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PRICE SIX CENTS, 
82.50 PER YEAR. 
NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N, Y, JULY 2ft, 1872 
[Entered accortfin* to Aot ol Congress, in th e year 18T3, by l>. D. T. Moo uk, m the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
t booome diseased, and decay booh after basket plants:— AtUanttvm enudutum, A.. 
blooming, and it is necessary to keep up the ax&imlie, and A. Farlcyemc. The best 
supply from the little offsets, transplanting kinds of DavaMas for baskets are bullata, 
—- over* Full or in earlv Spring. The L. longi- dissceta, and pentatfhylla. NephrolepUs 
exuUatn nud pectlmta both look well when 
suspended, but are not so good for a basket 
as N. titberom. Platylomu Jlexumum, 
Doodin lunulata, Axplenium Jl<thellifoli¬ 
um, l‘ter is seaberula ,* all the species of 
Drynnria and Nyphobolus are excellent 
basket ferns. 
we have under the name of “ Umbrella 
Plant.”—C. V. S„ Viola, III. 
No 1. Squirrel-tail grass, (Hordcuinjubat- 
i/to;) common on the shores of yie lakes 
and low, moist prairies. Its long awns 
probably suggest the common name. 
No. 2. Burning Bush or Waahoo (Kuony- 
mux at/ropnr pu/rcus), There are several 
species and all are known in some localities 
as Waahoo, and by other local names. 
No. H is a Cyperua, but we cannot give the 
specific name from the imperfect specimen 
you send, In forwarding sedges and grass¬ 
es, wo should have the flower or seed-stalks 
as well as the leaves. 
PLEROMA SARMENTOSA 
This beautiful Peruvian plant was dis¬ 
covered by the well known naturalists and 
travelers, Humboldt and Bonpiand many 
j'ears ago, near Cuenca, at an elevation of 
about 8,000 feet. It is known by the natives 
of Peru as “Flore do Gullinuso;” and al¬ 
though known to botanists for a long time, 
it is only within the past half dozen years 
that florists have obtained the plants for 
cultivation. 
This Pleroma is well adapted to green¬ 
house culture, and a splendid and valuable 
acquisition. The accompanying illustration 
is a good representation of the size 
and form of the leaves and flowers, 
but no words or paintiug cun convey 
a true idea of the beautiful and bril¬ 
liant color of the petals. The plant 
is a rather small, straggling shrub, 
the small twigs covered with numer¬ 
ous villous hairs. Flowers two inches 
or more in diameter, and of a deep 
violet color, produced in small pani¬ 
cles at the ends of the branchlets. 
The large, brilliant-colored flowers 
are so showy that a plant in bloom is 
an object that cannot fail to attract 
attention even among the most showy 
collection of green-house plants. 
FLOEICULTURAL NOTES 
Ferns for Baskets.— {See page 45.) We 
transfer from The Garden a hanging basket 
with the basket Fern, Goniophlcbl mu xitb- 
auriculatnm, growing ill it—the elegant 
fronds of which, in full-grown specimens, 
may often be seen hanging down five or six 
feet long. The Garden names the following 
of theJdaideu-hair Ferns that are excellent 
Plants for Name.—I inclose three speci¬ 
mens of plants, which please name through 
the Rural. No. 1 growR only in one place 
in this section of country, as far as 1 know, 
and is confined to one farm only. No. 2 is 
called IVahoo here, hut doeH not answer to 
the description in our old botany. No. 3 
Blowy Lady Slipper.—I send you two 
flowers, leaf and stem for a name. A por¬ 
tion of the flowers are concave, or shaped 
like a bowl, with another portion 
serving as a lid or cover. It resem¬ 
bles poko, but the shape of the flower 
is different from any poko flower gen¬ 
erally seen here. Aa I am no botan¬ 
ist, will you please to uame it in the 
Rural New-Yorker. — G. II. B., 
Waapacca, Wi.8. 
The name of the plant is Cypvipe- 
dlum xpectuMlc , or Showy Lady 
Slipper: also called Spotted Mocca- 
slu-flowor. The botanical or scien¬ 
tific name of the genus, Oupripedium , 
is made up from the Greek name for 
Venus and that of slipper or buskin, 
and means Venus-slipper. It is a 
very showy plant, and quite common 
in your State in low, moist grounds. 
' There is also a small white species, 
jp?\ C. cavdldlum, and a yellow 0. pubex- 
cenx, found on high grounds in Wis- 
cousin and other Western States. 
E Sowing Lily Seed.—C. G. Pmx- 
f-. \ ole says:—“My present practice is 
. to sow the seeds, as soon as ripe, in 
frames or in the open ground, In boxes 
Ry with open bottoms, across which a 
IL'-, few laths are milled. The boxes being 
plunged ill the soil, these laths pre¬ 
vent their being thrown out by the 
frost, allow the moisture to rise from 
below, thus obviating the necessity of 
watering, which Is liable in this in¬ 
stance to do more Injury than good, 
permit the roots to feed in fertile soil 
placed under the boxes, and hold in 
\ place the soil in the boxes, if it is 
A ever necessary to move them. The 
frames or boxes are supplied with 
\ j light, sandy soil, with which leaf 
V mold or peat has been freely mixed. 
' Though a few plants may appear dur¬ 
ing the next summer, after sowing, 1 
do not look for the seed to start till 
the second spring, eighteen or twenty 
months from sowing. The little bulbs 
should remain undisturbed two years 
or more.” -- 
Layering Roses. — Please tell me 
the best time to layer roses; also how 
to keep green lice off them, without 
injuring the plants or tlosvers.—C. P. 
Parker. 
Julv and August are the months in 
which roses are usually layered. The 
earlier the branches are layered the 
more roots will they produce before 
cold weather. Green fly, or lice, can 
be killed by the free use of tobacco 
water, or even strong soap suds. 
Tuberose Bulbs three years old 
give the best show of spikes and flow¬ 
ers. We advise S. C. M. to select such. 
PINKS AND LILIES. 
Which is the best* time for sowing 
German pink seed, Spring or Fall? 
With us they arc perfectly hardy and 
bloom better the second season than 
the first. What is the best method 
of raising carnations, and do they re¬ 
quire protection duriug winter in this 
climate? What iB the treatment for 
the Liltum lonyijlorurn f Mine came 
from Ja mes Vick, and bloomed hand¬ 
somely last year; this year it spread 
very much, and has put up live or six 
stems, all healthy and vigorous-look¬ 
ing, but it is not going to bloom; none 
of the stems are more than six inches 
high, and I can find no sign of buds. 
Should the roots be divided this fall, 
or left where they are?— Raleigh, 
Raleigh, N. C. 
There is probably very little pref¬ 
erence in regard to time of sowing 
seed of German Pinks or Carnations. 
If sown early in the Fall the plants 
will become strong enough before cold 
weathc-r to pass safely through Win¬ 
ter, and bloom the following season. 
The Carnations are hardy even much 
further north than North Carolina, 
but sometimes suffer from exposure 
to sudden changes of temperature in 
Winter, and it is a safe plan to cover 
the plauts with some line hay or 
straw —just enough to shade them, 
but not sufficient to prevent freezing. 
It is quite probable that the old or 
blooming bulbs planted of the Liltum 
lonylflorum decayed soon after the 
flower stems died, and those now ap¬ 
pearing are from the little bulblets 
which form around the flower stalk. 
After the leaves are off this Summer, 
take up the small bulbs and trans¬ 
plant, giving each sufficient room to 
grow, and, if large enough they will 
bloom next year. In some soils the 
large bulbs of nearly all the lilies 
