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grown as a garden-plant to some extent in England, where 

 it is said to be very ornamental in November, but it is 

 rarely seen here in cultivation, although it can be trans- 

 planted from its native swamps and hillsides with perfect 

 safety, and it will thrive in good garden-soil and grow 

 more rapidly than most plants of its class. It is strange 

 that it has been so long neglected as an ornamental plant, 

 especially since it has the additional value of bearing an 

 excellent fruit — a fruit, too, which might, perhaps, be 

 much improved if care was exercised in selecting indi- 

 vidual plants. 



A New Yellow-flowered Datura. — A plant which was 

 distributed last year by Messrs. Pitcher & Manda under the 

 name of Datura cornucopia, and which received the honor 

 of a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural 

 Society at London, has become tolerably well known, 

 largely through the generous display of it at the Columbian 



and potted in September for the decoration of the green- 

 house. In England it will bloom out-of-doors until Decem- 

 ber, and a good way to treat it here is to plant it in a frame 

 into which frost can never enter. If placed in the conser- 

 vatory or greenhouse it needs abundant moisture and an 

 occasional stimulant. When the flowers are allowed to 

 remain on the plant the seeds will often ripen here, and if 

 sown under glass and transplanted in the open garden 

 when about six inches high good-sized plants can lie 

 obtained in a year. It is also propagated by dividing 

 the roots, which are not bulbous, in the spring. Most 

 assuredly it is a plant which ought to be more frequently 

 seen in American gardens, to the great majority of which 

 it is a total stranger. 



Sternbergia colchiciflora. — Among some collected bulbs 

 of Sternbergias, now flowering in Mr. Gerard's garden, are 

 a few plants of this species. The flowers appear before the 









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Fig. 70. — A Dwarf Horse-chestnut, j^EscuIus parviflora, in a Massachusetts garden. — See page 444. 



Exposition. Mr. W. A. Manda now has some plants from 

 seed received from South America of what seems to be the 

 same species, only the flowers, instead of being purple and 

 white, are a uniform creamy yellow. The new plant 

 seems to have the same stout habit, dark purple shining 

 branches and large clear green leaves, which characterize 

 the type, and it promises to be quite as floriferous. It 

 flowers from seed the first year. 



Schizostylis coccinea. — This Kaffir Lily, or Scarlet Flag, 

 by both of which popular names it is known, is now in 

 flower, and the ease with which it is grown and the striking 

 effect of its bright red salver-shaped flowers, arranged in 

 two ranks on long slender stems, makes one wonder why 

 it is not grown more largely by florists, especially as it 

 lasts remarkably well when cut. It belongs to the Iris 

 family, and was introduced from south Africa thirty years 

 ago. It can be grown in the open ground during summer 



leaves, and are about the size of those of S. lutea, though, 

 perhaps, lighter in color. They are Colchicum-like in form, 

 the inner segments being narrower than the others. The 

 leaves may be expected in the spring. 



Cultural Department. 



Carnations, New and Old. 



TOURING the past summer two Carnation growers of my 

 ■L^ acquaintance made a tour of England and Scotland, vis- 

 iting the principal horticultural establishments, and particu- 

 larly those where Carnations were made a specialty. They went 

 separately, and so their views were formed independently, 

 but both expressed astonishment at the great variety of types : 

 Bizarres, Flakes, on white and yellow grounds ; Cloves and 

 Selfs, not to mention the beautifully edged Picotee forms. 

 Again, they noted the clear division between hardy or border 



