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The Bouvardia. 
Bouvardias have long been grown by flor- 
ists for use as cut flowers. They are low- 
growing evergreen shrubs, chiefly natives of 
Mexico, and must be grown under glass in 
winter. An experienced amateur can grow 
them succesfully at a sunny window in win- 
ter and they are worth a little extra trouble. 
All the species and varieties are beautiful 
and one cannot go wrong in buy- 
ing any of them. The colors are 
white, red, scarlet, pink, and yel- 
low. The first double variety was 
produced in this country a few 
years since by Mr. A. Neuner. The 
accompanying illustration, Fig. 
728, is an excellent portrait of the 
“A. Neuner,” and also shows the 
habit of blooming of the siugle- 
flowered kinds. Nearly all the 
best single varieties were also rais- 
ed in this country, such as David- 
soni, Hendersoni, “The Bride,” and 
several others. Bouvardia longi- 
flora is a species bearing fragrant 
white flowers with larger tubes 
than most others. The plants are 
multiplied by root cuttings and 
cuttings of young wood. The 
plants are best grown by turning 
them into a rich well-prepared bor- 
der in late spring or early summer. 
An unusual strong or straggling 
shoot will sometimes appear, and 
should be pinched in. Where 
growth is too thick it should be 
thinned out. The plants will need 
but little attention, however, except keep- 
ing the ground free from weeds till the 
approach of frost, when they should be 
carefully lifted with a ball of earth, pot- 
ted, staked, tied up, and set aside in the 
shade for a few days. When they are 
grown in beds in the green-house, they 
may at once be transferred from the ground 
to the bed. They will bloom freely all 
winter. 
Floral Notes. 
July should mean for the gardener, in a 
large sense, rest and recreation. In other 
words, everything, up to this time, should 
have been so well and so thoroughly done 
as to safely let nature go on alone for a week 
or so in her own happy way; but this is not 
always quite possible because of too much 
or too little rain, untimely frosts, neglect to 
Bouvardia "A. Neuner.” Fie;. 728. 
do the right thing at the right time, doing 
the wrong thing at any time, want of suffi- 
cient help, and other more or less valid ex- 
cuses, the force of some of which must be 
admitted. All, however, should in time 
look ahead and work for a short season of 
rest and recuperation in July, and feel that 
they have earned it; but, at the same time, 
do not let the plants feel that they have 
been neglected, or the weeds either. Any 
thing in the way of cleaning up, planting 
out, repotting, thinning out, staking, tying 
up, etc., left over from last month, should 
now be finished, and then hie to the moun- 
tain or the lake, as suits you best. 
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We received some very fine Wintergreen 
berries from Florence, Mass., the largest 
being three-quarters of an inch in diameter. 
Can the reader beat this record? 
The Wintergreen, by-the-way, 
would make a fine ornamental 
berry plant for pot culture. Some- 
body should take hold of this. 
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A friend writes us that her Am- 
aryllis Johnsoni has seventeen 
flower stalks this year. We saw 
the same plant three years ago 
with nineteen stalks. This means 
upward of sixty flowers to one pot 
of bulbs, and upward of twenty 
flowers were out at the same time. 
The bulbs begin to bloom about 
this time or a little earlier, and 
continue a considerable time. 
This Amaryllis should be com- 
monly grown as an ornament 
for the garden. It is easily win- 
tered over in a cool cellar. 
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That fine old Rose, Harrison’s 
Yellow, seems to have lost much 
of its popularity; and yet its deep 
golden yellow is unsurpassed and 
rarely equalled among Roses. It 
has its faults, however, and does 
not like to be handled; or rather, one does 
not like to handle it. It blooms freely and 
is beautiful in the bud, and one should try 
and find a place for it in some retired spot 
by itself. In some places it would make a 
good hedge. 
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Some forty or fifty years ago Aquilegia 
glandulosa was one of the most admired of 
hardy herbaceous plants. It produced or 
