Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . covered withmembranous pointedfloret. is by no means new, but it has had its wave ofpopularity years ago, and is not now generallygrown. Euphorbia JacquincEJiora is the nameby which it is generally known, thovigh prop-erly E. fulgens. Its flowers or bracts aresmall but numerous, of an orange-scarlet color,and are produced continuoush^ throughout thewinter. For winter flowering, it is scarcelyexcelled. It likes plenty of heat and little Weeping Ameri-can Cherry.—Oneof the most beaiitifulof weeping t
Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . covered withmembranous pointedfloret. is by no means new, but it has had its wave ofpopularity years ago, and is not now generallygrown. Euphorbia JacquincEJiora is the nameby which it is generally known, thovigh prop-erly E. fulgens. Its flowers or bracts aresmall but numerous, of an orange-scarlet color,and are produced continuoush^ throughout thewinter. For winter flowering, it is scarcelyexcelled. It likes plenty of heat and little Weeping Ameri-can Cherry.—Oneof the most beaiitifulof weeping trees isthe variety of Pru-nus serotina, P. serc-tina pendnla of cata-logues. It was foundamong some thou-sands of seedlings ofthe ordinar}^ WildCherry in a nurserynear Dresden, inSaxony, and intro-duced in 1886 by Mielzsch of thatcity. Unfortunately,the branches are ver>-brittle, and nursery-men cannot handle itto satisfaction. Bythe time it is deliv-ered to a customer,there is little remain-ing of the head butthe stock on whichit was grafted. GOLDEN SHOWER CHRYSANTHEMUM. bracts—one to each EuPHORBi.\ fulgens for Winter-Flower-ing.—It is pleasing to notice the interest someflorists take in making popular comparativelyunknown, desirable plants. One of these par-ticularly impressed the writer on a recent de-lightful visit to the extensive greenhouses ofMr. Robert Craig, one of Philadelphias mostintelligent and progressive florists. This plant Death by Suffo-cation.—Trees,and,indeed, all terrestrialvegetation,
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