February 27, 1S95.] 



Garden and Forest. 



85 



Cultural Department. 



A Few New Garden Plants. 



OF new plants the principal offerings are, as usual, tlie 

 so-called florists' flowers, wilh a few greenhouse and 

 stove plants. Of these it is not my intention to make notes, 

 but only of a few new things, mostly border plants, which are 

 likely to interest the amateur who is looking for flowers which 

 are attractive, but which may or may not be useful according 

 to florists' standards. 



The hybrid Briers, originated by Lord Penzance, are to me the 

 most attractive of the new offerings. These Roses have often 

 been described in Garden and Forest ; they were figured in 

 The Gardeners' Chronicle in 1891, and were honored with a 

 colored plate in The Garden, No. 1105. They were pro- 

 duced by crossing the Hybrid Perpetual Roses, Fortune's 

 Yellow and others, on the Sweetbrier. The new Rose is said 

 tobe strong and vigorous, very sweet-scented, and the foliage 

 retains all the charms of the Eglantine, being quite as fragrant. 



free growth, this may make a valuable out-of-door plant if 

 well treated. 



The Hybrid Tea Rose, Belle Siebrecht, is a Rose of not so 

 rare a color, though of a beautiful rosy pink and excellent 

 in bud and flower. From its parentage. Lady Mary Fit/.- 

 william and La France, it should make a fine plant for the 

 border ; the latter is the best hardy variety here for the produc- 

 tion of a constant succession of flowers. 



New hardy herbaceous plants seem scarce. 1 notice only a 

 new seedling variety of the white Japanese Anemone, Lady 

 Ardilaun, which is of Irish origin, and is said to be unusually 

 vigorous, with flowers three and a half inches across, semi- 

 double and faintly tinted with purple on the reverse and on 

 the buds. The prudent gardener will still retain the clump of 

 the old white, for there are few handsomer plants when in 

 flower, and it is of a grace and purity difficult to improve. As 

 this is a seedling of 1893 which is now being widely offered, 

 the rapidity of increase of this Anemone is strikingly shown. 

 A well-colored single pink Japanese Anemone would be 

 a greater gain tlian any development in the way of doub. 





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The flowers are single or slightly double, and freely produced, 

 of medium size, with prominent yellow stamens, and covering 

 a wide range of most delightful colorings. Some of the varie- 

 ties produce a second crop of flowers in the autumn, and the 

 flowers usually have a delicate, though penetrating, fragrance 

 of their own which is quite distinct from the odor of the 

 foliage. There are few flowers from which one can gain more 

 pleasing impressions than the single Roses, all of which are 

 distinctly valuable in the garden, whether they be low shrubs 

 or climb over fences or arbors. 



The Crimson Rambler is a Japanese Rose of the Mulliflora 

 class, which has been frequently mentioned in Garden and 

 Forest since it was certificated under the name of Engineer, 

 five years ago, and is much advertised at present. It comes 

 with an excellent record as a climbing variety, with its single, 

 but abundant, crop of small double crimson Roses in clus- 

 ters. 



There is at least one first-rate American Rose this season, 

 Mrs. Pierpont Morgan, the cerise sport from Madame Cusin, 

 which is offered as a forcing Rose. With its unique color and 



ling. The typical Japanese Anemone is not wanted in gar- 

 dens, the so-called rose-colored flowers being of a distress- 

 ing hue — not even an honest Solferino. 



New Violets are plants with which everybody experiments 

 very charily or tentatively, for obvious reasons. The new Cali- 

 fornia Violet, which is said to bear very fragrant dark flowers 

 of immense size, on stems ten to fourteen inches long, appar- 

 ently has merits which entitle it to serious trial. 



If'Mr. Manda's new Fern, Adiantum Capillus Veneris imbri- 

 catum, survives the rigor of this winte* and its name, its 

 flat fronds and broaJpi'nnas, like those of A. Farleyense, will 

 make it a popular plant for shady places. 



It is curious to note the changes in fashion in the Dahlia, 

 though I believe the true Dahlia fancier is wedded to his idols, 

 the beautiful globular flowers, with perhaps a tolerance for 

 the Cactus varieties. A few years ago we had a fancy for the 

 single-flowered kinds, which must be all broad petaled and as 

 circular as possible. We have now arrived at another phase, 

 the novelty of the season having narrow petals relloxcd at the 

 edges, and the flowers resembling a wheel without the tire. 



