough strawy manure. In 

 the case of tea, noisette or other some- 

 what tender roses trusted out of doors, it 

 is best to lay them flat on the ground 

 running along in one line and then coyer 

 them over with grass sod turned upside 

 down, and over this a layer of loam or 

 coal ashes. Tea roses in the northern 

 states however are a good deal safer in 

 the cellar than in the open garden. 



VASE OF CHRYSANTHEMUM MRS. S. T. MURDOCH. PINK 



The Flower Garden. 



YUCCAS. 

 The-yucca commonly seen in northern 

 gardens is the filamentosa. It well de- 

 serves a place in collections because of the 



other one, called rccurva, which some 

 botanists have made but a varietv of the 

 filamentosa, but which, evidently, is a 

 distinct species, which makes a woodv 

 trunk The foliage is not so stiff as the 

 former. Although this one docs very well 

 out of doors, an idea prevails that it is 

 not hardy. It may be that plants have 

 been had horn the extreme south and 

 have proved tender, and this may have 

 given rise to an idea that it won't live 

 out. But as it grows naturally where 

 filamentosa does, when once acclimatised 

 and plants are raised from the latter 

 stock, it should prove hardy enough. 

 Making a trunk as a tree fern does, it is 

 what is wanted to plant on a lawn. 



if a piece or two of these be cut off and 

 planted young plants will be produced. 

 In this way as well as from se ds a great 

 many young plants can be had. 

 Phila. Joseph Meehan. 



LIUUM WflLLAGEI. 



There is a peculiar charm attached to a 

 lily that appeals to all lovers of the floral 

 kingdom, and the term "fair as a lily" is 

 fittingly used as the acme of loveliness. 



Unless under favorable conditions, and 

 intelligent culture, the number of species 

 that can be grown is somewhat limited. 

 Lilium Wallacei belongs to the class that 

 •f given any show at all is sure to thrive 



