. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. were so warmin their admiration that I felt Icould not over-praise it myself. The second new one is Syringa ligustrinaPekinensis, variety Pendula. It is a hlac havingfoliage, in shape, like that of the laurel willow,and, probably, white flowers, although it has notyet flowered in this country. Its habit is almost pre-cisely like that of Forsythiasuspensa ; while, graftedhigh on a standard, it forms a more graceful treethan the Kilmarnock Willow. It is the first* Weeping lilac ever seen, I think, and will bethe parent of a new type of this family, no
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. were so warmin their admiration that I felt Icould not over-praise it myself. The second new one is Syringa ligustrinaPekinensis, variety Pendula. It is a hlac havingfoliage, in shape, like that of the laurel willow,and, probably, white flowers, although it has notyet flowered in this country. Its habit is almost pre-cisely like that of Forsythiasuspensa ; while, graftedhigh on a standard, it forms a more graceful treethan the Kilmarnock Willow. It is the first* Weeping lilac ever seen, I think, and will bethe parent of a new type of this family, no , Mass. I give my experience. Some years since I hadjust such a state of affairs as Mrs. Thomson de-scribes. I had packed my sets and small bulbsin barrels, and covered the barrels with hay. Butwe had an unusually cold snap, and my bulbswere frozen,—so I thought. I found, however, inspring on examining my barrels that only about6 inches around the sides, top, and bottom of thebarrels, was frozen, and a small space in the. FREEZING OF TUBEROSE BULBS. BY JAMES M. LAMB. In your October number I find an articleheaded, Tuberose bulbs flowering after hardfreezing. I think this heading is misleading ; so FIG. I. See Hints, page 34. middle of each barrel was perfectly safe and, I amsatisfied, was not reached by the frost at all; theoutside, that first froze, protecting the inside of thebarrel, on the same principle as 6 inches of earthpiled around a bank of sweet potatoes will protectthem from frost. After an experience of fourteenyears in growing Tuberose bulbs I am persuadedthat an actual freeze will destroy both flower-germ and bulb. But I know that small bulbs leftin the ground over winter, where the groundfroze say 2 inches, have bloomed for me as wellas if taken up and kept in the greenhouse, andthat of 60,000 small bulbs left in the ground whenit froze 6 inches last year, not one ever showed aleaf. Now, Mr. Editor, I hesitated to speak ofyour comments on Mrs.
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