CURRENT NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
As was stated in our premium announcements, the 
ever-blooming Roses are tender varieties, and therefore 
would not be sent until the weather had become suffi¬ 
ciently warm to permit transportation in safety, yet we 
have had numerous inquiries, because they failed to 
appear with the first copy of the magazine received. 
We have now instructed the firm from which we pro¬ 
cure the Roses to mail all orders received to date, and 
trust that the plants will reach their destinations safely 
aud prove valued acquisitions to the thousands of 
flower-gardens to which they go. 
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Mr. J. A. De Veer, American agent for Anton Roozen 
& Son, of Holland, wishes us to correct a false impres¬ 
sion created by our announcement of December last 
regarding their importations to this country of bulbs, 
by saying that the price named in their catalogues in¬ 
cludes the duties as well as transportation and all other 
expenses as far as New York. 
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Our friend Stiles, of the Philadelphia Weekly Press, 
is an ardent lover of hardy herbaceous plants in general, 
and of those indigenous to our own country in particu¬ 
lar. In the last issue of that paper he says of spring 
flowers: 
“ Beneath the window where these words are written 
a sheet of snowy bloom spreads away from a shrub 
border into the tender green of the lawn. So dazzling 
white are these early flowers that almost every passer¬ 
by stops to take a second look, and if he inquires what 
the plant may be, he is told that it is Bloodroot—one of 
our own native wild flowers; and this is only one of 
many which are easily domesticated. The delicate little 
Houstonia, or Bluets, Columbine, the Trilliums, Dog¬ 
tooth Violets, Squirrel Corn, Bellwort, Globe-flowers, 
Bird’s-foot Violet, Spring Beauty and many more ought 
now to be in flower, or ready to bloom. They are all 
hardy perennials, and once established can be left to 
themselves to reappear with every opening year, just 
when flowers are most grateful to the eye. 
“ Of course, no one will be satisfied with these alone. 
The Tulips, Hyacinths and Daffodils are at their best 
now, and these, with Star-flowers (triteleia), Scillas, 
Grape-hyacinths, Spring Snowflakes, Fritillarias, the 
rarer varieties of Erythronium, Corydalis, Meadow 
Saffron and the beautiful blue Chionodoxa or Glory of 
the Snow, from Asia Minor, will give a variety of early 
flowering bulbs. 
‘ 1 The herbaceous perennials which bloom with the 
first genial weather form a most numerous and inter¬ 
esting class. Every region of the temperate zone has 
contributed its share to the collection now available. 
Here is a short list of those that are the best known: 
Spring Adonis, the Pasque-flower of Southern Europe 
with other Anemones, Daphne Cneorum, Apache Plume 
(Geum) from the Rocky Mountains; the Epimediums, 
hardy Candy-tuft, three good varieties, Virginia Lung¬ 
wort, Moss-pink, Rock Cress, early Cinquefoil, the 
Saxifrages and Violets. Some of these, like the Tril¬ 
liums, do well to be partially shaded in the summe 
and a few plants of each in an out-of-the-way corner of 
the lawn, along the garden wall, among the shrubbery 
or on the sunny side of the house, will give a new de¬ 
light to the most delightful season of the year.” 
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The April meeting of the New York Horticultural 
Society was not so interesting as all who attended the 
corresponding meeting last year were led to expect. 
Yet the display was by no means poor—although poorly 
arranged. Mr. Such’s Orchids were good, as were Mr. 
John Henderson’s Roses and Lilacs, yet there was no¬ 
thing particularly new in either. Mr. Barr’s exhibit of 
Calceolarias and Cinerarias, was very fair, and would 
have been splendid, had not an unkind frost injured 
the plants, in transit, as it did many other things on 
exhibition. 
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The history of the cut-flower trade in New York does 
not show such a demand for all kinds of flowers as there 
was on Easter week just past; nor did prices for the 
more common flowers ever before rule so high, al¬ 
though the hybrid Roses did not bring as high prices as 
on former occasions. Easter Sunday is now the great 
flower-day of the season. In many of the churches tho 
decorations are truly magnificent, and the memorial 
pieces are gotten up as richly and beautifully as it is 
possible to arrange flowers. Some idea of the extent of 
the Easter trade may be had from the fact that one 
grower alone sold from his greenhouses, at wholesale 
$1,700 worth, and could not supply half the demand. 
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Among the plants specially noticed in the Gardener's 
Magazine, is the Ampelopsis sempervirens. This must 
be a valuable acquisition, but we doubt if it will prove 
“evergreen” in our climate. Not because of the cold, 
but, for our bright sunshine when the thermometer 
indicates from 40 deg. to 50 deg. of frost. 
‘ ‘ Those who have walls or fences to cover should 
make a note qf the Evergreen Ampelopsis which as 
yet is but little known, for unlike other of the species 
it is attractive during the winter as well as at other 
seasons of the year. The leaves are rather small and 
rich in color; the habit is similar to that of the well- 
known A. Veitchi and the slender shoots attach them¬ 
selves very firmly to the fence or wall, against which 
the plants are growing. Ampelopsis sempervirens does 
not supersede any of the other kinds, but it is equally 
as deserving of cultivation as the best of them.” 
Catalogues received. 
John G. Burrow, Fishkill Village, N. Y. —Hlustrated 
Catalogue and Price-list of Grape Vines, Small-fruits, 
&c., &c. 
E. J. Markey, Fort Wayne, Ind.—Annual Spring 
Catalogue of new, rare, and beautiful plants. 
C. R. Gallup, Denver, Colorado.—Annual Catalogue 
of Greenhouse and Bedding Plants, Small-fruit Plants, 
&c. &c. 
