. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. had from time to time the ex-periences of some correspondents, and morewould be desirable. In the Old World the cul-ture is advancing as fast as in ours, and somenurserymen make growing Amaryllis an especialbranch of their trade. A large house full of flow-ering plants is a particularly brilliant object anddraws crowds to admire them. We give on p. 104an illustration of the house of Mr, WiUiams, who iswell known in America by his advertisementsin the Gardeners Monthly. It may help thosewho love to look on things critically, to say thatin these moder
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. had from time to time the ex-periences of some correspondents, and morewould be desirable. In the Old World the cul-ture is advancing as fast as in ours, and somenurserymen make growing Amaryllis an especialbranch of their trade. A large house full of flow-ering plants is a particularly brilliant object anddraws crowds to admire them. We give on p. 104an illustration of the house of Mr, WiUiams, who iswell known in America by his advertisementsin the Gardeners Monthly. It may help thosewho love to look on things critically, to say thatin these modern times, botanists have removednearly all the kinds we know as Amaryllis toother genera, and these illustrated in particular toHippeastrum. The old Amaryllis Belladonna isnearly all that is left to Amaryllis proper. Butthe term, Amaryllis, as signifying the whole family,without any regard to any special genus in thefamily, is very convenient, being so widely known,and will be long retained by plant growers. I04 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY [April,. COMMUNICATIONS. emphatically yes, it grows; with me it is by farthe strongest growing rose I have ever seen. Ihave just pruned a house of it here, which hadplenty of canes 14 to 16 feet long, grown since FAILURE OF HER MAJESTY ROSE. BY J. N. MAY. At page 42, your correspondent, Mr. S. F. Ter- | the 9th of January, last year, the date they werewilliger, asks if this rose ever grows, and is free planted. They were then very small mildew. To the first question, I would say Some few of these plants flowered, and grand 1887.] AND HORTICULTURIST. 105 flowers they were, too. The largest one I ex-hibited at the Spring show of the New York Hor-ticultural Society measured 19;^ inches in circum-ference, and very fine in color considering theplant which bore it only landed in America onor about Christmas Day—a little over threemonths before the bloom was exhibited. Theseplants all grew in a very healthy way till we stoppedfiring ; then, as
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