. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. ll should Mrs. Kalbreyer happen to be aleader of fashion on Walnut street, the ladieswould not worry much over the hardship ofremembering the name. It is no harder toremember than scores of names of people wemeet in everyday life. Perhaps it is easier toremember a hard name that is fashionable thanan easy one that is not in the lower world. Butthe plant is not English, but African, and hencehas no English name,—and were we to giveits common name, if the Africans ever had acommon name for it, it would not perhaps helpthe matter very much. But it seem
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. ll should Mrs. Kalbreyer happen to be aleader of fashion on Walnut street, the ladieswould not worry much over the hardship ofremembering the name. It is no harder toremember than scores of names of people wemeet in everyday life. Perhaps it is easier toremember a hard name that is fashionable thanan easy one that is not in the lower world. Butthe plant is not English, but African, and hencehas no English name,—and were we to giveits common name, if the Africans ever had acommon name for it, it would not perhaps helpthe matter very much. But it seem to be a very pretty thing,—one ofthe many pretty things introduced to gardensby the enterprise of Mr. Wm. Bull, of Chelsea,London. Its showy inflorescence is of immensesize, a single head often producing upwards of a 204 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY [July, hundred of its attractive flowers which are of a glowing color. Tt is closely allied to Amaryllis,bright reddish vermilion color. The filaments Brunswigia, and other well known African bul-. are brightly colored, while the golden anthers j bous plants, and requires to be treated just as wehave a pretty effect in contrast with the mass of 1 do others. 1882.] AND HORTICULTURIST. 205 SCRAPS AND QUERIES. Floral Designs.—C, Boston, Mass, sajs : I send you by mail a copy of the Boston Trav-eller, wherein a notice is inserted of certainfloral designs originated by me. If youwould make some comment in your journalabout the same, I would be most thankful toyou. [This Boston Traveller wandered in a wrongdirection. It did not come before us. We referto the note to say the editor regards it as hisduty to the readers to keep them informed ofanything novel, at all times.—Ed. G. M.] Greenhouse Correspondence.—So much in-terest has been developed in the matter ofsteam heating for greenhouses, that we havebeen led to defer some valuable papers on othersubjects from esteemed correspondents, whichwill, however, soon appear. Carnation Beauty
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