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BOTANICAL INDEX, 
of July, the worst period of the whole year for such a task, yet I am sure whoever 
obtains any or all of them will not be disappointed. 
SEMI-DOUBLE VARIETIES. 
Le Niagara — pure white, immense trusses. 
Boule de Neige — another line white. 
Nymphe Neige — yet another fine white, slightly tinged with pink. 
Gambetta — deep red, new shade; fine. 
Rubis — a new shade of crimson scarlet. 
M. Pasteur — deep claret crimson ; rich. . 
M. Machet — orange, shaded very brightly with rosy salmon. 
La Lorraine — a superb variety, deep shaded orange. 
Mavourissa — very beautiful dark variety. 
M'de Joubert — a new shade of pink; fine. 
De Candolle — very deep pink, shaded carmine. 
Amateur Olry — a new shade of purplish maroon. 
Ed. About — orange, red and copper color; quite new. 
Emile de Girardin — deep shade of rosy pink. 
F. V. Raspail — very dark, very dwarf, very fine. 
M. Thiers — a light shaded, flesh colored variety; distinct. 
The three following are from our own seed bed, and are really fine varieties. 
Henry Cannell — deep scarlet, large flowers. 
Mrs. Charles Pease — a double Master Christine. 
Wm. Cullen Bryant — probably the finest single scarlet flower ever raised. 
A fine single pink is Concours Regional. 
A fine bronze is Prince Bismarck. 
Now, Mr. Editor, if you can find room in the next number of your Index, I will, 
probably, send a few notes on growing Geraniums in pots for summer. 
CA TALPA S YfilNGAE FOLIA. 
This beautiful flowering tree forms at present a conspicuous object in pleasure 
grounds, being covered with flowers that are spotted like those of a Foxglove. Ca- 
talpas evidently like full exposure to sunshine and air, as I find that those on the 
sunny slopes of our hills are much more floriferous than trees in shaded positions. 
The young wood like that of the Paulownia, which the Catalpa somewhat resembles 
in habit and style of growth, is soft and liable to injury from severe frosts when in 
an unripened state, but when fully mature it withstands a considerable amount of 
frost, and in order to ensure that condition it should be planted on well drained soil, 
and not grown over luxuriantly. The Paulownia with its singular purple flower 
spikes was most effective here in spring, and now the Catalpa is even more interest- 
ing, owing to the dearth of flowering trees which there is late in summer. — J. Groom , 
Linton, in The Garden. 
YELLOW FRUITED GUELDER ROSE. 
Having for many years grown this fine hardy shrub in the south of Ireland with- 
out ever succeeding in geting it either to flower, or produce its ornamental bunches 
of bright colored berries, I availed myself of a visit to the unrivalled collection of 
my friend, M. A. Lavallee, at Segrez, on Monday last, in order to see this shrub, 
which was then in full and copious fruit in one of his shrubberies; and on his point- 
ing it out to me I was much surprised to see the berries of a most brilliant scarlet 
color, instead of yellow as I expected them to be. M. Lavallee, however, informed 
me that the color they assume in the early autumn is bright golden yellow, which, 
as the season advances, changes to scarlet, and ends by becoming black as ink before 
the berries fall off the bush. The birds usually so fond of berries do not seem to 
touch these at all. — W. E. G. in The Garden. 
Among the curiosities on exhibition at the meeting of the Indiana State Horticul- 
tural Society, held at Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana, December 16, 17 and 18, 1879, 
was a specimen of Paulownia imperialis , wnieh had made the enormous growth of 
fifteen feet in height and five inches in diameter in one year. The original tree was 
planted several years ago by a resident of Dublin on his lawn, but the winters are 
too severe for it and each year it dies to the ground, but the root remains uninjured 
and in spring throws up from two to four shoots that make similar enormous growth. 
