Editors' Letter- Box. \2y 



A. S., Easton, Penn. — Your plant is Lnpitms polyphyllus. It will ripen 

 seed freely. There is a white variety. Japan lilies and Lilium auratum do 

 very well in pots, and, if well cared for, often do better than when grown in the 

 border. 



The following communication replies to a host of questions, the burden of 

 which is, " How can I best destroy the rose-slug .'' " 



Editors of "The American Journal of Horticulture." 



" Ere the next number of the Journal is before the people, no doubt that great 

 pest to rose-growers, the slug, will have commenced his work of destruction, 

 rapidly converting the beautiful leaflets of our pet roses into unsightly skeletons, 

 depriving many florists of their chief joy. 



" I find many do not yet know that the destroyer may be effectually checked 

 and routed by the use of white powdered hellebore, which may be procured 

 cheaply of most druggists. Apply to the foliage infested, while the dew is on, 

 with a common dredging-box ; remembering to cleanse the box well before using 

 for other purposes, as the hellebore is poisonous. " N. L. Wood. 



"Smithfield, O." 



Whale-oil-soap or tobacco-soap are both efficacious for this purpose. 



Mrs. F. W. W., Princeton, 111. — Your plant is Euonymtis Japonicus j and, 

 being the green-leafed variety, is hardly worth growing as a house-plant. The 

 flower is insignificant. It would probably prove a hardy shrub with you, and 

 certainly could be wintered in the cellar. It has no resemblance to a camellia. 



R. W , Troy, N.Y. — Yucca gloriosa is not hardy. Grow it in a tub or large 

 pot, and winter it in the cellar. The tender Yuccas are very ornamental if placed 

 in effective situations in neat tubs. 



Y. filameiitosa is perfectly hardy, and makes a splendid mass. We are 

 experimenting with some others, and will report in due season. 



E. A. F., Meadville, Penn. — Letter mislaid. Your plant is a Stevia. It has 

 none of the habit of, or any resemblance to, a Habrothamnus. 



Cincinnati. — We have understood that Col. M. P. Wilder had originated 

 a new strawberry tliat promised well. What can you tell us about it? — We 

 hope to tell you all about it soon, and give you a cut of it too. He has two 

 valuable seedlings not yet named. We hope one at least of them will receive 

 the name of the originator. 



H. C, Hammonton, N.J. — Is the Frogmore Late Pine Strawberry a valuable 

 variety for general cultivation ? If so, where can plants of it be had ? — This 

 variety is of no value for market-purposes. The plants burn to death in sum- 

 mer, and do not stand the winter well. It may possibly do for amateur culti- 

 vators. 



