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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



time approaches for the Bennett rose to 

 be given to the i)ublic. 



A florist in Wasliington has had the 

 good fortune to originate a variety of a 

 hansdonie shade of crimson rose of large 

 size and excellent form, and in fragrance 

 siirj)assing any rose in cultivation. The 

 scent is a blending of the tea and Eng- 

 lish moss-rose jterfume; a few buds will 

 till a rooui with the most delightful odor. 

 To complete its good qualities it is 

 monthly, blooming as freely ;us the La 

 France or other roses of that class ; 

 moreover, being part h3'brid jjcrpetual, 

 it will prove hardy in most localities, 

 and in consequence be as valuable for 

 out-door culture as for forcing. This 

 rose has been named the " American 

 Beauty." — X. Y. Evenimj Post. 



ANEMONE HEPATICA. 

 Among the spring wild Howers of 

 this country there is no greater favorite 

 than the Hepatica, or Liver leaf, or 

 Liverwort. It is among the very first 

 we expect at the opening of spring ; 

 its handsome and peculiar leaves dis- 

 tinguish it among all low-growing 

 plants, and being evergreen are in full 

 lorm and beauty at a season when most 

 herbaceous plants are destitute of fo- 

 liage. Its small pur})lish flowers, borne 

 on long stems, seemingly offer them- 

 selves to their admirers, and they are 

 borne away by loving hands as gifts for 

 friends, and to grace our table vases, 

 welcome tokens of the awakening of 

 vegetation from its winter slumber. 



'• Sweet are the memories that ye bring 

 Of the pleasant, leafy woods of spring ; 

 < If the wild bee, so gladly humming. 

 Joyous that earth's young flowers are coming. 



Much as this plant is admired, it is 

 strange that it has not been commonly 

 cultivated ; it is a single instance of 

 numberless cases illustrating the well 

 known fact that we prize for our gar- 

 dens, plants of foreign origin in prefer- 

 ence to native ones, without regard 

 always to real worth. By-the-by, this 



plant is a denizen of the woods and 

 copses and wild grounds of Eurojje 

 and Great Britain as well as of this 

 country, and there it has been far 

 more freely introduced into gardens 

 than here, in fact, it is practically 

 unknown in this country as a gar- 

 den plant. As it grows naturally in 

 cool and somewhat shaded places, no 

 doubt many have inferred that it would 

 not be suited to the garden fully exposed 

 to the sun. This however is not the 

 case, as the writer has seen it in most 

 trying situations, one of which was on 

 the south side of a house, near the wall, 

 where the soil was dry, and where 

 it received the full sunshine all day 

 and the reflected heat from the wall, 

 a place particularly well adapted to 

 that heat-loving plant, the Portu- 

 laca, and yet in this situation the 

 Hepatica has lived and flourished, un- 

 disturbed, for many years. True, this 

 is not the treatment we shotild advise 

 for it, but it demonstrates the vitality 

 of the plant. In a deej), rich soil in a 

 well cultivated border it will do well, 

 and it will be quite at home in a place 

 a little shaded by the tops of trees, or 

 among shrubs. — Vick's Magazme. 



SNOWDROP AND SNOWTLAKE. 



As these plants are so hardy and 

 thrifty, there is no reason that they 

 should not be plentiful not only in our 

 gardens and on our lawns, but in 

 country places by the roadsides and in 

 groves, and by the sides of shady 

 walks. A little attention given to 

 planting the surplus bulbs of the garden 

 in such places, would give them a chance 

 to live and spread, and to beautify 

 places whose attractions are none too 

 numerous. The })lants do not object to 

 shade, as many others do, and will 

 send up their snow-white bells under 

 trees and shrubs. Those who are em- 

 bellishing school grounds with plants 

 will find the Snowdrop and Snowflake 



