1870 . ] 
SWEET-SCENTED FLOWERS.-NO. II. 
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I had expected that some good crosses would have made their appearance ere 
this, as the plant seeds freely. It takes twelve months, however, to vegetate, and 
so may have disappointed hybridizers in getting up the young crop. The same may 
be said of L. giganteum. We have a stock of thriving young plants of both sorts, 
which have vegetated this spring from seed sown in February, 1869, those of the 
latter sort from plants grown and flowered in the open border.—J. Webster, 
Gordon Castle. 
SWEET-SCENTED FLOWERS. 
No. II.— The Tuberose as Grown in America. 
f OBSERVE by an article in the Florist for January last, and also from 
inquiries and remarks on culture in other gardening periodicals, that the 
Tuberose is beginning to attract attention in England ; and I have been led 
^ to conclude that in a few years’ time it will probably be grown in about 
one garden -in a hundred, if those who have grown it, and those who have 
not, favour us with a series of articles on the way to do it! Had it been 
the case of a seedling Variegated Zonal Pelargonium to be sent out for the 
first time at a guinea or upwards per plant, warranted small, the floral world 
would have gone mad to obtain it; but as it is onlg one of the sweetest and purest 
of white flowers grown, obtainable, too, in flower all the year, and only costing 
five cents, comparatively few persons in England think it worth troubling them¬ 
selves about. 
I never heard of any great success attending the efforts of the few growers of 
the Tuberose in England. This may, in a great measure, be owing to the miser¬ 
able roots usually offered for sale; but I have no doubt that if there was a 
demand for good roots, the supply would be forthcoming, if not from Europe, at 
least from this country. Peter Henderson states that there are a million of roots 
grown in the New York neighbourhood, and as that is about the northern limit 
of successful cultivation, except for the flowers, we can imagine that there is also 
a large quantity grown further south. 
As regards the flowers, they are used at all seasons for making up wedding 
bouquets and funeral wreaths, as well as for decorating churches, and perfuming 
restaurants. They may be obtained from a single flower in a scented geranium 
leaf, or a sprig of Lycopod, for the button-hole, to a dish 2 ft. in diameter filled 
with the blossoms set in sand, and can be purchased from the flower-girls in 
Broadway, New York, all the year round. No one expects to grow the roots as- 
a trade speculation in England, the summers are not hot enough ; but it would 
be easy to have abundance of Tuberose flowers, say from the first of September 
to Christmas, in gardens of any pretension. What would give to most ladies 
more pleasure in the way of flowers than an abundant supply of Tuberose 
blossoms during the shooting season, when, as a rule, if flowers are abundant,, 
there is little variety ? ]\Ir. Gibson, of Battersea Park, has shown the public how 
