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I PRICE SIX CENTS, 
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I we should certaiuly endeavor to cultivate 
, this lovely family of plants. 
our correspondent is asking for just what 
she says she does not want — scientific in¬ 
formation. We should, however, bo pleased 
to help her, but oannot, for the simple rea¬ 
son that we do not know what kind of a 
worm it is that eats the Nasturtiums. Then, 
if we did, perhaps it has never been honored 
with a common name, although its Latin 
title is probably well known. Wo would 
advise catching and killing tho rascals be¬ 
fore they destroy the plants; this is our 
method of getting rid of enemies iu 
garden. 
A BEAUTIFUL CLIMBING PLANT 
Nyotocalos Thompsonl. 
Worms in Nasturtiums.—E. C. B. asks 
how to dostroy a green worm that cuts off 
the. nasturtium leaves as soon as they ap¬ 
pear. She says she does not want tho sci¬ 
entific name nor any scientific knowledge 
of the pest. In the outset we may say that 
Having no national or private botanical almost any good location in this country, 
garden in this country worthy of the name, we have no doubt; but at the present price 
we are obliged to look to European gardens of labor we do not think it can be done witli 
for rarities in the florul world. Even the profit. Hundreds of experiments have been 
treasures of our own continent and country made for tho purpose of determining the 
are first made known and generally dis¬ 
seminated from the gardens of Europe. 
Wo herewith present an Illustration of 
a most magnificent climbing plant, •' 
from Assam, sent to the Kew Gardens t MjjjjL JgEpgB&. 
from the Calcutta Botanic Garden six 
or seven years ago. The plant is nearly ("W 
related to our BiijinrnUr, or more prop- ||^jjSjj||||I*. ■ 
erly TecoWd, tho well-known Trumpet 
erect, four to five in a cluster, borne on X Xs.. ■ 
terminal peudulous peduncles, and of 
the size shown. The llowcrs are sue- /^pjS — 
ceeded by a pod six inohes long by two \W /-•"*, _ yM 
broad, and quite flat. This beautiful It 
climber would not be hardy in our 
climate, but must be well worthy of a m ;: ' V. / \ 
place in a conservatory where it could W f '■ X ‘ 1||| 
be traiued to tho rafters or upon an ^JaWfl I 
ornamental trellis work. We do not 1 *|/ , J 
know that any of our llorists have as 1 
yet any plants for sale; but as all the VV *$0/ 
BiGNONiACEAi are readily propagated ■ t amm 
by seeds or cuttings, we presume it V \\ Bw||:A 
will soon be abundant—at least there is v . XJtW 
no good reason why it should not be. 
Wild Flowers for a Name.—Please 
tell me the names of the inclosed flow¬ 
ers. They are wild flowers, and grow 
from four to six inches high. — Mrs. 
Augusta Armstrong, Litchfield, Pa. 
The plant with roso-colored flowers, 
with a few leaves crowded at tho top 
of a slender stem, about four inches 
high, is the Fringed Polygala (Polygala 
pauctfaUa). It is a pretty little plant 
with subterranean stems upon which 
are concealed the fertile Huwors. those 
appearing on the tops of the stems pro¬ 
ducing no seed. By close examination, 
you will readily discover the two dis¬ 
tinct sexes of flowers. 
Tho other plant which you send is 
known in some localities as the wild 
Rue Anemone (Thaltetrum anemo- 
noules .) It is a tmall, delicate plant, 
blooming in early Spring. Flowers 
white, produced on stems about four 
inches high, in small umbel# surround¬ 
ed by leaves. This species of Thallct- 
rum i# often mistaken for an A nemone, 
and with good reasons; for it resembles 
one in every particular, with the ex¬ 
ception that it has no stem leaves like 
the true Anemone, all being borne on 
the flower stalk, as we have stated 
above. 
FLORICULTUEAL NOTES, 
Salt for Rose Bashes.—A Chenan¬ 
go Co., N. Y., correspondent writes: 
“ Tt is said that salt put in the ground 
around the roots of rose bushes ill 
spring, will prevent the slugs from eat¬ 
ing the leaves in summer. Will not the 
salt injure, if not kill, the bushes?” 
Salt applied to the roots of rose 
bushes would certainly not affect any 
insect that feeds upon the leaves. Wo 
do not know to what insect you refer 
by the name of slug. If it is the black, 
slimy slug which sometimes are very 
abundant upon roses as well as fruit 
trees, you may readily get rid of them 
by dusting with lime, ashes, or road 
dust. But there are two or three kinds 
of worms, also called rose slugs, iu 
some parts of the country; even the 
leaf-rollers are called slugs by some 
persons; therefore we are at a loss 
what to recommend without a more 
minute descriptiou of the enemy. 
Cresylic soap and water is a pretty 
general bisect aunihilator and a safe 
solution to use on infested rose bushes. 
Soil for Daphue Cncorum.— What 
soil suits Daphne eneorwm t Or are we 
too far South for it to succeed? Mine 
have been very carefully treated and 
still do badly.—A. R., Bowling Green, 
Kentucky. 
This species of Daphne is a uative of 
the mountains of Europe, where it 
grows as a low, trailing undorshrub; 
consequently it is usually more or less 
shaded. If you would succeed with it, 
plant in a half shady border and in soil 
composed of clay or loam, intermixed 
with leaf mold from tho woods. 
To Fumigate Plants.—My mode of 
fumigating a single plant is shown in 
the drawing, (page 408). The tobacco 
smoke is to bo blown iu from a pipe. 
The largo plant is covered with a sheet 
of newspaper tied at the top and pasted 
together at the joining. The small 
plant is covered with a garden pot 
placed on a wet cloth, and the hole at 
the top covered with a wet rag. The 
tobacco is placed in a common tobacco 
pipe.— H. G. 
Amaryllis for Texas.—Please tell 
me which of the Amaryllis, if any, you 
think would be hardy here.— Texas. 
We should suppose that all the species 
and varieties of Amaryllis would be 
perfectly hardy in Texas — at least in 
those parts of the State where the 
ground dues not freeze more than two 
or three inches deep; and even then a 
slight covering with grass or leaves 
would be amply sufficient protection 
against frost. Of course, we only guess 
at all this, from what we know of the 
Amaryllis tribe. If we lived in Texas 
Plants for Name. — We oannot 
recognise the plants scut by Anna 
Rochester of Kentucky, except No. 1, 
which is Euonymus Japonica — a 
handsome evergreen shrub, sometimes 
called Japan or Chinese Box. If you 
can send flowers as well as leaves of 
the other plants, we can probably name 
them. But it Is rarely the oase that 
we can name a plant by the leaf alone. 
Send us the whole plant when you can. 
