370 General Notices. 



New Seedling Epiphylliim. — Our correspondent, the Rev. 

 P. S. Fall, of Frankfort, Ky., a zealous amateur, and suc- 

 cessful cultivator of the Cactae, has recently produced a splen- 

 did seedling epiphyllum. "The flower is, in color, like that 

 of splendidum, but is fully eight and a half inches in diam- 

 eter, and has, more decidedly than Mayfly, the beautiful 

 purple [violet] tint of speciosissimus on the inner petals. 

 The anthers are rose pink, on white filaments, and the style 

 and stigma of a bright scarlet. It expands finely, and the 

 petals are numerous, and about one and a half inches wide. 

 In habit it resembles Jenkinsonia, while many of the stems — 

 all of them at first — are like those of speciosissimus. I thought 

 for some years it would prove to be a cereus. At the time of 

 its flowering, Triumphans, Ashland, and Superbissimum, all 

 superb sorts, as well as Mayfly, Mr. Longworth's fine seed- 

 ling, Grahami, roseum, speciosissimus, &:c , were in bloom; 

 and, although no particular care had been bestowed upon the 

 plant, the superior splendor of the flowers was at once evident 

 to all who saw them." 



Mr. Fall is desirous of disposing of his seedling to some 

 person in the trade, as so fine a plant ought to be sent out ; 

 and any nurseryman wishing to purchase the stock, should 

 address Mr. Fall, at Frankfort, Ky. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. 1. General Notices. 



On keeping wp a succession of Flowers. — To keep up a succession of flow- 

 ers as long as possible, is one of the chief objects of a flower gardener. A 

 parterre without blossoms is like an orchard without fruit ; every expedient 

 is therefore had recourse to for the purpose of retarding the flowering of 

 some kinds, and expediting tliat of others. Our early spring flowers, which 

 are chiefly bulbs and tubers, would be inclined to flower again in the au- 

 tumn if they were not checked by the great heat of the summer in those 

 countries of which they are natives ; or, if in imitation thereof, the careful 

 florist did not remove them out of the bed in which they have already flow- 

 ered. Thus, by stopping their growth and keeping them in a colder and 

 moister climate than their own, we keep them from blooming till the season 

 ■when their blossoms are most welcome to us. In this way, many of these 

 bulbous and tuberous-rooted plants can be flowered almost at any season ; but 

 there are rules of propriety in the execution of these proceedings : a snow- 

 drop would scarcely be regarded at midsummer, while surrounded by so 



