D. Elegans. — Another creeping species 
from various parts of tropical Asia, admirably 
adapted for covering the old dead trunks q£ 
Tree Ferns or rock-work in the warm con¬ 
servatory or Fernery, its fronds are larger 
than those of the last species, and of a bright 
green color. Both this species and its still 
more elegant variety 2). disaeetu, are admir¬ 
ably suited for culture in vases or hanging 
baskets, being of free and vigorous growth. 
1). nemiplera.—A pretty little species from 
the tropics, bearing a profusion of dark green 
pinnate fronds, which vary from three to 
twelve inches In length. It grows very freely 
in a temperate Fernery, and makes a dense 
and effective plant grown in a shallow pan. 
Our illustration shows its habit and general 
characteristics. 
D. Mooreana. — One of the most noble 
species in cultivation, producing gracefully 
curved fronds, two to four feet high, nearly 
as broad at the base, and of a delicate pale 
green color. The. large fronds are elegantly 
cut into numerous small, blunt segments, and 
are remarkable for the prominent, manner in 
which the sori show in a dotted manner on 
the upper surface. It will make a grand 
exhibition plant, and grows vigorously in an 
intermediate temperature. 
D. Pnrvuln. —This is a very dwarf species, 
of Liliputian proportions, but useful for 
growing on a block of wood, or on the stem 
of a tree Fern. Its small, daik green, finely- 
cut fronds are about an inch long, aud nearly 
os broad at the base, produced at short inter¬ 
vals u'ong a slender rhizome. This little 
plant is a native of Borneo, whence it was 
sent to Messrs. Veitch by their enthusiastic 
collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. 
D. Pcntaphylla, —This is rather an uncom 
mon species iu collections, and very distinct, 
somewhat resembling a Pteris in the shape 
of its thick fronds, which are of a dark and 
shining green color, generally divided into 
fine segments, hence its specific name. It 
makes an; effective plant grown iu a broad, 
shallow pan, well elevated on a .compost of 
rough fibrous pnat and sand. 11 is a native 
of Malaga, and requires stove treatment. 
D. Pyxidata. —A strong-growing aud very 
ornate species that does well in a moderuto 
temperature. Its large, triangular fronds arc 
borne on durk-brown rhizomes, which Affect 
an erect habit. Its young fronds are of a 
charming light green color, while the older 
ones, when thoroughly hardened, keep a long 
time in water after being out. When well 
grown this plant makes an effective speci¬ 
men, especially in spring and early summer. 
It is a native of Australia. 
I). Tenuifolta. —A slender-growing species 
of elegant habit, forming beautiful specimens 
when well-grown. Its fronds are elegantly 
cut into a multitude of light green segments, 
aud droop over at the points iu the most 
graceful manner possible. Its variety strieta 
is rather more erect in habit, and both make 
fine exhibition or decorative plants grown in 
pots, in a stove or intermediate temperature. 
Native of the tropics.— F. W. R., in Garden. 
dryness of the climate. Often trees seem to 
be literally dried up. 
The smaller fruits, on the contrary, pro¬ 
duce abundantly in Colorado. Strawberries 
yield enormous and delicious crops. Rasp¬ 
berries do well. Melons grow large and 
abundant. In the extreme Southern part of 
t he Territory, along the ltio Grunde, in the 
Mexican district, there are many fine vine¬ 
yards, and wine making is an important 
industry. This is 250 miles south of Denver. 
When the narrow gunge rail way, now in 
operation to Pueblo and under const motion 
to Trinidad is pushed forward down the Rio 
Grande, reaching the great vineyards about 
El Paso in New Mex ico and the fine tropical 
HARE’S-FOOT FERNS.-fDavallias.) 
FRUIT GROWING IN COLORADO 
Denver, Col., Aug. 4, 1873. 
No fruit is raised in Colorado. Her people 
are entirely dependent upon “the States” 
for their supply. It comes principally from 
California, and is freighted at enormous cost. 
It often happens that pears, plums, peaches 
and grapes are purchased In the Sacramento 
market for from two to four cents per pound 
and sold in Denver at twenty, with no profit 
to the dealer, on account of the excessive 
rate for transportation and the waste en 
route. Peaches are sometimes from Salt 
Lake, and grapes (Concord and Catawba) 
from Kansas, at less cost: but the latter do 
not come into very successful competition 
here with the California varieties, and the 
shipments are inconsiderable. 
Fruit, therefore, is dear in Colorado. The 
prevailing quotations the season tlirough, 
lasting from the middle of June, to the last 
of September are ; peaches, 20 to SO ets. per 
lb.; pears, 15 to 25c.; plums, 25 to 30c.; grapes, 
20 to 40e.; apricots, 20 to 25c. There seems 
to be no “graduating scale,” no regular 
supply. Sometimes there will lie no fmit on 
the market for several days, or an entire 
absence of some kinds find scarcity of others. 
Then the price for what, little there is will be 
doubled. Now and then several car loads 
will arrive, and dealers will strike up a brisk 
competition, often bringing in for a few 
hours u kind of fruit panic, when fine pears 
can be bought at from 0 to 8 cents per pound 
and grapes 10 to 15. by the quantity. 
Apples, until September, are held up, sel¬ 
dom getting below ten cents per pound. But 
later, the Missouri aud Michigan varieties 
are brought in, California and Utah cease to 
ship any, and the price drops as low as 4 or 5 
cents per pound, often good qualities selling 
at $5 per barrel. 
During each season upwards of *100,000 is 
sent out of the territory for fruit, and almost 
double this amount is paid to the railways 
for freight on this single article. Bueh being 
the ease, it is often asked why the gardeners 
and farmers of Colorado do not begin to raise 
fruit. We answer that up to three years ago 
it was not thought that it could bo raised 
here, aud any attention to its culture was 
purely experimental. The past two years, 
however, many orchards have been started 
iu various parts of the territory, find several 
nurseries, while Eastern fruit growers, notic¬ 
ing this lack have, especially during the past 
spring, shipped hither small trees by the car 
load. There are some drawbacks that still 
deter many from engaging in this branch of 
husbandry. Generally speaking, results thus 
far do not justify the opinion that this will be 
a good fruit country. Taking examples of 
every thorough trial that have come to our 
knowledge, both in Northern and Southern 
Colorado, the outlook is not encouraging. 
Mr. Feiuun, iri his place near Denver, 
began his experiments in 18(50, when he set 
out (JO three-year-old dwarf pear trees. Up 
to 1872 their growth was satisfactorjn They 
stood from fi to 10 feet high and measured 10 
incites in circumference at one foot from the 
ground. Soon after leaving out last year 
the blight took hold of them and thus far 
about twenty hav c died, while several others 
made no growth the past season. In 1870, he 
set 1.^1 more three-vear-olds. Up to now one- 
third have died and half the balance are 
These trees were all cultivated 
The old genus Davnllla is now broken up 
into various sections by modern pteridolo- 
gist«, but as the name is still familiar in most 
gardens, we shall adhere to it in this case. 
Most of the species are natives of tropical or 
sub tropical countries, and produce their 
fronds at intervals along a creeping rhizome 
which is more or less covered with chaffy 
scales. Many of the species are valuable 
decorative Ferns, and useful either for pot 
HEMIPTER A . 
eulture or for hanging baskets, and orna¬ 
mental vases in the conservatory or drawing 
room. Some furnish elegant fronds for cut¬ 
ting, and among others useful for this pur¬ 
pose we may mention D. pyxidata, I), ele- 
ya/ns, D. disftecta, 1). but lata, D. tenui folia, 
and one or two others. The fronds selected 
for this purpose should lie well developed, 
and then they will last a long time in water. 
These plants grow well in a compost of 
fibrous peat and sand, to which about one-fifth 
of fresh turfy loam may be added. The pots 
should be thoroughly well drained, for though 
DavalUas, like most other Ferns, like an 
abundant supply of vvuter when growing, 
they speedily show signs of weakness in a 
sour and stagnant compost. Borne of the 
smaller species, as D. parvula aud D. peduta, 
may be grown on the trunks of the larger 
Tree Ferns, and grow very well in such situa¬ 
tions if plentifully supplied with water by 
syringing them over once or twice a day. 
Jj. aruleala is a curious seandent species, 
and may be grown as a stove climber. One 
or two fine species have been added to our 
collections recently, as the stately D. Moore¬ 
ana, and the elegant D. tyernumni. D. 
hemiptera is another pretty little species. 
This plant, of which we give an excellent 
illustration, reminds one of some of the 
smaller-growing Lindsay# in habit and gen¬ 
eral appearance. We shall here allude briefly 
to a few of the best Davallias in cultivation 
for general decorative purposes. 
D. Bullata .—A dwarf-growing species from 
the Malayan Archipelago, bearing fight green 
triangular fronds at intervals along a creep¬ 
ing rhizome, the latter being covered pro¬ 
fusely with reddish-brown scales. It is a 
useful Fern, and soon envelopes the pan or 
wire basket in which it may be grown with 
its dense green fronds. Its elegantly cut 
fronds are valuable for grouping along with 
choice cut flowers. 
fruits of old Mexico, Colorado will be supplied 
with all the choicest varieties at much cheap¬ 
er prices than now. But the El Paso region 
lies six hundred miles south of us, and it is 
not probable that the railway will be opened 
through Inside of five years. Meanwhile the 
young orclmrded Colorado will be maturing, 
and wo shall know better wliat kind of a 
fruit raising country this is. Up to now a 
Colorado apple would be a curiosity. b. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTES, 
Forget-Me-Not in the Drawing-Room .—A 
large handful of MyosotiS pal nutria or For¬ 
get-me-not, were gathered in August and, 
as related by T. W. Trussler in the Garden¬ 
er’s Magazine, to preserve them as long a 
period as possible, they were put in a large 
soup plate filled with rain water. The flow¬ 
ers were placed near the window, so as to 
enjoy the advantages resulting from an 
abundance of light and air, and the water 
was replenished when needful. In a surpris¬ 
ingly short spuec of time—three weeks. I 
believe—white, thread-like roots were emit¬ 
ted from the portion of the flower stalks iu 
the water, and they ultimately formed a 
thick net-work over the plate. The flowers 
remained quite fresh, excepting a few of the 
most advanced when gathered, and, as soon 
as the roots began to run in the water the 
buds began to expand, to take the place of 
those which faded, and up to the middle of 
November, the bouquet—if it may be so 
called—was a dense mass of flowers, aud a 
more beautiful or chaste ornament for an 
indoor apartment cannot be Imagined. 
Roues and Ladies—A well-known German 
florist related, in a high state of irritation, 
his troubles in this way. He said—“I have 
so much drouble mit de Ladies ven dey come 
to buy mine rose ; dey vants him hardy, dev 
vauts him doubles, dey vauts him moontly, 
dey vants him fraerand, dey vauts him nice 
gooler, dey vants him ebery dings in one 
rose. I hopes I am not vat you calls von 
uncallant man, hut I have somedbues to say 
to dat ladies, ‘ Madame, I never often sees 
dat ladies dat vas rich, dat vas good temper, 
dat vas youngs, dat vas clever, dat vas per¬ 
fection in one ladies. I see her much not 1’ ” 
THE HORNET RASPBERRY 
We find the following in a late German¬ 
town Telegraph “The Rural New-York¬ 
er states ‘ that after a trial of one hundred 
different raspberries, and fifteen years’ expe- 
riene, there are now really no better and 
more profitable kinds than these r—These fa¬ 
mous old sorts, such as Miami, Doolittle, 
Franconia, Briiii-kie’s Orange, Knevitl.’s 
Giant and Hudson River Antwerp have, as 
yet, no superiors. We have, it is true, made 
some progress in numbers of varieties, but 
only in important qualities.’ Not a word is 
said here of the ‘Hornet,’ which we not only 
greatly prefer to any in this list, after having 
grown nlL of them, but would prefer it to all 
other varieties in a bunch. We have refer- 
euce only for growing it in private gardens ; 
hut we believe that even for murket purpos¬ 
es, where the market is near, it would be the 
most profitable of all from the high juice 
which it would command. Our erop this 
year was graud enough to repay our friend, 
Col. Moore, for a visit of inspection.” 
likely to, 
thoroughly. Of 100 Washington plum set in 
is; I, but lew are left. Apples and quinces 
do well. He has grape vines eight years old, 
but either late frosts iu spring or early frosts 
iu fall liave generally destroyed tie l'ruit. 
In Southern Colorado, however, on the 
Arkansas, results seem to have been better. 
At Canon City Mr. Frazer has au orchard 
of 1,000 trees, mostly apples and pears. After 
rejieated experiments and care to secure 
hardy varieties lie finds that all hi* apple 
trees are now doing well. The varieties on 
his place are chiefly the Ben Davis, Fameuse, 
Romanite, Red Astraehan, Early Harvest, 
Perry Rupert, Yellow Bellflower and Wine 
Bap. With peaches he has not succeeded at 
all, so with ajiricots ; while plums and grapes 
promise well. 
The past winter in Colorado was ojieu and 
mild, and .vet all the nurserymen aud garden¬ 
ers iu the vicinity of Denver complain of 
serious losses. Mr. DiLLOJt reported to the 
Denver Farmers’ Club, that nearly all his 
peach trees were killed, so with the quince ; 
Many plum trees which had been out four 
years, aud apple trees three years, were 
killed. Borne attribute the loss of trees not 
so much to cold weather as to the extreme 
The Triomphe De Gand Strawberry, in 
California, bears two crops in a season—the 
fruit of the second crop larger in size than 
that of the first, but not so abundant. It is 
said to stand the hot season without water 
better than other berries. 
