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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 437. 



the flavor much better. Later it was discovered that these 

 Pines come into bearing during various portions of the 

 year, thus giving marketable fruit in November and until 

 the close of the pineapple season. The pioneers in this 

 work were regarded as visionary, and it doubtless took a 

 great deal of courage to invest about $4,000 for building an 

 eight-acre shed, but now this plan has been extended to 

 such places as Palm Beach, where Cocoanuts flourish and 

 the danger of frosts is very slight. When it is remembered 

 that a single fruit of good size and quality sells for $1.00 

 in the pinery at Christmas it is readily seen that this pro- 

 tection is profitable, even in the extreme south, as few fields, 

 even on the keys, are never visited by frosts. There are 

 no pineapples grown under glass for commercial purposes 

 in Florida. 



EXTENT OF THE INDUSTRY. 



Professor H. J. Webber, Eustis, Florida, special agent for 

 the Division of Vegetable Pathology and Physiology, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, gave the follow- 

 ing figures in his paper before the Florida Horticultural 

 Society : number of acres in Pineapples in 1894, in the 

 Avon Park region, 100 ; Orlando region, 30 ; Myers, 3 ; on 

 the keys, 300 ; the East Coast, 2,056 — making a total of 

 2,389 acres. The figures were obtained by diligent inquiry 

 in visits to many fields of the regions. The freight depart- 

 ment of Florida railroads shipped, according to the same 

 paper, 56,209 crates, or about 3,000,000 fruits in the same 

 year. This does not include the local consumption, those 

 sent out of the state by express, nor those carried from the 

 keys in boats and not transferred to railroads. 



Agi 'icultural College, Lake City, Fla. P. H. Rolfs. 



Plant Notes. 



Iris hexagona, La Mance. — Another season's growth of 

 this Arkansas variety confirms the first impression as to its 

 being a handsome form. Among the many Irises it would 

 be difficult to name the must beautiful and pleasing, but 

 this has claims to be numbered among the choicest of a 

 generally handsome family. There are others of more deli- 

 cate and quaint hues, but the color of this is as nearly blue 

 as is found in flowers. The flowers are wide-spreading, 

 with flat segments, and three or four are borne on short 

 pedicels on one side of a leafy prostrate stem. It is per- 

 fectly hardy and has long, thick, creeping rhizomes. The 

 white-flowered form of Ins hexagona, discovered in Florida 

 by Mr. Mead, does not prove to be hardy here. 



Hydrangea quercifolia. — Of the plants now in bloom in 

 shrubberies this bush is conspicuous by its large cymes 

 of showy flowers. The heads are pyramidal in outline. 

 The sterile flowers are quite numerous and entirely hide 

 the fertile ones on the inside. On first opening the sterile 

 flowers are rich creamy white, changing eventually to a 

 pinkish tinge. The plant in a young state has a rather 

 straggling, or one-sided, appearance, but when it grows 

 older it becomes a compact and neat bush. The leaves are 

 five-lobed and quite large. The petioles and young wood 

 are densely covered with a rusty colored downy substance. 

 Perhaps the reason it is not more abundant in collections 

 is the difficulty of propagation. It is exceedingly slow in 

 rooting from cuttings at any season of the year. Hydrangea 

 quercifolia is found growing in partly shaded places in 

 Florida, Georgia and westward, and is quite hardy in most 

 of the northern states. 



Philadelphus Lemoinei. — A figure of this hybrid plant 

 was published in 1889 in the second volume of this journal, 

 when it had not flowered in the United States and nothing 

 was known of its value here as a garden plant. Philadel- 

 phus Lemoinei had been raised by Monsieur Lemoine 

 of Nancy, who, in 1 884, had crossed the Old World Philadel- 

 phus coronarius with Philadelphus microphyllus, a native 

 of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Philadelphus 

 Lemoinei has now been grown in the Arnold Arboretum 

 for six years and has proved itself perfectly hardy and a 



most desirable and beautiful garden plant. The stems, 

 which are about two feet high, were clothed last week 

 with fragrant white flowers which are intermediate in size 

 and in the time of opening between those of the two 

 parents. For a small garden where the common bush 

 Syringas are too large Philadelphus Lemoinei will supply 

 in miniature their white flowers and delightful perfume. It 

 is a temptation which too frequently is not resisted to over- 

 praise new plants, but in this case it does not seem easy 

 to say too much of the merits of a shrub which Monsieur 

 Lemoine has good right to consider one of his most im- 

 portant contributions to the flora of gardens. 



Yellow Roses. — Hardy yellow Roses have produced 

 exceptionally large crops of fine flowers this year in many 

 northern gardens, and the beauty of these plants has never 

 been more striking. There are two yellow-flowered Roses, 

 Rosa sulphurea, often called Rosa hemisphserica, and Rosa 

 Eglanteria ; the former has been known in European gar- 

 dens in a double form since the sixteenth century, but it 

 was not until 1830 that the single form was discovered. It 

 is a native of Asia Minor, Armenia and Persia, and in 1859 

 the single form was described by the Swiss botanist, Bois- 

 sier, under the name of Rapinni. So far as we know, 

 neither the single nor the double-flowered form of this 

 Rose is in our gardens, and it is believed to be more tender 

 than Rosa Eglanteria, which is also often called Rosalutea, 

 and is a native of western Asia. This is the single-flowered 

 yellow Rose of old gardens, and as a garden plant is one 

 of the most charming shrubs in cultivation. A form of this 

 plant, with the petals dark copper-colored or red on the 

 upper surface and yellow on the lower, is one of the most 

 distinct of Roses. The origin of this form, which is com- 

 monly called the Austrian Copper Brier, is uncertain. It 

 has been in gardens for more than a century, and has a 

 rather weak constitution, and is hard to keep for many 

 years at a time except in specially favorable situations. 

 The Persian yellow Rose is the double-flowered form of 

 Rosa Eglanteria, and a common plant in many old gar- 

 dens. It is not always a free bloomer, and the flowers do 

 not open satisfactorily in this climate, but this year the 

 plants have been generally covered with large well-formed 

 blooms. Harrison's yellow Rose, which is the common 

 yellow Rose of American gardens, is supposed to be a 

 hybrid between Rosa Eglanteria and the Scotch Rose, 

 Rosa spinosissima, but nothing is known of its history, and 

 we shall be glad of any information our readers may be 

 able to give us concerning it. It is a hardy free-blooming 

 plant, but the flowers are less beautiful and fragrant than 

 those of the double Persian yellow Rose.- The flowers, 

 like those of all the varieties of Rosa Eglanteria, have the 

 perfume of the Sweetbrier. 



New Hybrid Roses — A season or two since Mr. W. A. 

 Manda crossed Rosa Wichuraiana with various otherspecies 

 and varieties, Eglantine, a number of the most attractive 

 Teas, American Beauty and General Jacqueminot. The 

 hybrids have lately been shown at South Orange, planted 

 out on bare sandy banks, in positions where R. Wichu- 

 raiana is especially valuable and attractive. In character of 

 foliage and habit of growth they resemble the prostrate 

 rambling parent, but the crossing has produced a most 

 remarkable series of free-flowering plants with handsome 

 fragrant flowers. One attractive hybrid has clusters of pink 

 single flowers similar to those of the Sweetbrier. Another, 

 pure pink double flowers, the buds of which resemble in 

 miniature the Bridesmaid. There are also several forms 

 with double white flowers. One of these with a delicate 

 pink hue is peculiar and distinct, the numerous small, 

 rounded petals being reflexed and perfectly imbricated, an 

 arrangement not usual among Roses. Mr. Manda has also 

 a number of other forms, mostly pink or rose in color, and 

 varying in shape and number ot petals, which he proposes 

 naming and offering next year. These hybrids must meet 

 with great favor with planters, as they add a brilliancy or 

 warmth of color to a valuable Rose. 



