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raised, for Mr. Bull's traveler informed me that Mr. Bull has been successful in raising some upon one occasion.

Let me conclude by making a remark about Adiantum farleyense. I possess four plants of it, one a very fine specimen is 4 feet in diameter, yet I have never seen a fertile frond, and Mr. Williams, of Holloway, when calling upon me a few weeks ago, said that his experience was the same.-Cottage Garden.

EPIPHYLLUMS.-These beautiful flowers are much grown and well understood by all practical men, but there are many young gardeners and amateurs to whom a few words of advice may be of service. Epiphyllums are easily propagated by cuttings taken off at a joint and planted in light sandy soil in well-drained pots, and placed in a warm house, and the soil kept rather dry until they have roots. They should not be exposed at this stage to brilliant sunshine during the middle of the day, but a few hours' exposure to the sun each day is better than keeping them constantly shaded. They may be wintered in a warm greenhouse if kept moderately dry at the roots, but they make a better and an earlier growth when wintered in a temperature not less than 50° at night, and 55° to 60° by

day.

It should be remembered that they are at all times impatient of too much moisture at the root, and that they like a free open soil. For established plants there is nothing better than turfy loam leaf-soil, peat, and very coarse sand in equal parts. They do not require overmuch pot-room: a shift into a pot two inches larger once in two years, if well drained, will suffice to keep them growing and in good health.

Those who have the forcing houses at work, or the convenience of a stove, should shift their stock if required, and then give them the aid of more heat than they would enjoy in a common greenhouse. Water sparingly until there are signs of their commencing to make new growth. After they are fairly started let them have more water and air. By the beginning of June any house will suit them, provided it is airy, and not

shaded.

They will well repay the cultivator for a little extra care in the spring, as they make an earlier growth with the assistance of a little extra warmth at that season. This gives them more time to make and mature their growth, and larger and more blooms is the result.

There are different methods of growing them. Some prefer them on their own roots, while others like to have them on stems a foot or more in height. They are easily grafted upon any of the larger-growing cacti, so that the stem may be had of any height desired. For my own part, I like to have them on their own roots and grafted on tall stocks, as a greater variety of form is obtained. Specimens on stems about 12 inches in height, in a 6-inch pot, are admirable subjects for dinner-table and indoor decoration, as also are dwarf plants on their own roots for filling vases.

I have not named any variety to be grown, for the reason that they are so beautiful that I am not acquainted with any one variety that is not worth growing. If I have a preference, it is for E. truncatum albescens, E. truncatum cruentum, and E. truncatum violaceum.—R. P. B., Gardener's Magazine.

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THE BLUE AFRICAN LILY (Agapanthus umbellatus).—This is one of the most beautiful and useful of the Lily tribe, and one which, though commonly considered to be a greenhouse plant, air. There is a white and also a variegated will succeed well in a south aspect in the open variety of it toe, both of which are well worth attention. I, however, find the blue kind the most useful, as it remains so long in bloom, especially when set in a partially shaded situation, or just screened from the parching rays of a bright sun. Like the Scarborough Lily (Vallota purpurea), it is very suitable for placing in a porch or balcony, as well as for conservatory decoration. All the varieties of this Lily flower when well grown in a mixture of equal parts leaf-mould and rich fibrous loam, to which may be added one part limc-rubbish mixed equally with sand. They are easily multiplied by division of the roots, after which they require to be set in a shady situation until they make fresh roots and growth. When established they will bear more exposure to light. I have grown the ordinary blue Agapanthus for fourteen years, and have found it to be a most valuable autumnal flowering plant both in and out of doors.-J. Graham, Woodcliff Gardens, Rawdon, near Leeds.

PELARGONIUM MARIE LEMOINE AS A BEDDING PLANT.-I would strongly recommend the above to the notice of flower gardeners for the coming season. I had two large beds of double

pink Pelargoniums last season for trial, each containing about sixty plants of Madame and Marie Lemoine Madame is not worth growing in comparison with Marie-the growth was irregular, and most of the leaves spotted, and the trusses of flowers small, while in Marie the growth was regular, and the foliage handsome, and splendid trusses of bloom, which stood the rain. It is a continuous bloomer (far preferable to Christine as a pink,) and requires liberal treatment. I have been told it is a shy grower, but have not experienced it. —A. Hossack, Ashburnham Place, Battle, in Gardener's Chronicle.

THE MOOR PARK APRICOT.-The Moor Park Apricot is said by some to have been introduced by Lord Anson and planted at Moor Park. By others its introduction is ascribed to Sir Thomas More, who, in the beginning of last century, is also said to have planted it at Moor Park. A third account is that Sir John Temple introduced it. Which of these is correct it is impossible now to determine, but it was not till the close of

the last century that this Apricot attained a general cultivation. It was not in the Brompton Park catalogue before 1784, when it is mentioned under the name of "Temple Apricot." In 1788 is first called "Moor Park." In 1784 it was cultivated in that nursery to the extent of three rows, or about 300 plants; but in 1797 to the extent of thirty-five rows, or 3500 plants. The Moor Park is undoubtedly of French origin; it is either a seminal variety of the Apricot Peche-not the Apricot Peche of Duhamel, which is our White Masculine-but the Apricot Peche of Bretonnerie and Roger Scabol, or is identical with it. Our own opinion is that it is identical with it. It is said to have originated in Piedmont as a seedling from the Alberge. It is not mentioned in the "Jardinier Francais " of 1653, nor in any of the editions of De Quintinye. Switzer speaks of "a very large kind of Apricock that was cultivated at Woolhampton, Berkshire, as big as a Peach, and it is there called the French Apricock."—Journal of Horticulture.

HORTICULTURAL NOTICES.

THE ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTU-
RAL SOCIETY,

FRUIT GROWERS' SOCIETY OF
PENNSYLVANIA.

Will hold its Eighteenth Annual Meeting in This Society will hold its Annual Meeting Champaign, commencing December 9th, at 10 this season at Mechanicsburg, Cumberland o'clock A. M., and continuing four days. The County, on the 21st, 22nd, 23d of June, 1874. reports and discussions will include all depart- The practical details of fruit culture are generalments in the theory and practice of Fruit rais-ly fully discussed, and the meetings usually very ing and Tree growing. Papers upon the follow- fully attended. ing subjects will be read by eminent Scientists Mechanicsburg is on the railroad leading from and Horticulturists, viz: Meterology, Geology Harrisburg to Chambersburg, and very easy of and Soils, Botany and Vegetable Physiology, access. In one of the most successful fruit Entomology and Ornithology, Ornamental and regions of the State, there is no doubt much useTimber Trees, Ornamental and Landscape Gar-ful information will be elicited by the meeting. dening, Vegetable Gardening, Orchard Culture and Vineyard Culture. The citizens of Champaign will extend hospitalities to members and strangers attending the meeting. The Illinois Central Railroad Co. will return members at one-fifth fare. The Indianapolis B. and N. Railroad, will return free.

O. B. GALUSHA,
Sec'y State Horticultural Society,
Morris, Ills.

WORCESTER COUNTY (MASS.) AGRI

CULTURAL SOCIETY.

horticultural department of the Annual ExhibiIn a newspaper before us we note that the tion was a great success. We note with pleasure among the most successful exhibitors, Mr. Geo. Cruikshanks, one of our best gardeners, and we are pleased to add, one of the earliest of the subscribers to the Gardener's Monthly.

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INDEX-VOLUME XV.

Absorption of Moisture by
Leaves, 61, 376

Abutilon Boule de Neige, 220
Academy of Natural Sciences
of Phila., 128, 320

Acclimation Society, An, 107
Achyranthus Casei, 29
Acknowledgments, Personal,88
Adams, Dudley W., as a candi-

date for Gov. of Iowa,299
Address by President Hoopes,
The Annual, 63
of Marshall P. Wilder,
202, 325

Adiantum Farleyense and Be-
gonia Sanguinea,360
Formosa, 376

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Adiantums, 296, 338

Advantages of Hot Water over
Steam, 364

Advertisers, Addresses of, 309
African Lily, Blue, Treatment
of the, 331

Age of Trees, Relative, 369
Agricultural Fairs, 311

Papers, New, 92
Society, Worces-
ter, Mass., 378

Alcohol a remedy for the Mealy
Bugs, 200

Alexander Peach, 29

Allen, C. L., The Flower Farm
of, 59

Alternanthira Amabilis, 55
Altheas, Raising, 91
Amaranthus Salicifolius, 30
Amaryllis, Treatment of the,300
Amorican Ferns, 312

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Horticulture, 68, 107
Pomological Society,
31, 85, 192, 221, 318
America, The Problem of, 107
Ampelopsis Dissecta, 55
Andromeda, Origin of the Bo-
tanical Name, 249
Anemone Japonica, 220

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Alba, 142
Angular divergence in the
branches of Plants, 189
Anthurium Scherzerianum,233,
306, 349

Apple, Crittenden, 153
Jonathan, South, 125

Orange, 343

Pike's Fall. 54

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Old, 57

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Pen, 21, 93, 152

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Seed, Old, 148

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Red Hawthornden, 54
Seedless, 53

Smith's Cider, Origin

Stark, 370

44 Trees, Destruction of,

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Baltimore, A Horticultural So-
ciety wanted in, 378
Bankrupt Nurserymen 308
Bartram, Dr. Darlington's Life
of, 68

Beatrice Peach, 218
Beautiful Letter, A, 338
Beautifying of Grounds, The, 61
Bedding Plant, Pelargonium
Marie Lemoine, 377

Bedding Plants, 24
Beech, Knowfield, The, 30
Bee-keeper's Society, The North
American, 94

Bee Plant, Polanisia Purpurea,
311
Bees and Honey in France, 281
Beet, New forms of Ornament-
al, 156

Begonia Coccinea, 308

Intermedia, 157
Sanguinea, 360

Belle Magnifique, Cherry, 276
Berberis Darwinii, 157

Best time to cut Grafts, The,119
Beurre Dubuisson Pear, 244
Bigelow, Dr., 311

Bilbergias, Propagating, 20
Birch, Cut-leaved Weeping, 219
Purple-leaved, A, 57

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Black's Early Peach, The, 28
Bland's Hardy Hybrid Fuch-
sias, 30
Blackberries in California, 373
Blood-Leaved Peach, History
of the, 142
The, 183
Blue African Lily, The, 377
Blunder, A Printer's, 149
Boiler for a Propagating House,

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Boilers, Hot water, 6, 233
Leaky, 249

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Bonne Silene Rose, 120

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Rhododendron Show,223
Botanist, An undevout, 109
Botany, 68

and Gardening, The
Literature of, 109

Bouquets, Ornamental leaves

for, 38

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Cherry, Wild Black, Grafting
the, 21

Chestertown, Md., Climate of,
341

Chilopsis Linearis, 339
Choisia Ternata, 376
Chromo, Our, 365

Cinerarias, Double, 371

Circulation of Hot water, As-

cending, vs. the

Descending Prin-

ciple, 77

Clematises, New, 244

Climate of Chestertown, Md.,341
Climber, A Mexican, 331
Clover in Orchards, 312

Cockscomb, New Japan, 124
Tricolor, New, 154

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Codling Moth, Catching the, 189
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Cold, Extreme, Influence of, on
the Curculio, 13
Weather, The, 89
Coleus, Chameleon, 125
Collinsia corymbosa, 55
Colorado and Kansas, Capabili

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ties of, 85

The Flora of, 126
Compost for Grapery Borders,

Suitable, 41
Concord Grape going back-

wards, 368

Coniferæ, On numerical order

in the branching of
some, 333

Connecticut State Board Ag.,

6th Annual Report
of, 342

Conservatory, Greenhouse and,

21

Cope, Alfred, 69

Cope's, Mr., Arboretum, 69
Correspondents, To, 21
Cotton, Singular variety of, 59
Covering, Grape, 6

Crab Apple, The Soulard, 218
Crawford and Sterling Straw-
berries, The, 218

Crittenden Apple, The, 153
Crocus Scharajani, 55
Cross Fertilization, 173 216

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Hybridiza-

tion and,302

on Seed, Im-
mediate Ef-

fects of, 104

Cryptogamic Plants in the Re-

gion of the Yel-
lowstone, 149

Cucumber, Improved 144
Cultivating Double English

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Primroses, 275
Fruit Trees, 311
Orchards, 91

Cultivation of the Fuchsia, 204

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Datura Arbores,
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Culture, Fruit, 166

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of Ferns, The, 286

of Fruit Trees, 310

Orchard, 140


Soil, 305

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Tree, 38

Curculio and the Pea Beetle,

The, 111

Influence of extrem

cold on the, 130

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