Seedless Oranges

The Gardeners' Chronicle says, that the usual forms of orange planted for fruit, are not adapted for growing for cut flowers. The plants suffering from the constant cutting. The Saville or Bitter orange is grown for cut flowers. These are called Bigaradier by the French, and a seedless variety is by far the most floriferous.

Double Spathed Calla

Mr. A. C. Oelschig, Savannah, Georgia, sends a specimen of the double spathed Calla, the first we have seen this year, though sometimes they are more frequently met with. The white spathe of the Calla is but a leaf, blanched, the true flowers being at the base of the yellow spadix. In these cases the plant has simply produced two instead of one blanched leaf.

The Lattice-Leaf Plant Of Madagascar

This curious water plant which had the name of Ouviranda fenestralis, is found to belong to the older genus of Aponogeton of which another water plant, A. distachyon, is a well known representative.

Propagating Male Plants

" Dr. K.," Allegheny, Pa., inquires whether the male or female form of a dioecious plant can be continued indefinitely by cuttings, grafts, or buds? It can. The Chinese Juniper in nurseries is simply the male form of the Chinese species, and has been continued under cultivation for a number of years. Of the millions of plants, all, so far as we know, have continued male.

The Origin Of Flowers

" I sometimes think that never Mows so red The rose, as where some buried Caesar bled;

That every Hyacinth the garden wears Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head.

And this reviving herb, whose tender green Fledges the river lip on which we lean,

Ah, lean upon it lightly ! for who knows From what once lovely lip it springs unseen !"

- Omar Khayyam.

The Azalea Trade

Some idea of the enormous trade in flowering plants, when once a firm has got to be well known, may be inferred from the fact that in the closing up of the old firm of Linden at Ghent, Belgium, last month, 100,000 azaleas were sold.

An Overstock Of Good Gardeners

Either the prize must have been tempting, or gardeners must be abundant as well in Germany as elsewhere, when 268 applied for the position of superintendent of the Central Cemetery at Hamburg.

The India-Rubber Plant

Everybody knows the India-rubber plant with its thick leathery leaves, at which Punch gets off the following joke:

"The Honorable Tom: 'Haw! This is, I suppose - er - the new tobacco that everybody's growing.' Elfrida de Smyth: ' Oh. dear no. That's an India-rubber plant ! The Honorable Tom: India-rubber ! Bai jove ! Now I'd have bet any money it was real. What - er - wonderful imitations there are now-a-days !'"