Georgia Hortlicultural Society

A new society with this title has been organized and holds its sessions at Atlanta, Ga. At its meeting this fall, the members filled two tables, each 100 feet long, with fruit of most attractive description - pears, apples, grapes, figs, etc.

Geranium Maculatum, (Crowfoot Geranium, Cranesbill.)

We must make another visit to the low meadow and sheltered rivulet, for here now the cranesbill expands its delicate purple petals. This is not inferior to some of the cultivated species, and as it grows in the greatest profusion, the effect it produces is very pleasing.

Geraniums Struck From Roots

The accompanying is a specimen of propagating this class of plants by roots. I don't know if it is generally known. I find it very useful. Roots cut into short pieces at any time of the year grow just covered with earth. If put in in the autumn they will push in spring; anytime during summer they are up in a few weeks. - W. W., in Gard. Chron.

Gerardia Flava And Pedicularia, (False Foxglove.)

These plants are distinguished for handsome foliage, and large, lemon-yellow flowers, shaped like the foxglove of the gardens. They grow about two feet high, and prefer dry, open woods.

G. purpurea and tenuifolia. These are much smaller than the preceding; their flowers are purple, and they are found in cold, damp soils.

Gerenhouse Climbers

The following are evergreen climbers for a cool conservatory, and grow very fast and intermediate between shrubby and herbaceous, lasting many years, and getting over the roof very quickly: Cobcea scandens; Maurandya Barclayana, semper-florens, and antirrhinifolia; Rodochiton volubile, and Lophospermum erubesoens. The following are hardier still, and more shrubby, but slower in growing: Clematis odorata, cceralea, and Sieboldii. The following will grow rapidly, and be somewhat shrubby: Doli-chos lignosus, Passiflora ocerulea and Ccerulea racemosa, Lonioera japonica, Jasminum revolutum and gracile, and Sollya heterophylla.

Hardy plants that will flower early in the conservatory, are Wallflowers, Dentsias, Wei-gelas, etc.

German Stocks

The lllustrirte Garten Zeitung says, that the German seed men produce the fine double varieties so well known by growing the plants in the richest soil, watching them, even from infancy, to see that they receive no check to their luxuriance, either through want of water, or from any other cause, until the seed is fully matured.

Germination Of Primula Japonica

English florists find that the Primula Japonica retains its germinating power down to the third season. Seeds which were received direct from Japan by E. G.. Henderson & Son, and germinated but small numbers the first year, produced thousands freely the second year, and the same pans still produced the third year from the original sowing.

Germinaton Of Seeds

Some curious statements have recently been published in regard to the extent to which the germination of seeds can be facilitated by chemical agencies, especially by ammonia and oxalic acid. By placing them in a solution of the latter substance, they will begin to germinate within one or two days, even after having been kept for forty years, and are then to be planted out in the usual way. Coffee seeds, which are proverbially hard to start, are best forwarded by placing in a covered vessel, containing equal parts of water and of spirits of sal ammoniac, at the ordinary temperature. At the end of the twelve hours the roots will be found to have started, and even the young leaves can be discovered by careful inspection. In 1834 wheat was exhibited to the German Scientific Association, raised from seed found in an Egyptian tomb, 2,000 to 2,500 years old. This had been soaked for a considerable time in fatty oil before planting.