MEOABBHIZA CAIXTOKSICA. — FIO. 1. 



FLORICXTLTURE. Wf 



natural time of blooming. Since then I have tried the experiment parpoeely, 



and always with the same good result."' A heavj- covering of the ground 



over the roots of the plants 



•with leaves, and sufficient 



protection of the stem outside, 



would allow this method to 



be practiced in quite severe 



climates. 



Some Xe-nr Plants Of- 

 fered, by German Florists. 



— Among the new plants of- 

 fered by German florists, we 

 take occasion to note the fol- 

 lowing: 



Megarrhiza Califomica, 

 Fig. 1, is a new and verj- rapid 

 growing member of the Cu- 

 cnrbitacefB family, of the 

 same elegant habit and hand- 

 some appearance as Pilogyne 

 suaris, but of much larger di- 

 mensions, the stems often at- 

 taining a length of twenty to 

 thirty feet in one season. 



The beautiful, glossy, silvery leaves, alwut three to six inches in diameter, 

 bear short scattered hairs, the small white sterile flowers appearing in 



slender racemes, while the 

 fertile ones grow singly, and 

 are somewhat larger; tho ob- 

 long shaped fruits, about two 

 inches long, are densely cov- 

 ered with stout, pungent 

 spines, similar to those of the 

 Cucurbitaceae introduced up 

 to the present time, being of 

 about the same size and form 

 as a broad bean, and ger- 

 minatiug as easily and surely 

 as pumpkin seeds. The plant 

 becomes fully developed when 

 grown as an annual, but it can 

 also be cultivated as a peren- 

 nial, as it produces long and 

 large tuberous roots. 



Bromus Patulus Nanus, 



Fig. 2, is quite a new form of 



this very valuable ornamental 



grass, di fife ring from th«r 



original species, not only in its 



lower growth, but far more in its much more graceful, thinner and shorter 



panicles. By comparing a panicle of Bromus patulxis with the one shown in 



Dattiral size in the figure, the superiority of the above-named sort may 



BBOSfUS PATULUS NAXTS.— FIG. 2. 



