the CUMBING SOLAHOT. 
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Liirt Bpnns I •'"7”* „ „llple««a 
elimljing Solamim and ^^ers of The 
wia It tft I w„t t. »i a. 
Amebicah Gaeden- about it. «is 
growing vino haidng pretty foliag • 
forts iLif by curling the 
fts leaves are attached, about 
comes in contact with, during smnme my 
plant made a growth of over six feet. It ^d 
lot bloom until fall, but since then it has 
had flowers nearly all the time, 
flowers are about as large as thos 
Catalonian Jasmine, star-shape , an o 
pearly white. Sometimes they h.ave a slig 
lavender tinge, and in a few I have seen a 
faint rosy tint. These flowers, which ai-o 
borne in clusters of about half a dozen each, 
have'a delicate grace that I have never seen in 
any other climbing flower. The petals have 
a look like that of the finest crape, being 
creased or wrinkled like crape along the 
center. I find that by cutting it back often 
a great many branches can be made to grow, 
and all of these produce flowers. 
It has been one of my most satisfactory 
plants during the winter. I have it trained 
up a large Oleander, and it has wound itself 
all through the top, and as both plants are 
in bloom at present, the effect is charming, 
as the contrast between the rosy flowers of 
the Oleander and the white ones of the 
Solanum is so decided. A good many of the 
new branches hang from the branches of the 
Oleander in festoons of graceful foliage. 
The buds are charming before they open, 
being pearly white, and having so close a 
resemblance to berries that they are often 
mistaken for them. The plant is a most 
satisfactory one at all stages and seasons. 
It would be very effective when trained 
along conservatory rafters, or about a win¬ 
dow, I think. Mine is potted in ordinary 
garden soil made light with sand. It requires 
considerable water. The red spider would 
trouble it somewhat if I did not make it too 
wet for him. 
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Tn loam and f'eely 
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require a . obtained by mov^n» 
growth. This rest ^0 and, 
fhe plants to a 1 nevei 
as they are oause the leaves to 
to withlield so far as ^tand a 
suffer. In ',",/such plants throw 
time in the teing placed in gentle 
up strong spikes 
heat again. alternate growing 
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THE AMAZON LILY. 
(Eucharis Amazonica.) 
Of all the white flowers exhibited at our 
Sower shows, none attract more general and 
ieserved attention than this comparatively 
aew plant. It is a native of Granada, belongs 
to the Amaryllis family, and requires, for 
winter forcing at least, hot-house treatment. 
The flowers, which are produced in trusses 
of from four to eight, are of rare beauty, 
chaste in fom, pure white and deliciously 
fra^ant, and—what gives additional value 
to the plant—may bo produced at any sc-i 
son of the year. In fact, a dozen of plants 
properly managed will furnish flowers all the 
year round. 
There are two ways of growing this plant. 
One, says a writer in Gardening niustrated 
.s to pot them without division^heCfn 
which largo specimens are obtained • and tb„ 
other is to divide frequently, groovin'? e 
largo bulbs in single pots. The latter plan 
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W}'s»lways cowii'E 
and if a little crushed charcoal and sand be 
3 that in' autumn 
1)0 attended with little loss. 
The result has been more 
I anticipated; the clay pots, m 
stances, have remained entii-e, but ft*** 
have pushed through the bottom, and* 
tjje rims, and the plants came up • ® 
compact ball, very different from ® 
turned completely out of the potg 
have sent down long roots, half of which 
;iad to lose on removal. I have had soa 
these pots preserved with the plants in tt 
as they were taken up, and I am persn^j® 
the contrivance will be of considerable vai 
to amateur horticulturists. 
EMBELLISHING A "WINDOW. 
The following excellent plan for decorating 
a window is given by Mr. John G. Barker; 
“Procm-e a pan twelve or more inches in 
diameter and six inches deep; place in the 
center a seven or eight inch pot, then place 
liroper drainage and soil in the pan, and 
plant Lycopodium denticulaktm, or any of tie 
varieties of Tradescantia, which will cover 
the surface and hang over the sides. In the 
pot in the center put a Dracsena, Palm, or 
any plant which suits your fancy, and place 
the whole in a stand just large enough to hold 
it and set opposite the window, and with one 
or two brackets, on each side of the window 
for such plants as you may choose, yon have 
a decorated window with very little trouble. 
A few cut flowers may he placed in the pan, 
and will last a long time. The vines will 
completely hide both pot and pan, and the 
center plant can he changed whenever de¬ 
sired without breaking up the arrangement. 
If more than one is used in a room they 
should not he alike.’' 
Such an arrangement requires hut little 
care, yet, as in the cultivation of all house 
plants, the great aid to success is enthusiasm 
in the work. 
THE AMAZON LILY, 
mixed with the soil, to increase its porosity, 
it will be an advantage. Clear soot water 
should be given occasionally when growing 
freely or blooming. 
HOME-MADE PLO"WEIl POTS, 
A correspondent of the London 
-- ....u j^unaun Garden, 
having observed that a mixture of clay and 
cow manure with a little sand bocomos vorv 
hard when dried, conceived the idea to mold 
flower pots out of this material, llo first 
molded thorn in ordinary flower pots, but, on 
aceonnt of thoir breaking so easily suhsi" 
a °r£, V. t’r .... 
I had tho satisfaction, says tlio writer nl’ 
«oeing Ulo planfcB do woll in fchoiv i ^ 
H^andtilopotsboro:;lov 
May they wore plunged in o t ^ 
bods with thoplants and T 1 ? 
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COMPAHATIVE HAKDINESS OF PLANTS. 
On the morning of the great freeze, last 
winter, writes a correspondent from Ten 
nessee, tho thermometer stood 8 ° below zero 
outdoors, and 34<^ above in the warmest par 
of tho greenhouse. But further from ^ 
tank no thermometer was necessary to m 
cate tho frost; all the Coleus were ” 
tho Begonias, my Hoya carnosa, toge ^ 
with my other tender plants, while ®P® 
mills, Mavanta zehriua, 
Goraniums, Boivardias, Azaleas, Came 
etc., wore all right. .. 
TradescanUa diacolor was Idlled, " .jj. 
cchrina, in tho same basket, remaine 
jurod. 
IMPORTANCE OF DRAINAGE. 
Tho 1-lon. MaiLshall P. Wilder, 
eultivatod lioiiso p'ants’Tov the P>* 
yours, considers porfoct drainage)^ 
in pots or tho open ilelds, tho ^ 
succossful cultivation. He places i 
tho crocks used for drainage in po 
Toots piorco into it. If tho sm’P “ 
does not pass off, tho soil will jjjjld 
tho roots rot, and the x„){en 
woalhor honso plants should fres'* 
on tho piazza in shade, to have a 
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