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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ September, 
upon them, and the growth under such conditions has no constitution, and will 
be open to mischief in the nastiness of November. Remove all offsets ready, 
and they will get well established before the winter. Seedlings are growing 
fast, and many of them showing signs of an autumn bloom. Their childish 
playfulness is pretty and excusable, but the less the old plants bloom in autumn 
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the better. —F. D. Horner, Kirkhy Malzeard^ Ripon. 
SALPIGLOSSIS GKANDIFLOKA. 
® HE forms of this fine hardy annual known as the New Hybrids are so 
beautiful, that they deserve to be placed quite at the head of these decora- 
? tive fiowers. They are so beautifully and richly marked as to deserve to 
be styled the Orchids among the hardy annuals. Growing to a height of 
from 2 ft. to ft., the main stem puts forth several side branches, all of which 
bear numerous fiowers. The blossoms bear the resemblance of a broad convex 
tongue issuing from a tube, and in colour they vary from nearly white to deep 
blue-purple, and all are more or less marbled with a dark colour on a pale ground. 
In order to have Salpiglossis fully displayed, a bed should be sown in lines in 
April, and the more open and sunny the spot the better will it be for the 
fiowers. Provided there be moisture at the roots, the bright sun overhead adds 
to the beauty of the blossoms, the gorgeous colours being enhanced thereby. 
The Salpiglossis is very useful indeed for cutting from, and if the flowers be 
gathered in the cool of the morning,' before the sun plays on them, they will last 
a long time in water.—R. Dean. 
CUPKESSUS CALIFORNICA. 
f N his Traite General des Coniferes (p. 127), M. Carriere indicates amongst 
the little-known species, the Cypress of California, introduced by seeds in 
? 1847. M. Parlatore in the Prodromus, quotes this plant as a doubtful 
synonym of C. Goveniana, with which, however, M. Carriere regards it as 
having little in common, it being, in his opinion, more nearly related to C, 
Macndbiana. 
Professor Ch. Martins describes in the Revue Horticole^ 1875, p. 108, a tree of 
this species, planted in the Montpellier Garden in 1857, in a position sheltered 
from the north and west. It was raised from a graft of Cupressus californica^ worked 
on the pyramidal Cypress. The branches grow horizontally and drooping, so that 
a large branch starting from the trunk at the height of 10 ft. would reach the 
soil at a distance of from 10 ft. to 13 ft. The smaller branchlets are decussate; and 
the leaves are oval, much charged with a white resinous matter on their edges, 
which gives the foliage a whitish hue. 
This tree—represented by the accompanying woodcut from the work above 
quoted—grew vigorously, and at the end of sixteen years had reached the following 
dimensions :—Its vertical height was about 30|- ft., and the circumference of its 
trunk between 3 ft. and 4 ft. from the soil was nearly 4|- ft., while the branches 
