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period not to exceed twenty-four hours, that during 
midwinter plants suffer more than in climates much 
colder but where the ground is covered with snow the 
entire winter. In such climates and localities, plants 
that will not endure a moderately mild climate are per¬ 
fectly hardy. Why ? Simply because they have a natu¬ 
ral, consequently the best possible, protection against 
frost—snow. 
It is a mistake to suppose that a plant that is perfectly 
hardy in Maine will prove so in Washington, a mistake 
that has been the means of many a gardener’s loss of 
valuable plants. The best means of protection to all 
classes of herbaceous plants is to cover them, say six 
inches in depth, with newly fallen leaves; this covering 
should be put on after the ground has been slightly 
frozen, as the protection is more important to keep the 
plants from thawing out than from freezing up. A light 
frame put around tender Roses and other shrubs, and 
filled with dead leaves is the best protection that can. 
be afforded them, and this should not be taken off too 
early in the sjaring, not until the buds start and the frost 
is out of the surrounding ground. Then it is better 
to protect the plants for a few days against the 
sun’s influence. 
NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
November 
The unusually heavy rain prevented anything like a 
good attendance of the members and their friends, be¬ 
sides preventing the exhibitors from making many 
entries of choice flowers, which would have been made 
under more favorable circumstances. Notwithstanding 
the storm, the display of Dahlias and Gladiolus was 
remarkably fine. Messrs. I-Iallock, Son & Thorpe, of 
Queens, N. Y., made one of the best exhibits of Dahlias 
we have ever seen, taking the first premium for the 
finest general display, the best collection of named 
varieties, and for the best twelve, and the best six 
varieties. Tlios. Tait, Esq., of Staten Island, was an 
.able competitor in all the classes, some of his flowers 
were remarkably fine. In Gladiolus, the only compet¬ 
itors were C. L. Allen & Co., of Garden City, and 
Messrs. Hallock, Son & Thorpe, of Queens, Long Island; 
the former carrying off all the first prizes, the reverse 
of the previous month’s exhibition. In Messrs. Allen’s 
collection were several new seedlings of great merit. 
Among them were Adelaide Neilson, a large and well- 
arranged spike of delicate pink flowers, with the edges 
of the petals feathered with darker pink, with a heavy 
blotch of crimson on the lower division. John Adams 
was the name given to a long spike of bright pink 
flowers, with a heavy white line through each petal. 
Emerson somewhat resembled Princess Mary of Cam¬ 
bridge, but is a longer spike, and the flowers have more 
substance; color pure wliite with a heavy carmine 
blotch on the lower petals. Marguerita is a pleasing 
Meeting. 
variety; color, ivory-white with a sulphur blotch on the 
lower divisions, and the edges of the petals delicately 
tinted with pink, an entirely new combination of colors. 
John Gilbert's name is honored by an exceedingly- 
handsome variety. The spike is long, the flowers of 
medium size, and well arranged, the petals are well 
rounded, and nearly alike as to size, giving the flower 
a Lily-like appearance; color, vermillion shaded with 
rose-pink, with a dark, heavy blotch on the lower divi¬ 
sions. The great attraction of the new varieties, and 
the ones that received the Society’s Certificate of Merit, 
was named Margaret Newton; it was an immense spike 
of bright, salmon-pink flowers, shaded at the edge6 of 
the petals with darker tints. There were thirteen flow¬ 
ers open, the lower ones four inches across. 
Among the other novelties exhibited was the new 
Tea Rose, Sunset, exhibited by Peter Henderson & Co. 
This plant originated on their grounds, and is a sport 
from Porle des Jardin, and is identical with the parent 
in habit, form and size. In color, however, it is quite 
different, being a mixture of saffron and orange, simi¬ 
lar, but darker than the well-known Saffrano, and the 
foliage is nearly blood-red—which is, in a measure, 
owing to rapid growth, and strong constitution. This 
Rose must become very popular. At the business meet¬ 
ing an able paper on window-gardening was read by 
Peter Henderson, Esq. As this subject is one of so 
much interest to our readers, we give the paper 
entire, in the present number of the Cabinet. 
THE ACROCLINUM. 
Acuoclinum roseum and its varieties form, when 
taken together, a very valuable and interesting group 
of plants well adapted for the decoration of the flower 
border during the summer season, while their flowers, if 
gathered at the proper time, and carefully dried, will 
be found to be of great value in the formation of 
wreaths, bouquots, etc., of everlasting flowers during 
tho winter season. 
The Acroclinum is a plant of comparatively recent 
introduction from southern and western Australia, 
and is a half-hardy annual, of erect, robust growth, at¬ 
taining a height of from one-and-a-half to two feet in 
height, producing its daisy-like flowers in profusion 
from July to September, according to the time the 
plants have been started into growth. It belongs to the 
Natural Order Compositse. 
The Acroclinum is one of the most valuable of the 
class known as Everlastings, and is extensively grown 
for its flowers, which are much used for winter floral 
work. For this purpose the blossoms should be gathered 
