. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. agreeable to the frequenters of thequired in the June number for a remedy for the beautiful Fairmount Park to have a nasty limerust on Gloxinias, I thought that my experience market with its main depot within its bounda- would be of some benefit to him. EDITORIAL NOTES ries. However, it is for us to show what may bedone,—for others to entertain the practicability?— ^ or desirability of applying it. Dreers New Coleus.—The beautifulstrain of Coleus raised by Mr. H. A Dreer,we understand is to be placed on the mar-ket this spring. Heating byMaking Lime
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. agreeable to the frequenters of thequired in the June number for a remedy for the beautiful Fairmount Park to have a nasty limerust on Gloxinias, I thought that my experience market with its main depot within its bounda- would be of some benefit to him. EDITORIAL NOTES ries. However, it is for us to show what may bedone,—for others to entertain the practicability?— ^ or desirability of applying it. Dreers New Coleus.—The beautifulstrain of Coleus raised by Mr. H. A Dreer,we understand is to be placed on the mar-ket this spring. Heating byMaking Lime.—Some years sincegreenhouses were tobe heated by thewaste heat fromlimekilns. It was agood idea, but ij;does not seem tohave made muchheadway. Probablythose who wouldlike to save the heatdo not care to gointo the lime-sellingbusiness, whilethose who nowmake the lime andlose the heat knownothing of thegreenhouse man-agement. Theresurely ought to besomething in theidea if the horticul-tural and 1 i m e-burning intellect be Impro^d Chinese Primroses.—By abeautiful colored plate in the LondonFlorist and Pomologist, we learn that abeautiful variety with bright rosy flowers,but with small white spots on the marginof the lobes, has been produced. It hasbeen honored bythe title of Primulasinensis purpureapunctata. This ofitself ought to attestits princely value,for the scions ofmost royal houseshave a dozen or soof names, thougheven these cannotoften boast of longLatin ones. Drip in Green-houses. — Manyplant houses injureplants by permit-ting the condensedmoisture or leakageto drop—to asgardeners say. Toavoid this a grooveis made at the endof the rabbet or therafter, which con-veys the moistureSteep houses are less HEATING BY A LIMEKILN. evolved from our without letting it drop liable to injury from drip than those with flat As some attention is being again given to the roofs, subject, through some of the Pliiladelphia papers a Pretty Bouquet.—It was
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