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and a white snapdragon (raised from a 
seedling and brought indoors in October) 
are very satisfactory house plants, their 
blossoms lasting all through the winter 
season. Cyclamen, raised from bulbs and 
brought indoors in September, will bloom for 
several years. 
Freesias, planted five or six bulbs to a 
pot, were set out on August 2oth, and the 
Golden Bermuda oxalis, one bulb to a pot, 
was planted November 15th. Oxalis, if 
given a place in full sunshine next to the 
glass, blooms in about six weeks: the freesias 
will flower in about four months, if given 
partial shade. Alyssums (seeds planted in 
- May) were brought in November 15th, and 
commenced to bloom at once. 
Night-blooming cereus is not difficult to cultivate. 
It has delightfully fragrant flowers 
The Rex begonia, which has been a most 
disappointing plant to me through all the 
years that I have grown it, has at last proved 
satisfactory. I now water it only through 
the saucer, and with this treatment it has 
bloomed twice during the past season. Its 
leaves no Jonger turn brown on the edges 
and drop off. Its blossoms are very pretty, 
of pinkish yellow with four very thick and 
waxy-looking petals. I also have a Rubra 
begonia which was raised from a rooted 
plant and is six years old. The begonias 
are always brought into the house in 
September. 
I have had excellent success with the 
maiden-hair fern, which is as luxuriant as 
though growing on the rocks by the brook- 
side. It was brought in on October roth, 
and. is three years old from the roots. A 
lace fern, one year old, and a Sprengeri, 
four years old, were raised from roots and 
were brought indoors in September. 
A Borbonica palm, seven years old, now 
has eleven leaves. It is brought indoors in 
September and if given a southern window 
with full sunshine, seldom loses a leaf and 
the tips do not turn brown. 
Why not grow your own lemons? I 
have a tree which was placed outdoors in 
May and not brought in until late in Septem- 
ber. It bore nine lemons, although owing 
to unforeseen accidents, only one matured. 
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This measured twelve inches around and 
weighed a pound. It was very juicy and 
had a delicious flavor, the rind heing very 
thin and the seeds small. 
Climbing ivies planted in the house in 
October flourished amazingly all winter. 
Roses, after being brought in, commenced 
at once to put out new shoots which increased 
ten or twelve inches in length within a 
month; one lot of sweet peas, brought in in 
November, and another on the 12th of 
January, were lifted during a cold rain storm 
and showed no sign of having been dis- 
turbed. These plants were seedlings from 
the summer crop, grew five feet high and 
had thicker stalks and more luxuriant foliage 
than when grown in the open. They 
bloomed in April. I have also tried bringing 
sweet peas in early in the season and giving 
them a warm room, but the vines have 
invariably dried up. 
My cactus plants, with but few exceptions, 
were brought from California or Arizona. 
I have a Stapelia variegata, an Echeveria 
secundu glauca, a Gasteria verrucosa, an 
Ackermaniui, and a Christmas cactus which 
T have had for six years. This plant was 
raised from a small slip and has had as 
many as eighty blossoms on it at one time. 
The flowers appear two or three days before 
Christmas and last until March. Cacti 
require little care; but as they have very 
fine roots growing near the surface, the 
greatest possible attention must necessarily 
be paid to their watering, neglect fre- 
quently resulting in the loss of plants. Give 
them plenty of water during the blooming 
season, but a more moderate supply when 
they are resting. The larger plants in my 
collection I leave in their pots through the 
summer; the smaller I place in the ground 
about the 5th of May and pot them in Sep- 
tember after the first cold rain. I use rather 
shallow pots, and for the small varieties 
secure the best bloom by using pots about 
two or three inches in diameter. 
A large night-blooming cereus was given 
me by a friend, who said that she had owned 
it for several years without its having had 
but one blossom. I repotted it in a larger 
pot, using the compost already described, 
and the first season it had five large, fragrant 
flowers; the second year it had nine 
blossoms; the third, twelve buds and 
blossoms in the month of June, and at the 
end of July it had its second crop of twelve 
buds which bloomed in September. 
Ornamental Fruits on Hardy 
Evergreen Shrubs 
(Sixth article in the series “Ornamental Fruits for 
Every Month’) 
F EVERGREEN trees and shrubs 
with ornamental berries we have but 
few which are hardy in the Northern States. 
First place should be given the American 
holly (Ilex opaca). Though not quite as 
beautiful as the English holly, it is much 
hardier and will bear fruit as far north as 
New York. It makes a very handsome, 
small tree with its dense dark green foliage 
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and its bright red berries which adorn the 
tree all winter. 
The fire thorn (Pyracantha coccinea or 
Cotoneaster pyracantha) is a low, thorny 
shrub which is beautiful in fall with its 
wealth of orange red berries disposed in 
clusters along the branches and remaining 
through the winter if not eaten by the birds. 
It is likewise handsome in June with its 
clusters of white flowers. 
Some of the low-spreading cotoneasters, 
like C. microphylla and C. rotundifolia, will 
stand the winter with some protection and 
are adapted for rockeries. ‘They are densely 
clothed with small glossy leaves and bear 
in autumn bright red berries scattered 
along the branches. ‘The higher growing 
Cotoneaster Simonsi has likewise bright red 
berries but is only half-evergreen. 
The mahonia or Oregon grape (Berberis 
aquifolium) is a low shrub rarely exceeding 
five feet, with glossy pinnate foliage and 
upright clusters of dark blue berries covered 
with a whitish bloom and preceded in June 
by yellow flowers. 
The trailing euonymus (E. radicans) 
opens in October its pale pods and discloses 
the orange berries (properly arils) which 
stay on the branches until midwinter. All 
the above are broad-leaved evergreens and 
none of them will stand an exposed situation 
in the Northern states without loss or 
injury to their foliage. 
Of the conifers, only the yew may be 
properly mentioned here. There are two 
kinds, both with bright scarlet berries. ‘The 
American yew or ground hemlock (Taxus 
Canadensis), a low spreading shrub only a 
few feet high, ripens its fruits towards the 
end of July or in the beginning of August, 
while the European yew (Zaxus baccaia) 
does not show its berries before September 
and will keep them until midwinter if they 
are not eaten by the birds. The European 
yew generally needs protection and is 
short-lived in America. : 
Massachusetts. ALFRED REHDER. 
[The next article will summarize the fruits 
that last all winter] 
Branches of the trailing euonymus, are covered 
with orange-scarlet fruit nearly all winter 
