. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSgo. The American Florist. 401. ?\Ht \Ntt\-\t "\ORtU\^ VOURHVtW. ing and useful hardy perennial, white and easily gotten up from seed. But it has long been in cultivation and seed lists too. Argyreia , a perennial vine, a tropical convolvulus. Datura chlorantha, double flower- ing.—Has large, drooping, fragrant, yellow flowers. It is not a new plant at all either in gardens or seed lists, but well woi-th pushing again. Like several other of our finest daturas, it is a tender peren- nial, but as i
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSgo. The American Florist. 401. ?\Ht \Ntt\-\t "\ORtU\^ VOURHVtW. ing and useful hardy perennial, white and easily gotten up from seed. But it has long been in cultivation and seed lists too. Argyreia , a perennial vine, a tropical convolvulus. Datura chlorantha, double flower- ing.—Has large, drooping, fragrant, yellow flowers. It is not a new plant at all either in gardens or seed lists, but well woi-th pushing again. Like several other of our finest daturas, it is a tender peren- nial, but as it flowers freely the first year from seed we usually treat it as an annual. Euphorbia HETEROPHYLLA.—Last year it may be remembered, Mr. Goodell, of Dwight, Mass., "sent it out" in order to get ahead of his brethren, but he didn't have nearly enough stock of it. All have plenty, however, this year. It is nice enough in its way, rather coarse, not very show_v, useless for cut flowers and may be somewhat disappointing. But the seed is good and germinates well. Asters.—.\mong the China asters we have several claimants for attention, but the new white edged Triumph and the blue flowered Comet are the most strik- ing. Speaking of asters, I may say that that field of Comet I saw at Vick's last August was the finest aster sight that I have ever seen. Every flower like an immense full-double Japanese pink chrys- anthemum. Eckford's Sweet Peas in packets come to us every year. I don't dispute their fineness at all, but I do find fault with the quaHty of the seed. Salvia splendens var. Clavanad is said to be an earlier blooming and longer lasting form than that in common culti- vation, also that it has longer flower Salvia patens lilacina.—In S. patens we have one of the most splendid blues in flowers, and we shudder at the thought of a lilac variety of it. S. prunelloides that was resurrected a year or two ago is no good; S. farinosa is a pleasant, pale blue, c
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