Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . - i\I. Desponds, ofMarseilles, in 1856. The genus to which itbelongs is a ver^- small but handsome one ofherbaceous greenhouse perennials. It belongsto the order of Lobeliacecc. They are all nativesof Mexico and South America. The plant re-ferred to is not (at least with me) at all difficultof cultivation. It thrives well in a temperatureof about 60 or 65 degrees during the day andabout 5 degrees lower at night, although 5degrees lower will not hurt The soil used is a light one, consisting ofequal parts of loam,
Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . - i\I. Desponds, ofMarseilles, in 1856. The genus to which itbelongs is a ver^- small but handsome one ofherbaceous greenhouse perennials. It belongsto the order of Lobeliacecc. They are all nativesof Mexico and South America. The plant re-ferred to is not (at least with me) at all difficultof cultivation. It thrives well in a temperatureof about 60 or 65 degrees during the day andabout 5 degrees lower at night, although 5degrees lower will not hurt The soil used is a light one, consisting ofequal parts of loam, manure,sand and leaf drainage must be thoroughly efficient. Itis eas\- of propagation either by cutting or divi-sion. The plant in this collection was im-. to change names after they have become BUSHY MADE-UP PLANT OF KENTIA BELMOREANA. 26 MEEHAXS MONTHLY—GEXERAL GARDENING. [February ported, and although (as iisital) it had a hardtime before it arrived here, it soon recuperatedand is a great source of satisfaction. It hasbeen in bloom this season since November 25,and shows promise of being so all winter. Rahway, N. J. ALFRED PEARCE. A Vlza for Nature in Landscape Art.—There is one department of the general subjectof landscape gardening, that is well worthmuch more thought than is usually bestowedupon it, either by landscape artists in theirwork, or, by those who write,—it is, f/ie prese?--vafifl)/ of the beautiful in natural landscapes. We have many illustrious examples inlandscape work, of .something made out ofalmost nothing; and all praise is due the noblespirit, the genus and the skill that can workout such wonders of beauty, where before therewas barreness or monotony of scene, if notpositive ugliness. We have a surfeit of so
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