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It flourishes best in a hot dry atmosphere, either 

 in doors or out ; moisture is its greatest enemy. 

 Sprinkle or wash your plants frequently, taking 

 care to wet the underside of the leaves tho- 

 roufjhly, and you will not be troubled with red 

 spider. In bad attacks it may be necessary to 

 sponge the leaves daily with warm water until 

 the pest is thoroughly destroyed. 



" The Aphis or Green Fhj attacks the young 

 growth, and will first be found at the extremities 

 of the branches. It feeds on the juices of the 

 plant, and will soon starve and sicken the whole 

 bush. Remedy: tobacco smoke. This is easily 

 applied by covering the plant with a box or bar- 

 rel, or even a quilt and putting under a pan of 

 Ijurning tobacco ; the smoke should remain on 

 an hour or more. If the insects are \&vy bad it 

 may take frequent applications, but it is a sure 

 cure. A strong tea of tobacco will answer the 

 same purpose, if more convenient to apply. 

 The infected part may be dipped in, or the 

 whole plant thoroughly sprinkled as often as 

 may be necessary. For house plants when to- 

 bacco is not desirable, a hqt water bath is almost 

 equally effective. The water should be as warm 

 as the hand can bear, and the whole top of the 

 plant immersed two or three times in succes- 

 sion, only two seconds at a time." 



'Orchids for Room Culture. — "We are not 

 in the advance in the suggestion that orchids 

 w'ill in time become popular room plants, for 

 we find in Mr. Grieves' catalogue the following 

 list as having been found to do well under such 

 circumstances : 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Temperature 

 during winter, 

 moist. 



not below 40° nor above 60° 

 Keeping always moderately 



Barkeria Skinnerii. 

 " spectabilis. 

 Cypripediuui barbatuni. 



" spectabile. 



" venustum. 



" insigne. 



" villosum. 



" hirsutissimum. 



" Schlimmli. 



Dendrobiura nobile. 



" transparens. 



" beterocarpum. 



Lycaste Skinnerii. 

 " aromatica. 

 " cruenta. 

 Masdevallia Lindenil. 



" tovarensis. 



" ignei. 



(The above are very cool grow- 



ing plants, and will grow 

 freely in a close humid case.) 

 Oncidium fiexuosum. 

 " obryzatum. 

 Odontoglossum Alexandrse. 

 " Pescatorei. 



" nebulosum. 



" Lindleyana. 



" grande. 



(Nearly all the species of the 

 above group may be grown 

 in a case or under a shade.) 

 Pleione maculata. 

 '.' Wallicliii. 

 Sophronites cernua. 



" grandiflora. 



(These last grow best on flat 

 blocks of wood suspended 

 on the sides of the case. 



Geranium Esther Lee. — This is an Ameri- 

 can seedling. The particular merit lies in the 

 peculiarity of the leaf which belongs to the 

 zonale class. Instead of the usual brown zonale 

 markings the leaf is made distinct from any 

 other variety by the dark zone being wider and 

 almost jet black, giving the plant a most inter- 

 esting and unique appearance. 



A New Race of Fuchsias.— In Mr. H. Can- 

 nell's " Illustrated Floral Guide," just received, 

 we find among many very interesting things an 

 account of Fuchsia "Erecta Von Novelty," 

 the flowers of which are erect instead of pendu- 

 lous as generally seen. It is thus described: 



"Remarkably novel and distinct variety, tube 

 and sepals stained with white, sepals broad and 

 well reflexed, corolla light pink, margined with 

 rose ; free bloomer, habit strong and branching ; 

 flowers erect and well above the foliage." 



TORENIA Bailloni. — There are few who do 

 not know the Torenia Asiatica, one of the most 

 beautiful of oiu- greenhouse trailing plants. A 

 couple of years ago, Mr. Buist introduced to the 

 notice of our readers Torenia Fourneiri, which 

 had more orange to the other colors of Asiatica. 

 The new T. Bailloni, as we see by a colored 

 plate in the Garden has the whole of the limb 

 or upper portion of the corolla orange, leaving 

 only the thread and tubular portion purple. It 

 was first introduced to Paris from Cochin China. 



The American Banner Tea Rose.— This 

 is a striped rose, and is a sport from Bon Silene. 

 It originated with Mr. Cartwright, of Dedham, 

 Mass. The Isabella Sprunt which was a sport 

 from Saffrano, and the white Bouvardia which 

 was a sport from the red one, have proved very 

 constant under culture, but in the case of the 

 sport Beauty of Glazenwood rose there was a sad 

 desertion of its true colors in so many cases 

 that it became worthless. How far this may 

 stand has to be tested, but we see that some 

 sports of popular plants have been constant. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Greenhouse Location. — A subscriber, Phil- 

 adelphia, says: " I have a space between two 

 houses where I am thinking about building a 

 hot house ; it faces south and stands back from 



