In removing old plants of yuccas, an ample supply of young plants can be obtained by taking roots of the size of a finger and cutting them in lengths of three or four inches. If slightly covered by soil, young plants will be produced without trouble. - Ibid., p. 44.

Yuccas As Ornamental Plants In The Garden And Lawn

THIs class of flowering plants is, as yet, a great novelty in all our gardens. We doubt if over one in a thousand who keep flower gardens, have yet seen or thought of growing one of these charming, yet exquisite flowering plants. The Yucca filamentosa is one of the best for general use. Fuller describes it as follows: " Leaves evergreen, long and rather stiff, spreading occasionally ; slightly recurved. Flowers usually pure white, but in some specimens are slightly tinged with greenish yellow. They also vary in size from one to two inches long, and are nearly as broad. Flower stem four to eight feet high, branching, carrying several hundred blooms, each of which is succeeded by a large, six-celled pod, filled with smooth, flat, dark colored seeds. After the plant blooms, the centre of the crown dies, numerous suckers spring up from below, and these will bloom as soon as they are large and strong enough, which is usually in two or three years; but if taken off and planted separately, they will bloom the second season. The seeds grow very readily if planted in autumn or early spring, and transplanted at the end of the first season.

Seedlings usually bloom when three years old.

" Although this species is a native of the Southern States, it is quite hardy even in the Northern border States; and we have known it to stand a temperature of 24° below zero, uninjured".

The plants are very cheap, being sold by most florists as low as fifty cents each.