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now and again throughout their period of 
growth to see that neither greenfly nor 
scale has effected a lodging upon them, 
and if so means should be adopted to exter¬ 
minate the pest. Vine leaves or stems having 
scale or green fly upon them should be 
washed in the manner described above un¬ 
der the heading of “ Camellia with Black 
Smut on the Leaves.” You should also 
make a point of removing as many plants 
from under the Vine during summer as you 
possibly can. Those things like the Violet 
should be planted out in good ground to 
make fresh growth, and the greenhouse 
shrubs that have finished flowering and 
have made growth or partly so could then 
be placed out of doors on a bed of ashes to 
complete their growth and ripen the wood. 
If this cannot be done then the more valu¬ 
able of the plants should be placed in a 
part of the greenhouse not under the Vines, 
or else the latter should be kept thoroughly 
inspected and cleaned from time to time. 
COLD FRAMES. 
2102. Cuttings in Box or the Ground. 
I should feel greatly obliged if you will 
kindly tell me if I can put cuttings straight 
into the ground under a frame which has 
a south aspect for the winter, or must they 
be in pots under a frame? (H. P. C., 
Middlesex.) 
Your question would have been easy to 
answer if you had told us what cuttings 
you intend to put into the frame. As it is 
we can only say that such things as Pansies 
and Violas may be dibbled into prepared 
soil in the ground and covered with a 
frame, but if the cuttings are of Pelargo¬ 
niums we should say no. They must be put 
in pots or boxes, covered with a frame and 
rooted, then shifted into a greenhouse from 
which frost is excluded for the winter. 
There are plants, however, of varying de¬ 
grees of hardiness, and unless you tell us 
what cuttings you intend to take we cannot 
be precise. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
2103. Geraniums Mot Flowering. 
About the end of May I got some Gera¬ 
niums which were said to be good flowering 
kinds. Amongst them were H. Jacoby, 
King of Denmark, Raspail, and Queen of 
the Belgians, but neither of them have 
flowered well, although they have made 
vigorous growth and seem healthy. Can 
you give me any reason for this? (Gera¬ 
nium, Middlesex.) 
We are afraid your complaint is a pretty 
general one this season, because Geraniums 
are flowers that love the sun, and come from 
Africa where they get plenty of it. Plenty 
of rain will make them grow in the summer 
time, but unless they have got a good pro¬ 
portion of sunshine the flowers are certain 
to be scanty. It would be well to plan 
bedding with subjects that are more cer¬ 
tain to succeed in any season in our climate 
and transfer the Geraniums, that is Pelar¬ 
goniums, to the greenhouse, which is their 
proper place in the garden. 
2104. Tuberous Begonias Not Flower¬ 
ing. 
I potted three dozen tuberous Begonias 
last May, planted them out in a sunny posi¬ 
tion in a well dug and manured bed, but 
they never did any good, many of them 
being yet quite small, with poor flowers. 
Has the wet season been against them, and 
will they be of any use next year? Even 
yet the surface of the bed is only half 
covered. 'S. Brooks, Herts.) 
If your plants have covered half the bed 
with the leaves we presume they will make 
much better growth by the beginning of Sep¬ 
tember, and probably will flower fairly well 
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STOVE AND GREENHOUSE. 
099 . Camellia with Black Smut on 
Leaves. 
I have a large Camellia in. the greenhouse 
hich is covered all over with black smut, 
an you tell me what this is, and what I 
.n do to get rid of it? The leaves look 
■ry unsightly. There was a little of it last 
:ar, but I washed it off, and now it is worse 
an ever. (L. C. D., Leicestershire.) 
The black material on the Camellia 
aves is due to the presence of a fungus 
amed Meliola Camelliae, but this again is 
ie to the presence of aphides or more 
kely to scale either upon the Camellia it- 
■lf or upon some neighbouring plants, 
oth these classes of insects deposit a sweet 
cretion, sometimes called honeydew, and 
lis falls upon the leaves, making them ap- 
jar slimy with a sticky liquid, clear at 
rst, but afterwards becoming black when 
lis fungus has grown upon it for some 
me. Your chief attention should be devoted 
> getting rid of the insects, and the fungus 
ill then have nothing to live upon. Ex¬ 
mine the Camellia and also any neighbour- 
lg plant for the presence of brown scale, 
ther upon the leaves or twigs of the plants, 
ihen discovered proceed to have the plants 
ashed by means of a sponge dipped in an 
lsecticide. A safe and reliable one for this 
ass of plant enemy would be 2 ozs. to 4 ozs. 
f soft soap or ordinary bar soap dissolved 
h a gallon of hot water. The 2 ozs. would 
sally be quite effective provided the plants 
re thoroughly sponged, the water being 
sed while it is still quite warm. It will be 
ather a tedious operation if you have many 
saves or twigs to go over, but when once 
ou get the plants really clean the trouble 
dll disappear for at least a twelvemonth, 
nd on future occasions you can keep your 
ye upon the plants concerned so that the 
nsects never get established. There will 
hen be no black material on the leaves. 
1100. Genista Turning: Yellow. 
Can you tell me what is the matter with 
ny Genista (leaf enclosed). Last spring it 
vas a beautiful sight with flowers. I was 
old to cut it back after flowering, which I 
1 lid, and it commenced to grow away nicely, 
put after a time the young leaves began to 
urn yellow and the shoots now look stunted. 
M. Collins, Hunts.) 
You must have been keeping your plants 
n rather a dry situation, perhaps a draughty 
one at the same time, and thus have en- - 
ouraged red spider. A cold frame would 
! lave been a good situation for the plant 
if stood upon ashes, as the moisture arising 
therefrom would have been beneficial to the 
plant and to the disadvantage of the red 
spider. An occasional syringing with clean 
water or even a syringing every day in fine 
weather would have been of great service 
in keeping the plant clean. As it is, you 
will now have to take remedial measures by 
syringing the whole plant, being particular 
to have the under surface of the leaves well 
watered with the insecticide. This may con¬ 
sist of one or two ounces of soft soap to the 
gallon of water, with the addition of a 
little flowers of sulphur. While the plant is 
being syringed keep the solution-well stirred, 
so that the sulphur will be equally distri¬ 
buted through the water, and therefore come 
in contact with the whole of the foliage. 
After treating it in this way it should be 
put back in the greenhouse or cold frame 
and the operation of syringing repeated on 
the following night. This should do much 
to eradicate the pest, and even if your plant 
does not recover itself this season it should 
be got into a healthy condition ready to 
make good progress next year. In a cold 
frame, however, it should still make fresh 
growth before the end of September. If it 
makes fairly good growth during this month 
you should then stand it out of doors to 
ripen its wood. 
2101. Plants Under a Vine. 
Will you please tell me what is wrong 
with my plants in greenhouse under a Grape 
Vine, as so many of the leaves have gone 
like this one enclosed, and will you please 
tell me a remedy? (Hawes.) 
The leaf you sent was that of a Violet, 
which should not be in a greenhouse at this 
season of the year. It really should have 
been planted out in the open ground any 
time from the beginning of April to the be¬ 
ginning of June after hardening it off. 
This is necessary to enable the plants to 
make fresh growth and good crowns that will 
flower in the following year. You do not 
say what other plants you have under the 
Vines, but we may here remind you that, 
although it is pleasant to have a Vine, it is 
always the cause of a great amount of 
trouble in a house that is filled with various 
other plants, unless very carefully 
managed. Some of the plants in the house, 
possibly the Vine itself, must have been at¬ 
tacked with colonies of greenfly, whioh ex¬ 
crete a clammy and sweet liquid from their 
honey-pores, and this falling on the leaves 
of plants beneath them encourage the 
growth of a fungus named Meliola. The 
Vines should be carefully examined every 
