STAND FOR WINTER PLANTS. 
This stand was placed near our South window, 
where its occupants could drink in the sunshine from 
eight o’clock till one each day, and shine in verdure, 
or bloom to grace our merry days. 
It was a pretty, light stand of wire, painted dark 
green, spanned by a trellis of the same. At each end 
a pot containing German Ivy, as many 
call it, but it is not an Ivy, only its 
leaf has a resemblance to that. It 
is a climbing Senecio (Scandens). 
The vines threw up branches of rich, 
bright-green foliage, in great haste; 
both together running over the curv¬ 
ing trellis, crossing each other’s path, 
then tumbling about the stand, and 
peering around its supports. 
Under the arbor so quickly over¬ 
spread, Daphne Odorata lifted her 
stout, healthy boughs, from whose 
tufts of shining leaves the pearl-like 
florets looked out, with the beauty 
that haunts us in some soulful face, 
filling the air with exquisite fragrance. 
Her companions were a Mrs. Pollock 
Geranium, spreading out her flaunting 
colors for admiration, a blithe little 
Bouvardia, ambitiously building up 
her spire for a Christmas display of 
scarlet and gold, and a Rose Geranium 
whose spicy leaves and modest blos¬ 
soms, like true worth, made slow 
progress, and unwittingly received the 
homage of all hearts. 
An English Ivy, seated within an 
ornamental cover, had a post of honor 
upon the mantel. Long ago it had 
walked deliberately up to the mould¬ 
ing at the edge of the ceiling, then 
come down, to embrace with its un¬ 
folding verdure a large medallion of 
Greenough’s Castor and Pollux. Truly the ancient 
legend of “ Leda’s lovely twins,” so finely portrayed, was 
worthy of such reverent tendance. Annie G. Hale. 
supply, if she will address me in regard to it. Also, 
to Abbie French : Passiflora Ccerulea is a pest with 
me, and grows and blooms profusely, without the 
least care, in poor, clay soil, shooting up everywhere 
and receiving only the rains. It dies to the ground in 
late autumn, and shoots, from the old roots a foot 
under ground, appear towards the last of May, and as 
MISTLETOE, PASSIFLORA, Etc. 
In answer fo Anna H. Storey, in July number of 
the Cabinet, I would say that the American Mistletoe 
(Phoradendron) is plentiful here, and I can send her a 
Stand foe Winter Plants. 
the growth is very rapid, are in bloom by the 1st of 
July. 
I would like to recommend a few good Roses to our 
readers, and first among them is the hybi’id perpetual 
La France. It is thought to be the beginning of a 
new class, or an ever-blooming H. P. I have had 
mine three summers, and so far it has been a constant 
and free bloomer. It is an exquisite peach-bloom color, 
Price 12 Cents. 
with deeper centre, very fragrant, and double; a few 
petals unfold every day, leaving the centre ones folded 
up like a rosy ball, and consequently it remains in 
perfection several days. Victor Verdier and Conqueth 
des Alps, are both fine H. P’s., and constant bloomers. 
But my pets among Roses are the Teas, all of which 
are perfectly hardy here. 
I became very fond, last summer, 
of the large, globular buds of the 
Queen of Portugal and Mme. Mar- 
gotten. The former is a handsome 
copper-color, shaded with rose and 
salmon, with petals of great sub¬ 
stance, and the latter is canary, 
shaded with pink and salmon. La 
Pactoli is a shapely little thing for a 
“ boutonniere,” and is always in 
bloom. All are familiar with the 
carmine, purple, and salmon tints in 
Bon Silene, which forces finely in 
winter. La Duchesse de Brabant is 
a rosy, cup-shaped pink tea, always 
loaded with fragrant buds and blos¬ 
soms. Belle Lyonaise bloomed a 
pure white for me, and looked almost 
unearthly in its pearly beauty. Aline 
Sisley is very handsome, both in bud 
and flower, as it is quite double, and 
displays a rich marbling of crimson- 
purple tints. Marie Duchire and La 
Sylphide, are both a beautiful bronzy 
flesh, handsome in bud and flower, 
and free bloomers. La Gloria de 
Dijon, and Marechal Niel, are too 
well known to mention here, but I 
could go on ad finitum with Mad. 
Triflo, Mad. Bamaizin, Mont Blanc, 
Perle de Lyon ; the old stand-bys, 
Isabella Sprunt and Bella, the mag¬ 
nificent Bougon, the dainty Woodland 
Marguerite, and a host of others just 
as beautiful. 
While speaking of the hydrid perpetuals, I intended 
to mention the new one, said to rival our queenly La 
France, Antoine Verdier, a free-blooming, bright, 
silvery rose, shaded with carmine, said to possess the 
vigor of the Perpetual, the persistent blooming ot the 
Bourbons, and the fragrance of the Teas. 
Mrs. R. S. Trtjslow. 
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