The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . thhold water, and dry off the plant. The best species for house-culture are O. versicolor, a charming plant, welladapted for hanging-baskets : flowers white inside, red outside, and verypretty when half expanded. O. Bowsii, large rosy flowers, blooming inearly autumn. O. Jlava, a fine species, bearing a profusion of fragrant yellowblossoms. O. luxiila and the variety alba have large pink or white blossoms, andare very effective ; but all the Cape species are pretty, and worth growing. R. S. Rand, jlun. Glen Ridge, February, 1869. (
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . thhold water, and dry off the plant. The best species for house-culture are O. versicolor, a charming plant, welladapted for hanging-baskets : flowers white inside, red outside, and verypretty when half expanded. O. Bowsii, large rosy flowers, blooming inearly autumn. O. Jlava, a fine species, bearing a profusion of fragrant yellowblossoms. O. luxiila and the variety alba have large pink or white blossoms, andare very effective ; but all the Cape species are pretty, and worth growing. R. S. Rand, jlun. Glen Ridge, February, 1869. (To be continued.) 156 Asler Chincnsis. ASTER CHINENSIS,—^j/«., CALLISTEPHUS CHINENSIS. Among the numerous classes of flowers which have received the attentionof florists, none have been more wonderfully improved and beautified thanthe aster, which may now be considered as one of the leading flowers ofthe garden. Aster, the old-fashioned name of this interesting and ornamental family,has been changed by botanists to Calllstephus, from the Greek, meaning ^^. beautiful crown; which name is appropriate for the superb improvedvarieties of this popular flower. Probably this new name may not begenerally adopted for some time to come, notwithstanding the propriety ofcalling every thing by the right name. In its unimproved state, the florets of the disk, or centre, of the flower,are all perfect; that is, bearing both stamens and pistils, producing anabundance of seed; while the flat florets of the ray (the ornamental por-tion of the flower) are .merely pistiliferous without stamens : thus, when As/cr Chinensis. 157 these florets of the disk are changed by cultivation into flat pistiliferousray florets, they produce very little seed. Somttimes not a perfect seedcan be found in a full double flower: this is the reason why the seed is soexpensive. Our correspondents from Prussia write us this year, that astershave earncdhwi a little seed this season; meaning that the produce is
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