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Title: The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs
Year: 1837 (1830s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Boston : Hovey and Co.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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little importance. Its great and crowning beauty is the distinct striping of itslong, broad and gracefully recurved foliage,—more distinct,perhaps, than any similar plant, unless it is the Arundo Do-nax variegata, which comes nearest to it, but whose habit andfoliage are slender and small compared with the Japan maize.In the latter the leaves are three or four feet long, and threeor four inches wide, ribboned their whole length with broadalternate strips of clear white and the brightest green, occasion-ally showing pink or rose colored lines upon the edges,—thewhole producing a rich and grand effect when planted inmasses of four or six plants. The growth is as rapid as ourcommon corn, and in a few weeks the plants present a fineaspect, which is augmented as they increase in size. The con-stancy of the striping is remarkable, for we do not recollect tohave seen a single sport among quite a number of specimens.As a plant for the border, for groups or masses or single spe- MARCH. 93
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3. STRIPED JAPANESE MAIZE. 94 THE MAGAZINE OP HORTICULTURE. cimens in conspicuous places, there are few ornamental foli-aged plants which can equal it—certainly none requiring lesscare in cultivation. The culture of the Japanese maize (fig. 3) is simple. Forthe best effect it should be planted in pots in the hot bed orgreenhouse in April, and the young plants potted off singly,and removed to the open ground in May or June; it then at-tains a good size by July with many of its fine leaves, and bySeptember in good ground will reach the height of six or eightfeet, presenting a mass of foliage as striking as it is effectivein its rich and varied coloring. dossip of tjrt Utontlj. Washingtonia Gigantea.—Our very quiet and retiring contemporaryof the Gardeners Monthly, who is always so courteous and gentlemanly inhis own columns, seems to have forgotten his usual urbanity, when writingfor other papers, and we greatly regret to see our respected correspondent,Hon. R. S. Field, and we thin

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