rocure
roots for the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, which were received in
good order, but which did not survive the next winter. If taken
up, however, later in the season or very early in the spring, it is
probable that with due attention to soil and shade there would be
little trouble in cultivating it successfully. The accompanying figure
is from a drawing by Mr. C. E. Faxon.

_Sereno Watson._

[Footnote 1: TENUIS. Watson, _Proc. Amer. Acad._, xvii, 380.
Rootstock elongated, very slender (a line thick); leaves thin,
ensiform, about equaling the stems, four to eight lines broad;
stems scarcely a foot high, 2 or 3-flowered, with two or three
bract-like leaves two or three inches long; lateral peduncles
very slender, as long as the bracts; spathes scarious, an
inch long; pedicels solitary, very short; flowers small, white
marked with yellow and purple; tube two or three lines long;
segments oblong-spatulate, the sepals spreading, one and
one-half inches long, the petals shorter and emarginate;
anthers as long as the filaments; styles with narrow entire
crests; capsule oblong-ovate, obtuse, nine lines long.]

Hardy Shrubs for Forcing.

Shrubs for forcing should consist of early blooming kinds only.
The plants should be stocky, young and healthy, well-budded and
well-ripened, and in order to have first-class stock they should be
grown expressly for forcing. For cut flower purposes only, we can lift
large plants of Lilacs, Snowballs, Deutzias, Mock oranges and the like
with all the ball of roots we can get to them and plant at once in
forcing-houses. But this should not be done before New Year's. We
should prepare for smaller plants some months ahead of forcing time.
say in the preceding April or August, by lifting them and planting in
small pots, tubs or boxes as can conveniently contain their roots, and
we should encourage them to root well before winter sets in. Keep them
out of doors and plunged till after the leaves drop off; then either
mulch them where they are or bring them into a pit, shed or cool
cellar, where there shall be no fear of their getting dry, or of
having the roots fastened in by frost. Introduce them into the
green-house in succession; into a cool green-house at first for a few
weeks, then as they begin to start, into a warmer one. From the time
they are brought into the green-house till the flowers begin to open
give a sprinkling overhead t