1886 . 
move all blossoms us soon 
thb 
'IS thuy boglill to 
a^brican 
fade. It seed had been allowed to Z... 
crop of fUnvers would have been scai i v 
Considering: the little oare 
the result In (lowers, 1 have no hisitmivT' 
saying that there is no more sat ! ? 
plant for the house. Other plants wh’iSm inti 1 
quire more care '»ay bo more desirable I m ' 
tlic lover of (lowers who has but little ’tbl 
to give them will Ihid the Petunia just tlm 
thing to make ‘be window gay, and surely 
everyone oau have a Petunia. ^ 
15. K. 11kxi.’oiid. 
THE LITTLE &EM FEVERFEW. 
The Feverfews of our gardens are amon- 
Ute most valuable plants in tbe formation of 
ribbon bods, espeeially the “Golden Fea¬ 
ther” with its bright golden yellow foliage. 
Wien used for this purpose tbe (lower-buds 
have to bo scrupulously removed; grown in 
pots the Feverfews are held in high esteem 
for cut (lowers, during autumn 
and winter. 
The variety “Little Gem,” 
shown in our illustration, is a 
specialty with Peter Henderson 
and is a great improvement over 
the old, straggling forms, for cut 
flowers. It is veiy dwarf, growing 
not over 12 to 18 inches in height, 
and produces larger and more 
perfect (lowers of pure white. 
garden. 
ture of 
216 
ni, . 1 . . , ^should be reg- 
eomo^m'i ^Z they be- 
s an inportant matter and should have 
ompt attention, as If they once get a cheek 
a their growth at this eai’ly stage it will 
take them a long while to reeovci-. 
Syringing Is done once a day to keep down 
the red spidei-. Ifundg.ate, by burningTobacco 
stems twice a weidc, to keep down aphis or 
green (ly. with tins attention plants which 
wei'c put in as cuttings at the season named 
above ought to be two feet high by .July, with 
roots enough to (ill a six-inch pot; it intended 
to be grown on continuously in jjots a shift 
into an eight-inch pot will be required by 
the (irst of October to flower them in; if in¬ 
tended to bo planted out on benclies or solid 
beds of soil, this sliould be done about tlie 
middle of August. 
Some people go to a good deal of trouble 
ROSES FOE WINTER, 
Notwithstanding that winter¬ 
forcing of Roses is, b^y all pro¬ 
fessional growers, considered 
over-done, new Rose houses are 
constantly being erected, and per¬ 
sons who had no previous experi¬ 
ence are embarking in the busi¬ 
ness with the expectation of 
realizing large profits. Much as 
it is to be desired that the culti¬ 
vation of flowers of all kinds 
should increase, we cannot advise x 
anyone to invest much money in 
a business with which he is not 
thoroughly and practically fa¬ 
miliar. • In a recent number of 
the Germantown Telegraph a 
skillful practical Rose-grower 
gives his views and methods in so 
concise a manner that they are 
worthy the careful consideration of tiose 
intending to force Roses. „ r 
Many people think, he writes, a 
have to do is to put up a greenhouse, s 
the plants in the ground and they ^ o 
on all right and th.at there was a *0* *^“”® ' 
It is not done quite so easy as all t 'a . 
authors have written ^Imle books ^ 
subject. But it will be impossible 
Write a long sermon liere as 
admit; so I will endeavor to give a J ‘ 
tical hints in as brief a manner as possible, 
and sum it aU up in a healthy 
To begin with propagation, S ^ 
nuttings should be put m any 
September to January, in jhe 
over a temperature of ® It will 
temperature of the house lo 
take from 20 to 25 days to roo .j^.a-half 
They are then potted off iu ''' 
inch pots in tlu-ee parts good, i ^ ^ejnpera- 
one of sand, and then placed m ‘ 
THE GOLDEN GEM FEVERFEW. 
making prepared beds for them, but I con¬ 
sider tliis all unnecessary and labor m vain. 
I have seen quite as good Roses ^ 
bed made of the natm-al soil, especially if the 
ffi-omid is rather stiff, whicli seems to suit 
fliein The bed should be dug about 1 o inches 
deep, with four or live inches of good,rotmn 
S dung turned in, and during tlieir active 
season of growth they were mulched v itli 
h ee or four inches of the same material. 
Roses when grown under glass, are some- 
ntZl-cd with mildew. To prevent 
nf sulphur and lime made of 
berequiieda of the fli-st import- 
SriuU««>m«oxi»rtoc. to B.o» 
to completely saturate the soil, and then 
about every two weeks after, during the 
months of Juiie and July, they should be al¬ 
lowed to dry oir sufficiently' to lose their 
leaves, and then pruned and started into 
growtli gradually at first, for the next season. 
To grow Roses succes.sfully it is very nec¬ 
essary that the liouscs .should be especially 
constructed for them; no halfway business 
will do. Houses should face the south, with 
the beds down the center, an 18-inch walk each 
side, with three-foot wide benches on each 
side, made to hold six or eight inches of soil. 
Some people try to grow Roses in houses 
heated with flues; that turned out a failure 
long ago. Some try to grow them in homscs 
with a mixture of green plants; this may do 
to a certain extent if the house is heated with 
hot water, but it will not lie a success. 
'I'he favorite Tea Roses now gi'oini for 
winter are Perie des Jardins (yellow); 
Niphetos (white) ; Catharine Mermet (rose) ; 
Bon Silene (carmine); Duke of 
Connaught (crimson), and the 
latest introduction from England, 
the William Francis Bennett, a 
crimson-scarlet hybrid Tea Rose. 
NEW ZEALAND FLAX. 
One of the most beautiful or¬ 
namental-leaved tropical plants 
of our hot-houses, and used on 
lavTis, is the Fhormium tenax, var. 
variegala, or New Zealand Flax; 
it is rarel}’’ known to bloom in 
cultivation. A specimen, how¬ 
ever, in the collection of a gen¬ 
tleman oivning fine grounds at 
Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J., 
has during the summer thrown 
up a number of fiower spikes to 
the height of ten feet. The blos¬ 
soms are orange color, and shaped 
something like the Gladiolus, hun¬ 
dreds of them being borne on one 
plant. 
FUNERAL DESI&NS. 
Dui'ing the time when Garden 
Lilies were at the height of their 
beauty, superb funeral designs 
were made of these and white 
Sweet Pea blossoms. A very 
handsome and novel piece called 
the “Broken Link,” has been 
fashioned by a Broadway fiorist for a floral 
expression of sorrow. Three links of a 
chain, the center one being broken, are 
made, each of a different flower. These are 
placed on .an e.asel of Lycopodium. 
At the funeral of an infant, lately, the 
little casket, which w.as white, was sm-- 
rounded by tall D.aisy plants, the flowers of 
winch rose in masses around the child, who 
seemed sleeping among them. 
OUR WINDOW BOX. 
Heliotropes should he established in pots 
before September. 
Lift and pot Lihonias and Seriographis, 
and otherwise treat like Bouvardias. 
Don’t wait till other folks have picked out 
and bought all the finest Hyacinths, Tulips, 
and Narcissuses before you get some. Pot 
some Dutch Bulbs now, and the remainder 
next month. 
