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PLANT BRIEFS 



Turk's Turban — is one of those early appropriate, popular 

 names that obviously fit, and the plant gets the name from 

 the long enduring showy berries in a five rayed red turban 

 crowned with a " globule " as it were of blue-purple. A native 

 of the East Indies, the plant is. hardy in Florida and adorns 

 gardens in that section not only with its showy jewel-like 

 fruits in December and January but also when in its flowering 

 season the tubular white flowers (3—4 in. long) appear in 

 immense terminal recemes. Hence its second name of Tube- 

 flower which is just as fitting as the other name, according to 

 season. The shrub grows to 8 ft. high and has a loose open 

 habit; its proper name is Siphonanthus, but it is usually 

 called Clerodendron indica. 



The Marean Dahlias — have for some seasons past won 

 envious attention at the exhibitions of the American Dahlia 

 Society, and visitors to those meetings always wondered at the 

 vigor of strain, the large size and general quality of the blooms 

 staged by Judge Marean. It is a splendid illustration of 

 what can be accomplished in a very short time by persistently 

 breeding and selecting along a definite line, for the whole 

 Marean Dahlia family has a striking similiarity, showing a 

 common origin. Hitherto the strain has been exclusive, but 

 this season it will be offered in the trade, in a few varieties, and 

 doubtless will become more familiar on the boards. 



Buddleia Eva Dudley — is a new hybrid, the progeny of 

 the tender B. asiatica and B. Davidii magnifica. The former 

 adorns the greenhouses of the East in winter, and has been ac- 

 cepted as an outdoor favorite in the gardens of California; the 

 latter is the already well known " Summer-lilac or Butterfly- 

 flower." Both parents are introductions of E. H. Wilson, and 

 the hybrid raised by Farquhar partakes of the fragrance of 

 the former and the color of the other. It is named by the 

 raiser in compliment to his wife. The plant is intermediate in 

 hardiness apparently, and so, while not likely to stand as an 

 outdoor plant in New England it may be a welcome addition 

 to the gardens of warmer sections. 



A Yellow Cosmos — is one of the most promising of the 

 novelties among annuals. It was not widely disseminated 

 the past season, but a considerable amount of seed was har- 

 vested the past fall, and will be available. It seems that 

 seeds were collected in the Philippine Islands several years 

 ago by a soldier Who brought them to this country and put 

 them into the hands of a grower of the Middle West. Small 

 stocks are now to be found in different parts of the country. 

 The Yellow Cosmos as it is called (probably not a real Cosmos 

 at all) is more dwarf in habit than Lady Lenox and some of 

 the other popular varieties, and has remarkably strong stems. 

 The color is more nearly a deep cinnabar orange. The flowers 

 are grown in great profusion and begin to come in midsummer 



and last until after the first light frosts. They are excellent 

 for cutting and some of them have been offered by the florists 

 the past season. 



The Yellow Clematis — Of the host of Clematis few are 

 handsomer than C. tangutica. Moreover, it has particular 

 merits of its own, and might well be used in a more general 

 way. It is a rampant grower and will train itself over rocks, 

 banks or walls as well as climb on wires or trellises. Give it a 

 little pocket of good earth on the side of a banking or a rough 

 wall and it will cover it almost as quickly and as satisfactorily 

 as the Bittersweet or Waxworks. The yelLow flowers are 

 especially handsome and are succeeded by seed pods which 

 make quite an unusual appearance, being carried on long, 

 hairlike threads. 



Of course there are other species of Clematis which have 

 this characteristic, but in none is it so pronounced as in C. 

 tangutica. 



The Regal Lily — it has been found, can be forced for winter 

 blooming as easily as any of the common bulbs. For several 

 years it has been forced for blooming in early spring, but Mr. 

 Anderson, superintendent of the Bayard Thayer estate in 

 Lancaster, Mass., had Regal Lilies in full flower in November, 

 or exactly twelve weeks from the time he potted up the bulbs 

 and there seems to be no reason why it should not be available 

 in abundance for Christmas and Easter. The bulbs force 

 perfectly, after being kept in cold storage and can be forced 

 two or three years in succession in the same pot. Bulbs 

 which are to be forced for Christmas should be potted up 

 early in September They can be kept in a cold frame until 

 growth has started and then moved to a greenhouse or a 

 room with a night temperature of sixty. No manure whatever 

 should be used in potting, no, nor when the Lily is grown in 

 the open. None! Flowering bulbs are grown in three or four 

 years from seed, so there is no reason why the Regal Lily 

 should not soon be in very general use, and indeed it should 

 be plentiful within the next couple of years. 



Flowering Shrubs for Forcing — We have in the past re- 

 ceived the great bulk of such forcing plants as Lilacs, Haw- 

 thorns, ornamental Malus, Prunus triloba, Laburnums, 

 Wisterias, etc., from abroad. The new Quarantine 37 closes 

 these avenues and we must depend on home supplies. If 

 forced plants are well headed back after forcing, planted out in 

 good soil and grown for a couple of seasons they will flower 

 splendidly especially if potted or tubbed in the fall and kept 

 in a cool cellar until wanted for forcing. In the case of 

 Deutzias (of which Lemoinei appears to be the best forcing) 

 gardeners agree that home grown plants lifted with a good 

 ball are superior to the imported pot-grown stock. Cuttings 

 taken in August of this Deutzia which are planted out and 



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