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LILITJM DALMATIOUM —(Var. Oatanii.) 
AVe give this week an illustration of an¬ 
other new lily introduced into this country 
through the kindness of Max Leitchlin, 
Carlsrulre, Baden. It was found growing 
wild in the Negro Mountains of Turkey, and 
is probably a near relative of the Martagons 
so long known for their beautiful and unique 
formed flower. This variety grows three to 
five feet in bight; the leaves on the lower 
portion of the stem arc produced in whorls, 
but on the flower scupe they are alteruate, 
as shown. The flowers are about two 
inches in diameter, petals reflexed and of a 
deep purple color, almost black. The bulbs 
are hardy, thriving in almost any good, rich 
garden soil. The peculiar color and grace¬ 
ful habit of this new lily will certainly make 
it a favorite with all who are so fortunate ns 
to obtain a plant or see it when in bloom. 
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FLORIOULTURAL NOTES. 
Sweet AYililain Hybrid*. 
Always wishing to assist nature in pro¬ 
ducing new plants and flowers, 1 have often 
tried to change plants in general growth 
in their color and form, Lite results of which 
which were 1 'eully pleasing to me. This sea¬ 
son I have several seedlings—Sweet William 
Hybrids from seed that I saved lust season 
from a Sweet William stock which 1 placed 
in my bed of Dianthus,.so that I could watch 
the result; and lam really surprised when 
I look at my bed of seedlings, to Bee tire 
beauty of both plants blended in one. As a 
general result, the plants partake of tire na¬ 
ture of the Sweet, AVilltam In foliage and 
growth. They Commenced to bloom earlier 
than my seedling Dianthus, which were 
planted at the game time. 
The flowers are almost all the colors of 
my Dianthus, and about fifty per cent, are 
very large, are extremely double and marked 
the same as lire Dianthus. The flowers tire 
in clusters of throe or four on a stalk of some 
length. They have the fragrance of the 
Sweet William, which makes them very de¬ 
sirable for making bouquets. — m. j. w. m. 
lloi-au Keltic. 
1 send you herewith a plant for its botani¬ 
cal name, and if not heretofore known, to 
call your attention to it. I suppose it to he 
a native species of Solatium meUmgena, but 
supposed that S. meloiwem was a native of 
Africa. 1 find this plant growing on the 
Arkansas bottom, cm the banks of a spring 
creek, at foot of bluff.—J acob Nixon, HVm- 
Jidd, Kansas. 
Tins is the common Horse Nettle, {Solan- 
uni Caroline use,) found in sandy soils, from 
New York to Arkansas, and probably fur¬ 
ther AVest. It, is, as you observe, closely re¬ 
lated to the S. ulelongena , or Egg Plant. The 
Horse Nettle is one of our vilest weeds, and 
should he destroyed whenever and wherever 
found. 
TraitiiiK Arbutus in IIiuiKitiK Baskets. 
In Rural New-Yorker, Aug. 12, you 
say in reply to Virginia Forest’s question 
concerning the trailing Arbutus, (Epigcea re- 
pens), that “ there would he little use to at¬ 
tempt growing it in a hanging basket.” I 
am aware that this is the usual opinion, ami 
is doubtless based on general experience. 
But my own experience—or rather that, of 
the sainted one whom we so recently laid to 
sleep among the flowers she loved so well— 
was more fortunate. For three successive 
seasons she beautified our little; parlor with a 
hanging basket filled with forest plants, of 
which the trailing arbutus formed the prin¬ 
cipal part. The basket was a home-made 
affair, fashioned of annealed wire and lire 
springs of a superannuated hoopsltirt. Then 
early in April, as soon as the snow was gone, 
we gathered trailing arbutus, partridge ber¬ 
ry, {Milchella repens,) winter green, (Gaul- 
theria procumbem) ferns and moss, with 
sometimes a plant of the yellow-blossomed 
wild strawberry, [Frcu/aria vesca.) 
Having collected the plants the basket 
was first lined with soft moss and then tilled 
with light forest mold. A strong root of 
fern was planted in the center, the other 
plants filled in, and the whole kept well 
watered. For many weeks the basket was 
kept gay and fragrant with the successive 
blooms of the arbutus, and as they disap¬ 
peared the delicate hells and bright scarlet 
berries of the Mitchdla, nestling amid the 
rich foliage and soft moss, made a tiling of 
beauty during the entire season. Theslowly- 
uncoiling feathery fronds of the fern gave 
an exotic character to the whole, which 
greatly lightened the effect. 
The conditions observed were:—1st. To 
renew the materials of the basket every 
spring. 2d. To seleet plants with good 
roots, growing in light leaf mold, and, in 
case of the arbutus, to obtain plants plenti¬ 
fully filled with buds. This plant will not 
form buds in a hanging basket; and indeed, 
so far as my observation goes, it will only 
do so when growing over a rock. AY here 
acres of it were growing not one would have i 
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JjITjIXj AX 13 A.T.AXA.TTCTTAX.—(Var. Oatanii.) 
favorable place for it.—G eorge A. Martin, 
Buffalo, K. Y. 
IIow to Traiinplttnt Point l.llle*. 
I wish we could keep the beautiful and 
fragrant pond lily growing in an aquarium. 
Do any of the readers of the Rural New- 
Yorker do so; if so, how do they manage V 
And how can they he transplanted from the, 
ponds and streams where they grow, to 
ponds where they do not? — Emma P. 
Swissiiklm. 
AV E have known a pond to bo stocked with 
pond lilies by securing roots and planting 
pieces of them in the mud in the edge of a 
pond. They spread rapidly. An Illinoisan 
stocked n pond by procuring roots, cutting 
them into pieces six inches long, tying stones 
to them heavy enough to sink thorn, and 
dropping them into the pond nt various 
points. Those who have such ponds that 
cannot be drained, or that it is not desirable 
should lie drained, may ornament them with 
these beautiful flowers with little trouble. 
Growiiiur Pond Mile*. 
On seeing my dish of pond lilies and ad¬ 
miring their beauty and fragrance, I asked, 
why is the pond lily so little cultivated? a 
flower so much admired and so easily grown, 
yet in many places so rare. The answer was ; 
It is not universally known that it can be 
grown so easily. Many ask the question, 
where did you get those pond lilies? AVe 
tell them we ram them. “What! raise 
pond lilies?” AVe reply, yes—raise them as 
easily as corn or potatoes. And as many 
seem interested about them, 1 thought I 
would tell the lovers of flowers how we 
raise ours. 
A few years ago, my husband seeing some 
growing in a distant pond so nicely and 
spontaneously, thought lie would try them 
in his—a small pond of a few rods extent at 
one end of Ids field. He brought home a 
root and set it in. Tliis was done by wading 
iu barefoot, and taking it. between the toes 
and pressing down in the mud. It soon made 
its appearance above the water, and now the 
pond is pretty well covered with leaves and 
lilies, anti it does not have that sickening 
appearance that standing water usually has, 
blit is made the home of one of the most 
beautiful kinds of flowers instead. AVe 
know of no insect that troubles them ; neither 
frost nor wind affects them; nothing molests 
them hut mischievous boys, who love the 
flowers, hut will take no pains to raise them 
themselves. Now I would advise all who 
love this sweet lily to get a root and set it in 
some pond that they can have access to, and 
they will soon reap a rich reward for a little 
trouble .—Maine Farmer. 
Yorker of Aug. 12 for laying off a farm, 
and thinking perhaps your Kansas inquirer, 
or others, might, lie pleased to see other 
plans, I thought. 1 would send mine. My 
front is to the north. Divide into three 
equal lots cast and west, then run a lane 
from lire front, center hack to the second 
fence, then run a single fence back to the 
further side of the farm. Plant a row of 
trees all around the farm, also along each 
cross-fence running east and west. Then a 
row along tire lane by each fence to the 
back field and continue the trees on each 
sido of back field fence the width of the 
lane. Eacli division will then contain about 
Fig. 1 is the house; 2. lawn; 3, kitchen 
garden; 4, small fruit garden; 5, barn¬ 
yard; 6, orchard; 7, grove in pasture. If 
one lias water convenient the plan can be 
altered to advantage by having the barn lot 
back of the house. The house stands back 
from the road about twenty rods. I don’t 
claim any thing like perfection for the plan, 
Fall Planting ol Strnwberrics. 
Aug. 28.—I have neve, a-an much in favor 
of fall planting of strawberries. But when 
one has the plants in bis own garden or can 
obtain them of a neighbor, and then watch 
his chance for a rainy day, something may 
be gained by fall planting. 1 have set out 
plants in August that made a strong new 
growth before cold weather, and the follow¬ 
ing season yielded a fair crop of fruit. Of 
course we cannot .always have favorable 
weather for plan ling in late summer or au¬ 
tumn, an<l 1 think it is a great mistake to 
recommend selling out strawberry plants at 
this season, unless one has them near at band 
and circumstances are all favorable. Be¬ 
cause one is successful tills rainy August, it 
is no good reason for supposing that we can 
he next year. Many of the rules and recom¬ 
mendations of pomologists have been found¬ 
ed upon isolated instances of success; hence 
the many failures when they are put into 
practice. 
Early Grapes. 
Aug. 29.—Grapes are a little late this sea¬ 
son, owing probably to the abundant rains 
of the last few weeks. The Miles, as usual, 
was the first to ripen; the Hartford Prolific 
came next ; neither of which is first-rate 
but will do where there is nothing heller. 
Delaware begins to color finely and in a few 
days w ill d" for the table, and then I have 
nothing better to look for among hardy 
native grapes. The Eumelan promisee well 
this season and is certainly one of the best 
black varieties. Concord lias rotted some 
but will give a fair crop. AV alter, Rogers’ 
Hybrids and Arnold’s Hybrids, except the 
Cornucopia, are badly affected with mildew 
and rot. 1 have purchased and planted 
twenty-six acres. 
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PUBLIC HIGH - WA Y 
PLAN FOR LAYING OUT A FARM. 
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lurrn of a lUtralist. 
DAILY RURAL LIFE. 
a bud or blossom except where there was a 
subcumhcnt rock within an inch or two of 
the surface. 3d. And quite as important as 
all the other items, the basket was kept well 
watered and in the shade. No sunshine was 
ever allowed to strike it, a cool situation 
near a north window being found the most 
Jtarm (L : c0tt0wn. 
%> IS * 
LAYING OUT A FARM. 
As I have seen a plan in the Rural New- 
bul it is the most convenient of any I have 
seen.— John Hendrick, Jasper Co., Mo. 
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CURING CORN FODDER. 
Every fanner knows that there is little 
difficulty in curing corn fodder if it is not 
gathered until nearly or quite ripe. But 
when corn is sown in drills and cultivated 
only for fodder,iirnl then cut when green, it 
is no easy matter to dry out the juices suffi¬ 
cient to prevent moldiuess, even if it docs 
not rot. 
In a majority of cases it is cut too early, 
even to obtain tlie greatest amount of nutri¬ 
ment in a given quantity. AVhen nearly 
ripe, or after the tassels appear and the 
leaves begin to color, is the time when the 
stalks contain the most sugar, and they are 
also in a better condition for preserving 
during winter. If the weatbershould prove 
dry at the time of gathering, the stalks may 
be cut and spread upon tire ground,and then 
turned over every two or three days until 
sufficiently dry for put ting into small stacks. 
But we prefer cutting and tying loosely in 
small bundles, then setting lip in the field 
in small shocks, say a dozen bundles in 
each, binding them together about the top. 
In this condition the stalks may remain 
until wanted for feeding in winter, and gen¬ 
erally they will be fresh and of a green 
color, without moldiness or rot. To pre¬ 
vent the shocks blowing down, set them 
around a few of the uncut stalks, which may 
be left for this purpose at proper distances, 
along the rows. 
From Clio Diary of n Gentleman near Nnv 
York City. 
about two hundred varieties within the past 
ten years, but have gained little except in a 
knowledge of the sorts cultivated. Dela¬ 
ware, Concord and Hartford still remain the 
most reliable among the number. 
Variegated Leaved Altlica. 
Aug. 30.—Four years since I obtained a 
few small plants of the variegated leaved 
Althea with double purple flowers. Two of 
these plants arc standing among the shrub¬ 
bery bordering my lawn, and they are really 
magnificent, ornaments, with their deei> 
green leaves edged and blotched with silvciy 
whlle, with their dark, purple flowers just 
beginning to open. The contrast in color 
between the leaves and flowers is so ?r eat 
that one cannot fail to notice and admire 
this shrub. For an ornamental hedge I do 
not know of any deciduous shrub that is 
more suitable or beautiful, Cuttings of all 
the Altheas, or Rose of Sharon ns they are 
•flea called, grow as readily as Currants if 
set out in spring, but the first winter tUcy 
should be taken up and carefully heeled in 
for if left, in the nursery rows they nre veri¬ 
fiable to be killed. The first season Althea 
cuttings produce very few roots, ami the 
alternate freezing and thawing of the ground 
in fall and winter break these loose front the 
soil and sometimes the plants will be nun. 
plelely lifted out of the ground, and, of 
course, in this situation they soon perish. 
Thousands of these plants are annually lost 
for want of proper care and protection while 
l'ear.Ue* Uottfnsr. 
Aug. 31— 1 notice that the peaches in my 
neighborhood are rotting and cracking badly 
on the trees, and of course such fruit will 
neither ripen or he of any value. The late 
rains have seriously injured the peach crop 
here, and if Delaware growers had to sell 
their crop very low on account ot the qniui- 
tity, lire Jersey cultivators of this fruit are 
about as bad off with a short crop, and what 
there is is very poor in quality. It seems to 
me that fruit growers arc always iu some 
such trouble (at least, that has been my luck), 
for if there is an abundant crop it commands 
scarcely a paying price, and when prices are 
up they have very little to sell. Occasion¬ 
ally, some lucky fellow makes a little money, 
and then there are thousands ready to try 
and do the same ; but the unlucky ones are 
seldom heard of or applauded for making a 
brave attempt. It is about the same in all 
branches of trade—the lucky are the ones 
petted and honored, but they are not always 
the deserving ones. 
inning Glmlioln* liuin*. 
Sept 1 —To make a good display of Gladi¬ 
olus during the summer and autumn, the 
bulbs should he planted at intervals of two 
or three weeks. Those planted first will, of 
course, ripen first, and 1 have found that it 
does lire bulbs no good to let them remain 
in lire ground for any considerable time after 
tire stems and leaves are dead. Mam "f the 
earliest planted are now ripe, ami I am dig¬ 
ging and drying tire Inilbs preparatory to 
placing them in their winter quarters. A lien 
one cultivates an extensive collection ii is 
no easy task to keep each variety separate 
when digging, drying and storing. After 
1 lying several different methods, such ns 
keeping iu flower pots, bags ami small 
boxes, 1 have adopted the following de¬ 
scribed style of boxes:—Select boards one- 
half inch or more in thickness and a foot 
wide, cut into lengths of four or live fed; 
then take common siding, six indies wide, 
and nail them around tire wide hoard, which 
is to he the bottom of your box. Am one 
strip of siding lengthways through the cen¬ 
ter, and then divide the sides into small sec¬ 
tions, using lire same kind of hoards tor par¬ 
titions. In lids way we can have tea to | 
twenty boxes all attached, each holding fix 
to twelve bulbs. Such cases arc very con¬ 
venient, f<H' they can he taken into the gar¬ 
den and as the bulbs are lifted each variety 
with Hie label dropped into one ot the sec¬ 
tions, and w hen tire divisions are all full, the 
case can be carried into some out- house 
where the bulbs will dry without hirther 
trouble. Tire cases are set away for winter 
just as they come from the garden, and 
whenever a bulb of any particular variety is 
wanted, it can lie found without difficulty, as 
the label should be placed on the top ol the 
lilt tarn, i ^ueuiu uv j/iuvvw - i 
bulbs. In the spring the cases nre carried 
out into the garden with the bulbs ami tnc 
labels iu a convenient shape for using- ^ re 
using such cases as described, i have b" n 
able to keep from one to two hundred stub’ 
of gladiolus without tire least trouble m t a 
way of their becoming mixed, or in lilting, 
drying or storing in the winter. 
Autumn Flowers. 
Sept. 2 —It is a very easy matter at this 
season to see where we made mistake 
planting fall blooming plants last s|"| y 
Bedding plants, as generally sold by lb* -■ 
in spring are such diminutive things tlm 11 
cuu handy realize what they will become 
a few mont hs,consequently almost. e\ G 
sets them too close together. ! . s 
tropes and Salvias become an unshapen turn 
and the natural form of tire plant is *><■ itl ' • 
recognized. I think every possessoi t ; 
garden would do well to make no It- 
the general appearance of bedding P - ' 
this season, and then preserve A,, 
guide for next year. It is well not 01 - .. 
note the general appearance, size, co " 
leaf and flower, but. observe the efleet t 
duced in grouping the different kinds. 
liant colors like t he scarlet sage, or m - - 
a decisive cast like the dark leave- < ..J 
and AchyrantJmm, seem to karoioii 
the autumn tints of shrubs and tiees ‘ t iJ 
and should lead in numbeis w* 
season 
more sombre coiors. 
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