,-, -' ' . " .d :' . 4 . '' I . :, ".. PEBKWABT i4, 1887.]: THE? FLORIDA DISPATCH. p- 161 ,,.. -. d i inches under ground, in this way :you box or tub of earth on the piazza, They will then produce from thirty to floriculture : will not he seriously troubled with where they can be protected from the forty flowers and upwards. They are I suckers. noonday snu. The box or tub should not inclined to spread, but seem to ... BY W. C. STEELE. I [To be Continued.] be made of lasting material, in when grow upwards. They begin to bloom .e---- the Portulaccas die in the fall the box the middle of December and last until Hoya Carnosa. with the earth in it can he set aside February. Good suds applied to the The RoseContinued.There (Wax Plant.) till the next season, when new plants roots, greatly helps the growth of the The following description of this will and furnish of but should be thrown remains but one reason why appear a. supply plant, it not budded roses do not come into more plant is from Ourrie's Monthly. The Bowers the next summer. Being on over the foliage.. It does not branch common use. This is so clearly and Bloya is one of the best house plants the piazza, too, it is handy for the freely so care should be taken, whileth ,r"" concisely expressed by P. J. Berck- hat can be found, and deserves! to be cook to water the plants with dish! plant ii young, not to break off any mens, in his catalogue, that I will more generally cultivated} : water. branches, however small.) "ihere are In cultivation several "Dreamland Knoll,"Jan 1887. quote a few lines : "We do not recommend In getting new flowering( plants and ...... of this but the --- species plant, one re- shrubs sometimes finds that what budded roses for general one ferred to is perhaps the most common, R -ses should be cut before they have cultivation, as few persons give these one plants for an orn'invent in time and as good as any of them. It is a fully expanded their petals.If cut becomes nuisance and nuisance proper care, and consequently they interesting plant. The leavesare a a just as the petals begin to unfold, andif : very that is not abated. F have bring disappointment therefore( easily a ; we oval, about two inches Jung, and put away in some dark, cool place here called the Flower advise none but careful amateurs to plant "Spider , be fresh for week.It . they kept a thick and The star-like may are fleshy. which here before I. and will order this clas of plants. Th ) main was was flowers in is important to know this, as substance resembling wax very be here after I dead and for- objection to budded roses by long) am many are borne in clusters or umbels, and, frequently on certain occasions a large is account of the suckers gotten. Its roots are supposed to persons they go number of buds wanted and are by on plant several old years are sometimes throw out ; this is partially very down to \water, and go, and keep go- cutting these off the plant at the stage freely The is produced. plant quite in horizontal direction. At avoided if they are. planted sufficiently ing a any mentioned be saved It is they may every easily managed. propagated by I have done deal of deep to place the junction of (the bud rate a good patient for week before the day a day theyare cuttings of the branches those of theprevious with the stock from two to three inches ; digging! on and off, and I never saw needed () year's growth. the best to thereby securing perhapsa are the end of It sometimes below the surface of the soil. Thereis a root yet. number that otherwise would take When large cuttings from. practicable) a growing demand for budde roses grows ten or twelve feet high and has to give them :i slight bottom heat spoil. . they from persons who appreciate their very pretty col-u rtd: berries on the top : value,especially for, exhibition flowers, will root sooner and more certain, than ali winter. M. CUEdE RO. Economy. when where placed they must as sorts do not attain full neces- Mandarin, Fla., Jan.25,1887.Imantophyllum . many per- sarily remain cold.O As-soon as rooted Some one said in my hearing, the fection when grown upon their own them into small --e. other day, that owing to freezes retro- pot pots, Using light, roots. The last sentence gives a sanity loam ; drain the pot well. This Miniatum. spective and in view, we ought to econ- very good reason why budded roses plant usually succeeds best when This is a plant not very well known, omize. I felt like ]laughing-in a should be more commonly grown. in but fine I think, as 1 have never seen it in any mourful way. Economize Why I grown a pot, some very When increased vigor of growth and specimens have been grown planted other collection than my own. It resembles have half soled my brogans, and my greater profusion of flowers i is addedto in the open border. There is now in the Agapanthus very much in wife half-soled my pants for the past ther size and richer coloring of the the conservatory at Forest: Home Cemetery its habit of grow h and its foliage, so year, and the mule has lived on crab- blossoms, the light amount of extra a very fine specimen which was much so that until my plant bloomed, grass hay 'till he looks like a basi- care and labor necessary to producethe planted in a bed about four years ago. I had an idea that the two were iden drum set upon four snare drum sticks. change is amply rewarded. There It previous to that in tical. But when the buds appeared, The chickens have scratched their toes was growing a is an old saying that "there" is no ex- large pot, and had attained a considerable I saw that there wa a difference. The off, and the dugs have hunted bones cellence without labor, this H true in size. It is now trained( closelyon Ag'ipanthus bears its flowers on a tall 'till they have forgotten how to hunt every human understanding. Those the back of the conservatory, and stalk, while the Imantophyllum has a anything else. Perhaps the best wayto who are not willing to devote the time covers an area of about one hundred stalk more like that of the Valotta economize will be to raise more and labor to the care of their roses feet and continues whose flowers its own resemble in shapeso things to consume at home and stop square grow rap that is required to grow them when idly ;awl annually produces hundredsof much that one would say they were trying to raise oranges, which, if not budded on vigorous stalks, do 110tdesEn.e its t waxy umbels of bright little produced from MHIIC variety of that frozen put t us to the trouble of sendingup to have any success. stars. In small conservatories or in plant, but they are not alike in color, north to he frozen on a side track The Manetti rove and the dog rose, the living room, it makes an attractive those of Imantophyllum being a rich with the mercury 20 degrees below Rosa canina, are the varieties gener- object when trained on wire frames shade of orange red. From three to zero, and I no one to blame ; stop rais- ally used for stock by nurserymen and made in the form of balloons, fans, seven flowers are borne in each clus- ing vegetables. to fatten transportationc florists. It has been reported lately crosses, etc." ter, and they last for several days. impaiiies and raise corn to fatten our that seedlings of the Polantha roses The foliage is a rich green, and is own hogs, and perhaps it would be are being grown and used quite ex- produced quite profusely from thick, economy to let the oranges say on the Something About Flowers. tensively for this purpose in France.Mr. fleshy r.ots which require a good deal trees until either they rot or some one Berckmans says that, of the first Editor Floriculture: of room. It is evergreen in character, zhat wants them comes along to buy two mentioned, the Manetti seems to Years ago when Florida was a new and the plant set ins to he one of those them. Aanob Server in Leesburg be best to the Southern cli- home to I used time adapted me to spend some which keep on growing the year Commercial. mate. Some of the strong growing, and money every spring t for< flower round, being in this respect like the .. . ever-blooming Noissette and the seeds;:!, and in planting, transplanting, Agapanthus. It has never failed to Hedges and Fences.-The Macart climbing tea roses would make excel- and cultivating them. One kind after bloom each year in March. I prize it ney rose is evidently coming hedge lent stocks, with the advantage that if another was abandoned, until I have highly, and I cannot: understand whyit plant. The Osage is not equal to it, a sucker from the stock should he only three or four left. Of these the is not grown more. It is quite as even if it can be made to produce a overlooked and allowed to grow up one that yields the most enjoyment to attractive as many: of the varieties of good hedge, because, being deciduous, the blossoms on that shoot might be sight and smell, of color and perfumeis the Amaryllis, and much more easily it stands with bare stems and naked nearly or quite as good as those from Phlox Drummoudi. Its self sown grown. Indeed, my plant gets no branches all winter, and is then any- the bud. We have had good growthand plants come up thickly at nearly all more care than a Geranium, and doesas thing but ornamental ; while the rose, bloom from buds put into the times of the year, and in April and well as I could wish to have it. 1 It being evergreen, is always a pleasant Washington which is a semi climbing May the countless blooms are a perfect liko a good of deal water and plenty of object to look upon.I . Noissette that is seldom out of bloom.A blaze of all colors: nearly and room fur its large roots.-Vick's Maga think that there must be a misprint - variety of Multiflora, which is shades of colors. zine. in Mr. Chesebro's directions, and commonly cultivated by the natives in Another flowering plant that coes --- ..- -" that he intended I that the young hedge this State, is one of the most vigorous later! and last longer is the Petunia.It "The Camelia. should be set a few inches below the growers we have ever seen and would is but a few moments work to set a The Camelia is a wax-like odorless level of the ground, not a few feet, as make an excellent stock for climbing few of these plants where they are to flower, of great beauty. We have it was printed.I . r roses, especially Marechal Niel. Anyof remain and one has a pretty plant in them in the different colors of red and agree heartily with his suggestion, these varieties may be grown from winter and an abundance of varigatcd white variagated. They do very well that we should have "Local Option"as cuttings. When these are rooted and flowers for two seasons. Zinnias areas here, H> well, that I should think the to fences; also, that our road law growing vigorously, the buds shouldbe tasily: raised as weeds and make a cultivation of them would be profitable needs to be improved. The idea oi inserted as near the surface of the flue display in lat( summer and early' as the flowers can ba sent North taxing every poor laboring man, be- soil as possible. When these budded autumn. where a good price can be obtained. tween the ages of eighteen and forty- bushes are transplanted, cut out care Verbenas are also easily raised and They should be planted in a rather five years, while the millionaire, if he '. .fully all the'natural buds of the stock make a pretty contrast in alternaterows shady place in rich soil. Their growthis happens to be over forty-five, pays below the bud you put in, then,set out with Petunias. not rapid and it requires about nothing, is utterly unjust, and is for- so your bud will be two or three Portulaccas are best grown in a eight years to get a good sized shrub. eign to American ideas.