EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Louisville on the 19th and 20th September. All contributors from a distance are requested 

 to Stud their articles to the care of the Treasurer, A. G. Mitnk, who will have them 

 arranged lor exhibition. All articles for oxliibition must be delivered at the exhibition 

 room by D o'clock A. M. on Tuesday, Sept. 11). 



Snjjtotra to Corrtaponbtnta. 



(P., Elkhorn, 'Wis.) Insects. — Tlie " nits" which you speak of on the bark of your Apple trees, 

 are scaft/ aphides, or bark-lice. You can destroy them with a wash made of eoft soap and water 

 — two quarts of the former to eight of the latter, with lime enough added to make it as thick as 

 whitewash. Give the affected parts a good coat of this with a brush. 



The caterpillar on the leaves is quite a different insect, and can be destroyed most easily in the 

 morning, before they spread over the tree. Hand-gathering is the most efficient 



How TO STOCK A Gbeesiiouse.— I built, List year, a small greenhouse, with a view of having cut-flowers regularly 

 for the center table. I had previously known little of the cultivation, and no more than a transient frequenter knows 

 of the contents and mode of treatment necessary to produce the required result. My gardener, who had previously 

 conducted a little commercial greenhouse, was my adviser. 'We bought a hundred young Camellias, and some other 

 plants, sowed seeds, potted Roses, got cuttings from friends, made a Arc, and waited for flowers. I was disappointed 

 — very much so; for though we had. I must say, flowers, we could rarely do more than pluck a nosegay, such as is 

 sold for a couple of shillings, and not always that When made up, too, I had the mortification to notice in contem- 

 poraneous boquets, beautiful things that 1 had not got. My IJoses bloomed a little, very late; the Camellias very 

 poorly — mostly dropped off; and 1 had the mortification of hearing that the temperature that suited one thing did 

 not suit another. The attempt to combine a multitude of things, a great variety in one temperature, did not answer 

 at all. I took to reading, and searched all the books ; but none gave me the information I wanted. I can not afford 

 two houses; I want Camellias, and Koses, and fine boquets all the season ; I am willing to forego the Grapes on the 

 rafters, which I see others have, and which I fear would crowd and shade too much. What am I to do? 



When should the Eoses be potted, to give me a fine bloom by Christmas? What should be the selection of plants 

 to produce the result designed? We have had, from many writers, lists of select Hoses, lists of seeds to plant in 

 flower gardens, and so forth ; but I do not find any select list of the proper contents of such a greenhouse as I have 

 described. Would you, Mr. Editor, or some of your experienced correspondents, give a few practical instructions, 

 with a catalogue of such plants as give the best continual bloom during the cold months; what Eoses do the best; 

 and so forth ? I confess, under present circumstances, I wish I had my eight hundred dollars back, unless I can get 

 more flowers in winter. A little treatise on this subject is much wanted, which would give the learner some real 

 information, and, if it must be so, tell him haic much he timitt evpect to he disappointed ! at the same time that it 

 gives a catalogue of good blooming plants, say the indispensable. Querist. 



This comes upon us too late in the month to do it full justice, and we cannot allow it to lay 

 over wholly till next month. We will make a few suggestions, which we hope will be taken up 

 and enlarged upon by some of our practical correspondents who are well informed as to the 

 " ways and means" of providing for a flowery greenhouse in the depth of winter. 



It may be well enough to state, at the outset, that with a small greenhouse it is not a very cosy 

 matter to keep a great variety of plants in blossom, and to come quite up to "contemporaneous 

 boquets" in all their beautiful things. To attempt too much, will be a certain cause of failure. 

 The plants must be selected with their particular purpose in view. An economical supply of 

 flowers for the months of November and December may be secured by lifting certain bedding 

 jihints from the garden, before the frost injures them. Of this class are Salvias, Heliotropes, 

 Scarlet Geraniums, Abutilons, Bouvardias, Cupheas, llabrothamnus, Plumb.ngos. If large, fine 

 blooming plants of these are taken up in a moist time, with as much earth as possible around the 

 roots, and placed in pots or boxes where they will have plenty of room, they will continue 

 in bloom for a considerable length of time. They should be placed, after potting, in a close 

 frame, and be shaded from the midday sun until they have taken to their new quarters, and then 

 may be placed on the greenhouse stage. 



Monthly Roses may also be used in the same way — Teas, Bengals, Bourbons and Noisettes, — 

 in the absence of a stock properly prepared in pots, for early forcing. These might be planted 



