. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 542 The American Florist. ')uly a specimen was discovered last winter by J. H. Betterman, an American scientist, on an outlying spur of the Sierra Madre Mountains. He claims that this is the third tree of the kind ever found, and the only one in the New World; of the other two, one was discovered on a pesk of the Himalayas, and the other in the Island of Sumatra. The Mexican plant was only "twenty feet high but covering a large ; Its branches were slimy and twined and twisted like snakes and covered
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 542 The American Florist. ')uly a specimen was discovered last winter by J. H. Betterman, an American scientist, on an outlying spur of the Sierra Madre Mountains. He claims that this is the third tree of the kind ever found, and the only one in the New World; of the other two, one was discovered on a pesk of the Himalayas, and the other in the Island of Sumatra. The Mexican plant was only "twenty feet high but covering a large ; Its branches were slimy and twined and twisted like snakes and covered with tentacle-like suckers. On the evening of its discovery it ate a large bird and the skin of the botanist's hand for supper, and next morning it devoured six chickens for breakfast. Illustrated and described in the St. Louis Globc-Dcmo- crat. This wonderful tree may be seen through the mists of Chihuahua pulque. Canterbury Beli-S —Again let me draw your attention to the magnificence of these old-fashioned flowers. They have got beyond the sameness, coarse- ness and commonness of former days, and in them we now have some of the loveliest and most desirable summer flow- ers in cultivation. They are in perfection from the 25th of May till the loth of June, a good deal depending upon season and treatment. As cut flowers they are superb, they last well and look well and seem different from most every other flower we grow, besides, there is nothing stinted about them, they have a full and generous appearance. And now is the time to sow them for next year. If sown in spring they grow too big to winter over safely and in little space, that is, unless plants for forcing are needed, in which case early sowing is advisable. As regards varieties, get pure white and rose as singles, and the same as doubles, but the doubles are not always as pretty as the singles; and by all means get the cup-and-saucer or calycanthema forms. Of these pure white,' Rose and Mauve Beauty are as good as a
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