IN FLORIDA I5!I 
pine land it is almost absolutely necessary to have some means 
of irrigating, for water is a crying need for roses on such soil. 
If one has only a few plants it will pay to dig out a couple of 
feet of the sand and fill in with marl or any kind of strong soil, 
sods from anold pasture being good. Liquid cow or horse manure 
will be beneficial and bone meal is a fine fertilizer. The Monthly 
roses are so glorious that it is worth any trouble to raise them, 
and some of the Hybrid Perpetuals succeed if well cared for. 
A large portion of the roses grown here are budded, it being 
believed that this is better than growing them on their own roots. 
They do better during the cooler part of the year and should 
be transplanted during autumn or winter. 
Spirea. Hardy shrubs cultivated at the north, some of which 
do well in the upper districts. Among these are S. reevesi and 
its double-flowered variety; S. salicifolia and S. van houttei. All 
have white flowers. 
Tabernaemontana coronaria is one of the finest shrubs (some- 
times almost a tree here) that we cultivate. The large, glossy, 
oblong leaves are handsome and almost all the year through it 
bears a profusion of waxy white flowers about two inches across 
that are fragrant a part of the time. It has been suggested that 
in their native country certain insects which visit their flowers 
for honey are only active at certain hours of the day. As these 
plants find the insects useful for purposes of cross-fertilization 
their blossoms give out fragrance in order to attract these insects 
only while they are active. There is a species from Kashmir re- 
ceived without a name, with narrow leaves and fine single white 
flowers that I have seen in bloom at Fort Myers. They should 
be well fertilized. 
Tecoma velutina is much like T. stans but has pubescent leaves 
and paler yellow flowers. 
Veronica. This genus which consists mostly of herbs contains 
afew shrubs. They have long spikes of dainty blue or purplish 
flowers which are fine for bouquets. I have not had sufficient 
experience with them to say whether they will succeed here or 
not but they have failed with Reasoner at Oneco and with 
Schanbel at Gainesville. 
Viburnum tinus, Laurustinus. This fine, hardy old shrub 
