368 Editors' Lettcr-Box. 



E. C. K., Elgin, 111. — We know no reason why ivy should refuse to grow 

 over an iron door. Plants grow freely on wire or iron trellises. You must look 

 further for your reason. Are there any special draughts near the door, or any 

 foul air .'' 



D. S. H., Macomb, 111. — An article on caladia appears in this number. The 

 plants you send are No. i, with white flowers, — Solanum jasminoides. No. 2, 

 a young shoot of Lonicera brac/iypoda. 



C. G., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. — The plants sent are, No. i, undistinguishable 

 from a single leaf Send all information you have of the plant ; the leaf sent 

 may belong to a dozen different plants. 



No. 2. is Habrotha?nns elegans. 



No. 3 came as a single dry, broken leaf, and is undistinguishable. In sending 

 plants for a name, tell all you know about them, — their habit and nature, wheth- 

 er hardy or tender, — and send flowers or fruit with the foliage. 



Mrs. D. C, Erving, Mass. — Your rose must be very fine ; the "insects" are 

 red spiders, and your treatment of showering is the right way to get rid of them. 

 The editors or publishers have no slips, plants, or seeds for sale. Washburn & 

 Co., Joseph Breck & Son, or Hovey & Co., of Boston, can supply all you want. 



Mrs. J. T. S., Yuba City, Cal. — The plants you send are, — 

 No. I. Platystemoii californicum. 

 No. 2. NcniopJiila insigtiis. 



No. 3. Dodccatheoti Meadia, the California variety. 

 No. 4. Entrichiiim fuhmin. 

 No. 5. Lithopliragtiia hcteropJiyUa. 



Idem. — Box is best propagated by cuttings or by division. Pull the plants all 

 to pieces, and every bit with a root will make a plant ; the low kind used for 

 edgings is Buxus seinpervirens suffruticosa. 



