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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



the cross and the sepulchre where there shall 

 be no more death and where the sunlight is 

 eternal. 



" The religion of Jesus has exorcised the 

 baneful superstition which gathered round 

 this lovely flower, and made it an object of 

 dread as capable of causing personal injury 

 to maid or matron who happened to step 

 over it, so much so, indeed, that Gerarde, in 

 his famous Herbal, tells us when he had 

 cyclamens growing in his garden he stuck 

 a fence of sticks around them and laid others 



crosswise over them lest any woman should 

 touch them and be hurt." 



Shirley Hibberd says it is quite a common 

 event to see cyclamen persicum with fifty to 

 one hundred flowers, and we once saw a 

 plant that must have had at least five hun- 

 dred blossoms. It was presented at a meet- 

 ing of the floral committee of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society by Mr. Wiggins, on 

 the 1 2th of February, 1884. The plant was 

 at least seven years old, with a corm nearly 

 as large as a baby's head. 



MIGNONETTTE MACHET, WHITE PEARL, THE 

 WHITE MACHET. 



BY this demonstration the well known 

 firm, Pape & Bergmann, Quedlin- 

 burg, Germany, sets forth a very remarkable 

 novelty, which forms indeed a magnificent 

 counterpiece to those varieties, Rubin and 

 Goliath (the red machet), introduced by the 

 same growers several years ago. 



The exhibit of this novelty is that peculiar 

 to the machet class, viz., vigorous and com- 

 pact also very ramifying and of rich bloom. 

 The blossom stems, erect and firm, bear long 

 very thick and nicely obtused blossom pani- 

 cles, towering elegantly above the quite dark 

 green slightly undulated foliage, such ^s 

 ought to be the case with a genuine machet. 

 With a mignonette the color of the blossoms 

 is of a remarkably pure white, among which 

 now and then appear single red anthers, ren- 

 dering more striking and showy still this 

 novelty, these two colors together forming 

 a very good and pleasant contrast with each 

 other. 



Mignonette machet (White Pearl) is as 

 appropriate for pot flower as for growth in 

 open ground, afifords remarkable enrich- 

 ment to the material for bouquets, flower 

 glasses, etc., a white machet certainly form- 

 ing a beautiful and striking alteration 

 among the other varieties known, so this 

 novelty will obtain a lasting and prominent 



situation in the flower line. Combined with 

 Machet Rubin, be it in beds or in bouquets, it 

 will afford an excellent effect, these two 

 varieties being so well adapted the one for 

 the other. Not yet quite constant. 



Fig 2689. Mignonette Maciilt. 



