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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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showing', if the pots are well filled with 
roots, a weekly watering with liquid ma¬ 
nure will be an advantage. 
2. The Lamarque rose, a beautiful 
$\lj Noisette variety, with large, white flow- 
ers shading to sulphur in the center, is 
a desirable climber in a cool greenhouse. 
Several of the Passionflowers, Passiflora 
ccerulea, blue, P. incarnata, pink, and 
Tacsonia Van Volxemii, crimspn, are de¬ 
sirable. The last is a very beautiful 
plant, with abundant deep green foliage 
and very showy flowers. 
Ipomcea Pandurata. 
CarryingOverPrimulas; Forget-me-nots 
J. K., Long Island. —1. Can primulas which 
have just finished blooming for their first season 
be kept over for blooming next year ? 2. What 
treatment do forget-me-nots need ? I have some 
small plants, but all the leaves around the bot¬ 
tom are dying off. These plants are about eight 
or nine months old. They have been kept very 
cool—say, 40 to 55 degrees, F. They have been 
watered once a day, are potted and have not 
been kept in the sun. 
Ans. —1. Nothing is gained by carry¬ 
ing primulas over for another season. 
The plants are very likely to become 
infested with red spider during hot 
weather, and they are usually ragged- 
looking, yellow-leaved specimens just 
when you want to make a good show. 
Sow the latter part of May for early 
winter-blooming primulas, and about 
September 1 for Easter plants. The 
second sowing will give the best re¬ 
sults, because these plants dislike warm 
weather. 2. The general treatment for 
the forget-me-not is the same as for 
violets and pansies. Your temperature 
would appear to be right, but if their 
position is very shady they may have 
been overwatered, in spite of their 
liking for moisture, and this would 
cause a blight of the lower leaves. See 
that they get a good circulation of air, 
and don’t be afraid of a little sun. From 
now on they would be better suited by 
a cold frame than a greenhouse. 
Ipomcea Pandurata from Seed. 
IV. 0. D., Bellville, 0.— Where can seeds of this 
plant be obtained ? Some time ago it was men¬ 
tioned in another publication as a very beautiful 
and desirable climber; “propagation effected by 
seeds.” Prof. Bailey, in The Nursery Book, says 
of it, “ Propagated by root cuttings,” and two 
catalogues that I have offer plants or tubers, but 
in no catalogue at hand can I find seeds of this 
plant offered. The writer quoted above says: 
“ For the benefit of those who do not care to go to 
the trouble of raising plants from seed, good 
strong tubers could be obtained.” But what I 
would like would be “to go to the trouble” if I 
knew where to get the seed. 
Ans. —We do not know of any seeds¬ 
man offering this seed, though the 
tuberous roots are often advertised. If 
W. G. D. desires to experiment with the 
seeds why not buy tubers and save seed 
from these plants ? 
Cosmos; Vines for a Cool Greenhouse. 
II. C. C., Miles, C'onn. — 1. When should cosmos 
seed be started to insure plants that will bloom 
before frosts catch them in the fall ? 2. What 
vines will succeed in a rather cool greenhouse 
during the winter ? 
Ans. —1. Sow the cosmos in April or 
May; earlier sowing gains nothing m 
earliness of bloom. Then pot the young 
plants in 8 or 10-inch pots, and plunge 
the pots up to the rim in the ground, in 
some open, sunny place. Be sure to lift 
up the pots once a week, so as to break 
any roots that may straggle through the 
bottom. This plan cramps the root 
growth, and induces earlier blooming 
than when unrestricted. Treat the 
plants liberally, and pinch the outer 
shoots off until the end of J uly, to make 
a neat, compact growth. Plants thus 
treated bloom earlier than those in the 
L. 11. II., Newark, N. Y.— Will tbe hardy Moon- 
flower (Ipomcea pandurata) if used as a wall 
cover, become a nuisance by spreading in a 
lawn, or by sending out too many of its tuber¬ 
ous roots ? 
Ans. —We don’t think there is much 
danger of this. It has a tendency to 
bury the tubers deeper each year, until, 
in an old plant, it is almost a mining 
operation to dig them out. But, although 
the vine itself spreads widely, the tubers 
seem to stay pretty much in one place. 
We hardly understand how L. R. B. will 
use this vine as a wall-cover ; it must 
have something to twine upon, like a 
Morning-glory. It produces a fine effect 
when allowed to ramble up into the 
branches of a deciduous tree. 
Ridding Plants of Aphides. 
E. S. II., Harwinton, Cona.-How can I clean 
plants from plant-lice ? I have tried insect pow¬ 
der and cut tobacco stems on the earth unsuc¬ 
cessfully; my freesias and a Rose geranium are 
badly infested. 
Ans. —Spray your plants thoroughly 
with strong, clear tobacco tea, made 
from the stems. Fumigating with to¬ 
bacco smoke would be all right for the 
Rose geranium, but would not be ad¬ 
visable for the freesias if they are in 
bloom. Vaporized tobacco extract is 
another good thing, and is less likely to 
injure tender leaves or flowers than the 
smoke. Where there are merely a few 
house plants, tobacco stems laid on the 
pots are not likely to be very efficacious, 
because there are not enough of them to 
permeate the atmosphere ; it is different 
in a greenhouse, where they are laid all 
over the benches and the heating pipes. 
Tobacco dust, sprinkled over the infested 
portion of the plants, is efficacious but 
unsightly. Tobacco in some form is 
always the best cure for aphides. 
Aphides on Honeysuckle. 
IF. A. K., Columbus, O.—ls there any possible 
way of completely conquering aphides on the 
honeysuckle ? Our vines, about our veranda, 
will have to be removed unless these pests can 
be exterminated. They infest the growing buds, 
and are so enfolded that it is quite out of the 
question to accomplish anything with spraying. 
Ans. —Mulch the ground well with to¬ 
bacco stems, and begin spraying in 
early spring with kerosene emulsion. If 
the spraying begin before the leaf un¬ 
folds, you should gain mastery over the 
insects. To make the emulsion, dissolve 
one quart of soft soap in two quarts of 
boiling water. While still boiling hot, 
add one pint of kerosene, and churn the 
substances together with a syringe or 
small pump. Dilute with an equal pro¬ 
portion of water. The florists always 
use whale-oil soap in their kerosene 
emulsion, and also in soap-washes for 
plants. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
The Marguerite centaurea is a very 
attractive annual, a near relative of the 
Sweet Sultan. The feathery flowers 
are either pure white or pale mauve. 
This plant is much grown by florists for 
cut flowers. 
open border, and, if desired, when frost 
comes some of the pots may be lifted 
and taken into a cool room, where they 
will continue to bloom for some time. 
In August, or when the flower buds are 
Early planting is the great secret of 
MOTHERS .—Be sure to use “ Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It ia the Beat — Adv. 
good sweet peas, and the seed should be 
in the ground the first bright day that 
the earth can be worked. In this lati¬ 
tude the second or third week in March 
is a good time, so it will be well to de¬ 
cide on seed and location without delay. 
From the 15th to the 20th of March is 
a good time to sow most of the summer 
annuals that are started under glass, 
including asters, Ten-week stocks, Phlox 
Drummondi, etc. The florists sow these 
in flats—shallow wooden boxes contain¬ 
ing about two inches of soil—and place 
in a temperature of 50 degrees. As soon 
as large enough to handle, the little 
plants are transplanted into flats con¬ 
taining three inches of soil, being put 
about one inch apart. These flats are 
put in a cold frame or mild hotbed, 
where they do much better than in a 
greenhouse. 
Petunias of improved type occupy a 
prominent position in most of the cata¬ 
logues. The Californian fringed and 
ruffled forms are an extraordinary im¬ 
provement over the older type, quite as 
much in richness of color as in form. 
Florists who raise petunias for sale 
rarely buy seed of the singles, because 
they seldom get more than 20 per cent 
of doubles from seed; but the single 
remainder is much better in color and 
form than when grown from single seed. 
A double petunia can only be propa¬ 
gated with absolute certainty from cut¬ 
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