. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. ointed;,during the fall and winter the flowers sold atfifty cents each.—P. Henderson. New Dwarf Sweet Chestnut.—A new orna-mental shrub lately introduced from fruit or nuts are edible, and are producedfreely on plants three feet high. The nuts are as the common Horse Chestnut, and areequal in quality to the common small chestnut. 40 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY [February, The enormous size and good quality of the fruitwill undoubtedly make it a valuable article ofcommerce, while the ornamental character ofthe shrub will recommend it for
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. ointed;,during the fall and winter the flowers sold atfifty cents each.—P. Henderson. New Dwarf Sweet Chestnut.—A new orna-mental shrub lately introduced from fruit or nuts are edible, and are producedfreely on plants three feet high. The nuts are as the common Horse Chestnut, and areequal in quality to the common small chestnut. 40 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY [February, The enormous size and good quality of the fruitwill undoubtedly make it a valuable article ofcommerce, while the ornamental character ofthe shrub will recommend it for lawns or hardy around N. Y.—P. Henderson. Improvement of the Common Garden Mari-gold.—Among the ti-iumphs of modern gardenart is the taking up of old garden flowers, andmaking them yield to the improving ideas of theflorist. Every body knows the common gardenpot Marigold; and, pretty and popular as it is,who would suppose that after culture for so manyhundred years, anything more could be made of SCRAPS AND CALENDULA OFFICINALIS, METEOR. it? Yet here we have a drawing of one sent outby Haage & Schmidt of Erfurt, and which theycall Meteor, which is as double as a the double flower it has the novelty of apale orange stripe down the centre of each strawcolored petal. Now that improvement has beenstarted, we shall expect a race of new kinds inthis popular garden flower. The Diamond Tuberose.—We are crowdedthis month, and have hardly room for all thelong correspondence on hand in regard to thisplant. It seems sufficient to note that Nanz& Neuner say they were aware that an attemptwas made to impose on two eastern firms a kindwhich was far from being the Diamond whichwe offer. They know it to be just as they repre-sented it, except that it was an error to say aswe did, five to eight inches ; it should be fif-teen to eighteen inches. But, since the ques-tion has been raised, they decided not to sell tillthey had exhibited plants this
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