December i8, 1895.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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of other kinds now rely on it exclusively. The flowers are of 

 good size and are produced on tine stems. 



Among single varieties the new California makes the most 

 rampant growth and flowers quite freely, occasionally two and 

 three flower-buds appearing on a stem. For length of stem 

 the introduction from the Pacific coast must take first honors, 

 and in this respect it is all' that the introducers claimed. Its 

 fragrance is fine and flower of good size, although a long way 

 from covering a silver dollar as yet. In color, however, we 

 have failed to see the "deep violet-purple," and the flower 

 lacks the substance of other single varieties. We have seen 

 this variety growing in a number of places, and few of the 



Seasonable Garden Notes. 



'T^HE generally mild weather which has so far prevailed has 

 ■'■ enabled cultivators to lilt tender bulbs and to plant the 

 hardy ones with less trouble and anxiety than last year, when 

 a heavy snowstorm on November 6th found the bulbs of 

 Dahlias and Gladioli and others in the earth, where many of 

 them died, and many sorts, especially Irises and Ixias, still in 

 boxes and bogs. I always delay planting Ixias until the last 

 moment, because they are more inclined than most things to 

 make an autumnal growth, and this year planted them Novem- 

 ber 30th. The past season has been a good one on the whole, 





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Fig. 70. — Chamcedorea glaucifolia. a. Part of infljrescence. — See page 504. 



growers were favorably impressed with it. At the end of the 

 flowering season we can, however, better estimate its value. 

 Wellsiana must take rank as the flnest of the dark single 

 kinds ; this variety and The Czar both succeed better in frames 

 than in heated structures. The former makes very few run- 

 ners, and requires to be propagated by cuttings inserted in 

 sand. The flower is larger and darker in color than The Czar. 

 It produces much smaller foliage, however, and as the older 

 variety has an abundance of good-sized leaves, it is specially 

 useful during the winter season, when it is sometimes as diffi- 

 cult to get a sufficiency of these as of flowers. 



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especially so far as increase of bulbs Is concerned. Some 

 months ago I wrote, that I thought a Gladiolus seedling of the 

 present year would blossom soon. It did so in October, and, 

 although the variety was exceedingly poor, I was glad to beat 

 the record, for, so far as I know, this is the first instance of as 

 early flowering. The new Tigridia alba immaculala is a beau- 

 tiful' flower, well worthy theattention of growers of bulbous 

 plants ; it is, at least with me, a stronger grower than the older 1 

 white variety. I am not sure that it is more beautiful, but it is 

 different, and gives variety. Though unspotted, the white 

 shades, in parts of the centre, to a creamy tint, T. violacea is 

 a small-flowered kind, but pretty. 



