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THE DOUBLE TIGER LILY. 
There is not much tendency in the lily 
tribe to produce double flowers, the only 
two double-flowered sorts that we know of 
besides the present being the double while 
and double purple Murtagon lilies. There is 
a variety of the common wiiitc lily known 
in florists’ catalogues as the double white; 
but instead of flowers it simply produces a 
long spike of white leaves differing but little 
from the ordinary green leaves of the plant, 
and is therefore known among botanists as 
L. e irulidum spicatum. 
The variety Lilium tiffnmm plenum, of 
which we give an engraving, was introduced 
into this country by Mr. Thomas Houu 
during bis late residence in Japan, and is 
very rare in this country, and has not, so 
far as we arc aware, been yet introduced in¬ 
to European gardens. It is very double, 
frequently having thirty petals to each 
flower, of the same color and spotting as the 
single species, and is both beautiful and re¬ 
markable. 
Mr. Hogg has also introduced a gold, 
striped-leaved variety of the Tiger Idly, the 
foliage of which is very beautiful; of this, 
only one plant is known to be in this coun¬ 
try. The flower is single, and of a some¬ 
what lighter red color than the common 
species. 
MY ROCKERY. 
My garden flowers are beautiful, and I en¬ 
joy their loveliness most thoroughly; but I 
cannot forget that, day by day, in the shelter 
of yonder woods, “ beautiful children of the 
glen and dell” are wasting their sweetness 
unseen,—cured for only by Nature’s hand, 
visited only by bee and bird. It is not to be 
expected that I can leave my household 
Cares whenever the inclination prompts, and 
so, as the “ mountain would not come to Ma¬ 
homet,” &c.—that is to say, 1 brought the 
woods to my own door. Three years ago I 
chartered a steamboat, and superintended 
t he loading thereupon of some green-mossed 
stones, which had certainly retrained from 
rolling, Judging by their coats. These 1 
piled to suit myself, in the northern angle 
formed by the projection of the steps leading 
to our west piazza. Between and among 
the stones I set all the ferns, or brakes, that 
1 thought would flourish, their delicate roots 
well covered with moss, which, to retain the 
moisture more perfectly, was underlaid by 
broken crockery. These give abundance of 
leafage the year round. Was it. not Thoreau 
who said “ Nature made ferns lbr pure leaves, 
to show what she could do in that line?" I 
put plenty of flowers with my l'urns, a few 
bits of old wood for the lichens which they 
nourished in their decay, a bird’s nest or two, 
and some pine and hemlock cones. I wa¬ 
tered them freely during the first summer 
they were planted out, but less often since 
the plants have grown accustomed to their 
new home. 
It has been a complete success. The fa¬ 
mous Babylonian queen could not have been 
more intensely pleased with her hanging 
gardens than I with my “ stone heap,” as Mr. 
H. unpoetically terms it. Let me show you 
its beauty to-day. Those tall ferns in the 
rear arc the sensitive and cinnamon ferns; 
next the lattice work is the delicate maiden¬ 
hair, and two of the Polypodium family lurk 
in their shade. Here are my Indian turnips, 
which never fail to unroll their striped 
spathos in the spring, or to bear bright clus¬ 
ters of berries in the autumn; the spring 
beauties, adders’ tongues and liverwort, faded 
long ago; for the first warm breath of spring 
sets them to budding and blooming; the lat¬ 
ter improve in size and color eacli year. 
1 he squirrel corn, or Dielyira, makes itself 
very much at home, and blossoms freely; so 
does the bell wort, or Uvularia, and the Me- 
deola, an elegant little plant but little known. 
Here’s my Solomon’s Beal—the tall variety 
and its little sister, the 
Bifolia , — my mitrewort 
and the bishop’s cap, 
which is very beautiful 
with its delicate white 
flowers, and my violets, 
white, and yellow, and 
blue. This rattlesnake 
fern is one of my pets, _ 
and these lycopodiums 
that creep over and 
through the mosses with 
the partridge berry vines. 
Later on, these Pyrola L "" 
and pipsissiwa plants 
will bloom, and my la¬ 
dies’ slippers—for I have 
actually wheedled one of 
the shy beauties into a 
permanent residence with 
the rest of my happy fam¬ 
ily. I have die wild 
columbine, you see, it is 
among my well-beloved spidiums ; and as 
for mosses, you cannot count their number. 
It didn’t, take much time or trouble to 
make my rookery, and it’s an unfailing 
source of pleasure to us all from the time 
that the first bud peeps out of its dow#y 
cradle till the broad fern fronds bend under 
the winter’s snow. Doiie Hamilton. 
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SANCHEZIA NOBILIS VARIEGATA. 
Barring the name, this is one of the rare 
beauties among ornamental foliaged plants, 
it is a novelty here as yet, and only one 
American commercial catalogue that we 
have seen embraces it in its trade lists for 
sale. In English journals it lias the past year 
received high praise, and by some been pro¬ 
nounced the finest plant of tho year’s intro¬ 
ductions. It is of vigorous growth, the 
SyAfSTCIIKSLA N"OT3ILIS AUAXtlKGLVrAL. 
d ns leaves often being more than one foot in name 
iber. length, of a most intense giysn, with veil, at Avliib 
o to or ribs broadly margined with golden yel- visit! 
fling low. Our illustration is from a small plant, now. 
time only, and is also made reduced in size more with 
w*iy to show its general appearance than a repre- ers, 1 
ndor sentatiou of. what the plant is when fully this 
IN THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
My shrubs are planted, many of them, im¬ 
mediately next the lawn, and m y Spirea jmi- 
nifolia , as well as ThalactryoidM have both 
feet; and to-day T am cutting all the flower¬ 
ing stems of this year right, away, or rather I 
am—as they are just, done blooming, and as 
the bloom of next year comes on the growth 
of this —cutting them 
back with a view to have 
the growth start, from 
near the ground*, and 
thus, year by year, keep 
them as marginal plants 
s w k*h-‘beautiful flow- 
^ « rs arrayed against, the 
blooming associates just 
) in back of them. 1 think 
in so doing I have much 
more of real true beauty 
than those who, setting 
the plant, out, by Itself, 
let it, grow up three to 
five feet, showing a bare 
long stem of half its 
height and then a mass 
of while arrayed against 
—nothing. 
L ,^ What a beauty is that, 
graceful-foliaged variety 
named Spire,a Thunberyia ! its flowers, pure 
white, audits foliage so delicate that every 
visitor wants a piece. U must be cut back 
now. Spirea Imgata is showy and pretty; 
with spikes rather than racemes of flow¬ 
ers, blooming, however, on the growths of 
this season; so it should be pruned early 
in spring. 
My l.ilacN 
are beauties, the one of Chinese,, designated 
by Ellwangkk & Barry, of' whom I ob¬ 
tained it, as Hot/mayenm rubra, is, I think, 
the same as that 1 have heretofore known as 
French red. it is the brightest among them 
been beautiful with masses of white flowers all, but they are all handsome, imd a group 
from the very ground, upward about two of them, placing the tallest growing sorts in 
^as.sc. 
DOUBLE TIGHER LILY-LILIUM TIGRINUM PIENUM. 
the rear, makes one of the most, beautiful 
features of a pleasure garden in its season. 
1 suppose there is a white Persian and a 
white Chinese, because they are noted by 
writers, catalogued by dealers, and I have 
seen them ; but, from every source that I. 
have tried to obtain them, both always came 
out in my grounds with pinlc flowers. 1 
am g&ing to try once more for them, for, al¬ 
though l have been the recipient of errors, I 
believe, and know, such tilings are, and also 
that/ in the foreground of a lilac group they 
arc desirable. 
My Tree Ilotieynuc'lilcs. 
Oti! I wish you could have seen one in 
bloom, which that friend of immunity and 
lover of fruits and flowers, Charles Down¬ 
ing, sent, me a few years since, under name 
of “New Tartarian Honeysuckle.” Jt is 
the earliest of all to bloom, is a profuse bloom¬ 
er, the buds a bright, clear pink; hut when 
the flower is opened the petals are a clear, 
deep pink through the center, with a well 
defined, clear, peachy white margined edge. 
Oh, it’s a beauty, and no garden should be 
without it. I have since had the same from 
Ellwangkk &■ Barry. 
I made a hedge, a few years since, some 
fifty feet long, with the common red or blush- 
flowering tree honeysuckle, and having 
clipped it regularly each year, it is now a 
beauty, with its muss of flowers and green, 
from the ground up, some five feet. I often 
wonder those who can, do not, create more. 
Oi'iinmciitn I IIoiIuoh 
in their grounds; they serve as dividing 
lines better than hoard fences, are less ex¬ 
pensive and far more beautiful. 1 have one 
hedge made of odds and ends as I called it, 
—that is, plants of all sorts, Tree Honey 
Suckles, Weigelas, Foray Hi las, Hpireas, etc., 
all grown from cuttings ; and many ns they 
look at it say, “ Oh ! 1 wish I bad one like 
that l”—a wish which only needs for its 
realization a,little labor and care in the plant¬ 
ing and growing the cuttings, and calmly 
waiting two or three years to see results. 
Among my perennial early flowers nothing 
has perhaps given more daily satisfaction 
than a mass of 
IMilox I’■•<><• ii in In" n* 
with its pink flowers as the center surround¬ 
ed witli the Phlox Irifoliala alba with its deli¬ 
cate foliage and mass of clear white blooms, 
continues nearly a month. Another good 
thing and early in its blooming season 
among hardy perennials is 
liiiiiiiuiii I’lln>lireuin Kolia Varleentn, 
whose purple-pink spikes of flowers, about 
six inches from the ground, with their pe¬ 
culiar variegated flowers, have caused every 
visitor to note it. I believe there is a white 
flowering one of this, and another year I 
hope to have it. 
Tlii> Spiri'a Folia. Vnvioanta 
is perhaps the best of all the distinct, marked 
hardy foliage plants. Its great beauty is in 
its foliage, which is a clean, rich, dark, 
glossy green with a pale bright yellow mark¬ 
ing through the center. No one sees it but 
wants of it, (I have no plants for sale,) nor 
do I ever cut a bunch of flowers, but I aiu 
importuned for a few leaves of “ that charm¬ 
ing, colored-leaved spirea.”— Frank Amon. 
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NOTES FOR FLORISTS. 
Uooil Seed. 
I. W. Sanborn writes :—“ I think your 
fair Fairfield correspondent’s experience 
might be comprehended by more than one 
amateur in floriculture. I have found, by 
well-bought experience, that it pays —that's 
the Yankee word — to patronize reliable 
florists and dealers; for a person is usually 
satisfied if he gets what he bargains for. The 
best is none too good; this is emphatically 
t rue with reference to seeds, whether for the 
field, kitchen or flower garden.” 
IlmminK Flowin' rtiiMkrt*. 
A very handsome hanging basket is made 
of the dried burrs of the Sweet Ginn tree 
NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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