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AMERICAN AQRICULTURIST. 
[Febrcakt, 
" German IVy." — Senedo milcanoides. 
. Under tlic name of " German Ivy " we liave 
cultivated for several years a very quick growing, 
but rather tender climber. In shape its leaves 
somewhat resemble those of the true Iv)', hence 
its popular name — but it is really neither an Iv_v, 
nor German. The plant is from the Cape of Good 
Hope, and belongs to the Composite family, one 
which gives us but few climbers. It has had a 
great variety of names — the correct one we be- 
lieve, being Senecio mikanoides. Senecio is a very 
large genus, containing species from all parts of 
the world. The name mikanoides is given to the 
present one from its resemblance in its climbing 
habit to Mikania. Among other names for this 
plant we find Senecio scandens, Delairea odorata, 
D.scnndens, Breonia palmata, etc. When the plant 
lias liberty to run to an unlimited extent, it sel- 
dom flowers, but sometimes when confined, es- 
pecially if grown in a pot where its roots be- 
come crowded, it blossoms freely. We are in- 
debted to a friend in Lawrence, Mass., for the 
specimen from which the engraving is made. 
The flowers are of a lively yellow, and fragrant ; 
the}', as well as the leaves, are shown consider- 
ably less than the natural size. The chief use 
of the plant is to form a leafy screen, a purpose 
to which its large foliage and rapid growth well 
adapt it. It answers to cover unsightly objects 
in the grounds, and makes an excellent window 
plant within doors. It grows with the greatest 
ease from cuttings, every joint making a plant. 
When is a Tree Grafted? 
A correspondent in Whiteside Co., 111., writes 
to the Agriculturist : "We have a few R. I. Green- 
ing trees which were bent down when small, 
and layers were made of them ; therefore, the 
trees we now have are all grafted, roots and all. 
I wish to know whether the seed from the fruit 
of these trees will produce the same variety or 
not." The writer of the above does not seem to 
have a very distinct idea of what grafting is, 
and, in common with many others, supposes the 
term grafted applies to a quality of fruit, instead of 
to the process by which varieties are propagated. 
The trees lie re- 
fers to, instead of 
being any more 
completely graft- 
ed than trees usu- 
ally are, in fact, 
are not grafted at 
all, but are mere- 
ly R. I. Greenings 
" on their own 
roots," as the gar- 
deners saj'. If 
cions from a very 
indifferent " na- 
tural" tree were 
to be inserted in- 
to these Greening 
trecs,thc fruit pro- 
duced by them 
would be "graft- 
ed fruit," not with- 
standing its infe- 
rior quality. As 
we are in the ha- 
bit of perpetuat- 
ing onlj' choice 
varieties of fruit 
by grafting, many 
take it as a mat- 
ter of course that 
fruit thus propa- 
gated must be of a superior qualitj', which is in 
some way derived from, or imparted to it, by the 
operation of grafting. Tliis impression is aided 
by the fact that budding is also called inocula- 
ting, and as this latter term is also used for vac- 
cinating it has probably given the idea that the 
character of a tree is modified by the introduc- 
tion of some virus or principle into its S3'Stem. 
Tlie error of this impression will be manifest 
when we compare the operations of grafting and 
budding with other modes of propagation. In 
making a laijer, a branch is partly buried iu the 
earth, and it remains more 
or less in union with the 
parent plant until it makes 
roots of its own. In propa- 
gating by cuttings, the branch 
is completely severed from 
the parent, and planted iu 
the ground to strike root and 
form a new individual. In 
grafting, a cutting is planted 
in another tree, with which 
it unites, and uses roots al- 
ready provided, instead of 
making roots of its own. 
The cion or cutting used in 
grafting has several buds 
upon it, while in budding a 
single bud is employed. The 
future growth from the cion 
or bud partakes of the char- 
acter, good or bad, of the 
tree from which it is taken ; 
and, though the fruit may 
be somewhat modified by 
the character of the stock 
upon which it is grafted or 
budded, we believe the influ- 
ence is always confined with- 
in ratlier uari'ow limits. 
fruit districts, as lias formerly been done: 
A2)ples.—'Ear\y Harvest, Red June, Sweet 
June, Early Penuock, Maiden's Blush, Rambo, 
Snow Apple, Jonathan, Yellow Bellllowcr, 
Talman, Rawles' Janet, Willow Twig, Wine 
Sap.. .Peara.— White Doj'eune, Flemish Beauty, 
Seckcl, Duchess, Jersey, Easter Beurrc, Bart- 
lett, Osband's Summer. ..C/iCTries.—Eaily Rich- 
mond Grapes.— Concord, Uartford Prolific, 
Delaware, Norton's Virginia, Clinton, Ilerbe- 
mout Quinces.— The Orange Quince . . .Black- 
berries. — New HocheWe.. .Baspberries. — Dooliltlc's 
Purple Cane, Ohio Ever-bearing... S(»aw6e)Ti6s. — 
Wilson's Albany, Iowa.. . . Gooseberries. — Hough- 
ton, Upright Cluster, or Pale Red... Currants. — 
Red Dutch, White Dutch, Grape, Victoria. 
A new " Everlasting Flower." 
(Helipterum Sanfordii.) 
Those flowers having that peculiar papery 
texture which enables them to preserve their 
forni and color upon being dried, are de- 
servedly popular. Besides being useful in the 
garden, they are valuable for dry bouquets, 
which make very pretty winter decorations. 
The number of these has been much increased 
of late years, and wo now have a quite full 
assortment of colors, from the pure white of the 
Ammobium and Ac7vclinium, to the purple of some 
of the ITelichrysums. Last autumn we saw ai 
the collection of Mr. James Vick, at Rochester, 
a fine golden yellow everlasting flower, the hab- 
it and color of which were very pleasing. It 
was the recently introduced Uelipterum Sanfordii, 
which is a very pretty border plant and when 
dried, holds its color remarkably well. Like all 
the rest, when intended to be preserved iu the 
dry state, this should be picked as soon as the 
flowers expand, or before they are fully opened. 
Mr. Vick has sent us a specimen and we give 
an engraving which shows a cluster of the nat- 
Pruits for Illikois. — At 
a recent meeting of the Illi- 
nois Horticultural Soc'y the 
following fruits ■were recom- 
mended for general cultif ation, without dividing 
the State into Northern, Central and Southern 
HELIPTERrrM SANPOBDII. 
Ural size, and at the left a much reduced figure 
showing the manner of growth of the plant 
