. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. he preserver of the monument bad passedawav, would this Cedar of Lebanon liave stood, and been an object of interest and admiration,—but it was in the way of somebodys head-stone,and was cut down ! A Hybrid Fir.—Mr. Henry Vilmorin took atree of Abies Pinsapo and Abies Cephalonicaand dusted the male flowers of one over theyoung tone or female flowers of the other. Onlya single perfect seed resulted. This has provedto be a beautiful hybrid which is now eight feethigh. The Yine Garden. — Portions of onesgrounds especially set apart for the culture ofha
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. he preserver of the monument bad passedawav, would this Cedar of Lebanon liave stood, and been an object of interest and admiration,—but it was in the way of somebodys head-stone,and was cut down ! A Hybrid Fir.—Mr. Henry Vilmorin took atree of Abies Pinsapo and Abies Cephalonicaand dusted the male flowers of one over theyoung tone or female flowers of the other. Onlya single perfect seed resulted. This has provedto be a beautiful hybrid which is now eight feethigh. The Yine Garden. — Portions of onesgrounds especially set apart for the culture ofhardy and woody climbing vines, would have avery beautiful effect if the trellises were designedto secure a variety of form, and then the shadesome of them would afford as arbors would be aluxury in itself in the warm days of summer-time. The writer will not soon forget the beau-tiful effects in the scenery made by Vitis indi-visa, as it rambled over trees and low bushesalong the Kansas River and other points in theSouth-western MAURANDIA BARCLAY ana. Besides the beautiful effects to be had frompermanent woody climbers, much beauty maybe had from a judicious training of annual looking over Mr. H. A. Dreers catalogue,the great variety of ornamental vines offeredsugijested this paragraph. The old Maurandiafor instance, can be worked up into many beau-tiful forms. Grafted Conifers.—A writer in an Eng-lish periodical refers to a prejudice againstgrafted Coniferre, and shows that where theyhave not done well it is chiefly because theplants have been kept too long in pots. Wherethe roots are not suffered to coil they do just as-well as seedlings; and this is our experience. 40 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY (Fel)ruary, The Queen Gives a Park.—A wealthy gen-tleman near Manchester, dying without a will,and having no known heirs, the property, underthe English laws, went to the Queen. She, inturn, has donated it to the citizens as a publicPark forever. It is twenty acre
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