Jersey Notes. Remedy For Cabbage Worm

A friend who kept Guinea hens last season and allowed them to run in his cabbage patch says they kept the plants entirely free from worms.

Justicia Carnea

Justicia Carnea is a handsome stove plant, familiar to the older generation of gardeners, which has terminal spikes of beautiful deep flesh-pink flowers. This is a fine addition to the sub-tropical garden. Experiments are constantly increasing the number of stove plants which bear out-door use during the summer. There are a good many showy Justicias, which could doubtless be used in sub-tropical bedding. These plants belong to the Acanthaceae.

Keeping Qualities Of Pike's Peak Squash

Your correspondent, in the January Garden, page 58, thinks Pike's Peak Squash a poor keeper. I have kept them in a pile of 75 to 100 tons in a common cellar, sound and without the slightest deterioration, - but really improving in flavor - until April 1. With me, for six years, it has been a better keeper than Hubbard or Marblehead. - T: B. Van Orman.

Kenilworth Ivy. M. H

No ; this is not any ivy, neither is it in anyway related to the ivies. Its botanical name is Linaria Cymbalaria ; it is also known as the mother of thousands. It is a most desirable perennial climber or creeper, and for hanging baskets it has no superior among trailing plants. There are several sports from this species with variegated foliage ; whether they will grow as vigorously, or whether they can be propagated from seed, which is produced freely, has not yet been tested. From what we have seen we are inclined to think the sports lack vitality.

Kentia Forsteriana. J. T. T

You should have but little difficulty growing this plant. In the summer it needs plenty of water, both at root and top. It is apt to be troubled by the red spider or thrip, in which case soapy water will be found efficacious.

Lady Washington Geraniums. L. B. H

This variety is no longer in existence. The general opinion is that the name is specific, or applied to a class, which is a mistake. The name was given to a variety of the fancy pelargonium, so long ago that it has been lost sight of, and the variety has had to give place to others far more beautiful.

The Larger Grape-Leaf Hopper

The interesting insect, represented somewhat enlarged in the engraving frequently puzzles grape growers by its peculiar appearance and habits. It is a cylindrical jumping insect about half an inch long, slate-blue or gray above and reddish-yellow beneath. It is known to entomologists as Oncometopia undata. It lays its eggs in single rows in the wood of the canes, and is said not only to attack the leaves, but also to puncture with its beak the stems of bunches of grapes, causing them to fall to the ground. "Sometimes it pumps out the sap so vigorously from the succulent branches that the drops fall in quick succession from its body." - C. M. W.

The Largest Orchid Known

The plant was found growing on a Dario tree, at Felangas, Malaysia. After being detached it required fifteen men to carry it. This orchid is seven feet two inches in height, and thirteen feet six inches in diameter; it has seven clusters of flowers, the longest measuring eight feet six inches. The flowers are deep brown, spotted with yellow. - M. de Keyser, in The Gardeners Chronicle.