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M. E. T., Boston. — When shall I take up verbenas and heliotropes ? — You 

 need not move your verbenas until the last of October, if you are in the city : 

 if in the suburbs, take them up about a fortnight earlier. Heliotropes are much 

 more tender, and should be taken up before they are touched by the frost. 



All plants repotted from the open ground should be somewhat pruned in. 



H., Santa Cruz, Cal. — The plants for which you wish names came in good 

 order. Some of them we must study up ; for we are seldom favored with queries 

 from the Pacific coast. Number one is a rhododendron ; number two, an 

 azalea ; number three, a casnothus. The plants you mention would prove hardy 

 with you ; but we cannot tell you where to get seed. 



PoMOLOGiST, Brighton. — Your pear is Beurre d'Aremberg ; the apple, 

 Northern Spy. 



H. D. Merrill, Louisville, Ky. — We honestly believe "Tlie President Wilder 

 Strawberry" to be the best ever raised ; otherwise the publishers of " The Jour- 

 nal of Horticulture " would not have paid so high a price for the stock. 



Tyro, Elmira, N.Y. — Number one is Anemone Japonica j number two, a 

 very poor chrysanthemum, which we cannot name. 



I. M., Shelby ville, Ind. — Number one is not a Pensiemon, but Dracocepha- 

 lutn de7iticulatuin ; number two is Scutillarea serralaj number three, Clielone 

 glabra, the white-flowered variety. 



Stove-Plaxts, Nev/-York City. — The flowers of achimenes and of many 

 gesneriaceous plants are very difficult to transport, and those sent are wholly 

 undistinguishable. 



Encodonia (^Ettcodonopsis) Naegeloides is one of the most charming of the 

 family. It is figured in " Flore des Serres," vol. 16, plate i ; and is a hybrid 

 between Encodonia Ehrejibe7-gi and A'aegelia zebrina splendens. In both foliage 

 and flower, it is a beautiful plant. Some charming Naegelias are figured as 

 above, plates 167 1-2. 



I. W. McIntyre, St. Louis, Mo. — Your letter was mislaid. You will find 

 full directions for the construction of both Wardian and Waltcnian cases in 

 " Flowers for the Parlor and Garden," published at this ofiSce. 



I. Cochrane, Havana, 111. — Your plant is Cassia Charnacrisla, or Partridge 

 Pea, a very pretty species. 



W. T. M., Groveland. — Our November number will contain an article on 

 crocus-planting. Meanwhile look through the volume of " The Journal of Horti- 

 culture " for last year, and you will find a list of varieties, and some useful articles 

 upon bulb-culture. 



