THE 
DECEMBER 18, 1875.] 
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Caution.—/x2 future all Novelti бу JAMES CARTER 
& Co. for the first time к bear ча Sarro Trade 
Mark. 
E NL International Prize Asters. 
Page 163, Gardeners’ Year Book for 1876. 
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1875. 
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CHRISTMAS FLOWERS. 
F there is one time more than another when 
zesthetic school in the Established Church has 
done so much to introduce, flowers have assumed 
n ecclesi- 
once important yar ince o Са parish clerk 
and the beadle, to whom the “ sticking "—as we 
heard church decoration wf only a year or 
SO si | 
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amiable ecclesiastics cherish the belief that 
their disguise is so complete as to “take in” 
the hadituds of the place. Strong feeling are 
sometimes arou sed by, and strong views are 
te church decoration of the 
columns are no place 
for their ventilation or discussion, but we may 
be allowed to refer to it as one of the mahy 
of the “blessed 
ms be more generally 
and more heartily commemorated in England 
in any other country. 
Cameras — And what are the homie which 
are most in demand at this season of the year— 
or rather, wath ai are mostly at hand to meet the 
demand which exists for flowers 9 md kind ? 
First of all, perhaps, come Camelli 
“ Faultily faultless, icily regular, rene meek, 
Dead perfection, no more—” 
at least so they seem us, admirable and 
an 
lus or Ka 
the Philippine Islands in 
teenth century, and whose accurate drawings 
and notes are preserved in the British Museum, 
Apropos of Camellias, а story occurs to us which 
we heard from the person most concerned in it 
—and as Christmas time is proverbially the 
reason for story telling, we may as well give it. 
It was after the sacking of the Summer Palace 
at Pekin that our friend, who was then in active 
service ша - British Army, and who, as befitted 
ority, had selected for himself a con- 
venient iiis dd in that city, o. observed in a 
garden not far distant from his own two splendid 
bushes of Camellias in full flower, one white, 
the other red. How it happened, who shall 
say?—yet somehow or other these two bushes 
me night disappeared from their place, and 
st us 
made their appearance in the garden of the 
— ein The тез on becoming 
aware of his s, waxed wr betook 
himself prensa to the officer and opened 
his grief.” “ Well," said that functionary, “ the 
case is certainly a hard one. Let us see. I 
ve two 
deprived ; and which, strange to i he was 
never able to recover, or even to tra 
HEATHS, &C.—Various Heaths are prominent 
sae our zi y ristmas flowers, and so are Cycla- 
mens, surely among the very prettiest of plants 
and in no form more so than in the old-fashioned 
in 
pots, have been kept back by the skilful fi ino 
now come out in full freshness. Th 
have early Tulips,, not always very happy- 
looking, however, but often flowering before the 
blossoms have fully emerged from their enfold- 
ing leaves, and having a general air of having 
got up too soon 
POINSETTIA.—Passing by these old friends, 
whic 
indispensable adjunct hr 
rations, of church or hall—the v 
liant Poinsettia pulcherrima, the bright scarlet 
bracts of which g 
like солагай ‚ and serve admirably to lighten 
up the somewhat sombre masses of evergreen. 
Not ont th in | England i is this beautiful plánt re- 
е 
night," is the Spanish name. 
Spain it is a very popular flower, and there too, 
it is connected with a Church festival, being 
known as Flor de pasqua or Easter-flower. Its 
name commemorates a French traveller, M. 
Poinsette, by whom the plant was in I to 
cultivation. He brought specimens to Charleston 
rom Mexico in 1828, whence they were taken 
to Philadelphia; and specimens sent from the 
latter place to Edinburgh flowered in 1835, since 
which date it has become increasingly popular 
and plentiful in our stoves. Th 
amo 
illustrated in these columns. With u 
land the plants of the Poinsettia tofa com 
paratively but small size; but in India, on 
the Neilgherry Hills, where it is die in gar- 
dens, it attains the size of a large 
EVERLASTING FLOWERS, &C.— Not only 
tutes for growing plants which are generally 
known by the name of “everlasting " come into 
especial prominence. In the Paris markets the 
chief demand for them has been at the begin- 
simple, but often very touching inscriptions in 
black letters, are seen in Pére la g 
that month in greater quantity than at any other 
seedsmen and florists are not slow to avail 
themselves. 
The word “ everlasting " is properly confined 
to the Composite belonging to the genera Heli- 
chrysum and Helipterum, and others allied to 
them ; but in trade language it is extended so 
as to P audi yen plants, such as the Leuco- 
dendron argenteum, the Witteboom, or Silver 
