The jVczv Golden Colciis of 1869. 5 



It will thus be evident that, to be specially successful, fall planting 

 must be performed at the earliest moment after completion of growth. 

 The best results have been reached by removing as soon as the foliage 

 indicates change of color, taking the precaution to strip the leaves 

 from the plant. In removing large trees this is the most successful 

 of all modes, as is fully corroborated by the experience of many years. 

 Theoretically, it is apparent that the fall-^^lanted tree has great advan- 

 tages over its spring-planted neighbor ; but it mav be doubted if anv 

 one not familiar with the subject could imagine so great a diflerence 

 as occurs in reality. 



Whether fall or spring is the best time to plant, does not admit of 

 any argument, so far as the principle is concerned ; the question can 

 only arise as a matter of personal convenience, and therefore of no 

 public interest whatever, so far as concerns the laws of growth. 



Nov. 1 9, 1S69. 



THE NEW GOLDEN COLEUS OF 1S69. 



By Peter Henderson, Bergen Citj', N. J. 



When it was announced to us through the English journals, two 

 years ago, that such an enormous price (£ 400) had been paid for a 

 dozen varieties of new Hybrid Coleus, we were all expectation to be- 

 hold the wonderful plants to which such value had been attached. 

 But, as in too many cases, we found that the price paid was no crite- 

 rion of merit, and that when they were received on this side of the 

 Atlantic, we failed to discover anything novel or wonderful about them : 

 they were of but little value for bedding purposes, our hot July and. 

 August suns utterly destroying what little distinction of marking there 

 was in the diflcrent varieties, so that no particular diflerence could be 

 seen in the dozen varieties, and all looking dingy enough. But they 

 have well redeemed themselves by the issue of the new Golden Coleus 

 of this year, which, in my opinion, surpasses all ornamental leaved 

 plants of that character in cultivation, not even excepting the beautiful 



