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Ageratum Imperial Dwarf

This cannot be too highly recommended as a dwarf blue bedding plant. It is a really dwarf Ageratum, growing from 6 to 9 inches; of a capital branching habit and very fine blooming. A gentleman who has put out an edging of over twenty plants, mentioned it to me the other day in flattering terms. Since then I have seen it bedded out, and can bear testimony to the value of his recommendation. - R. R.

Agnes

The best thing you can do is to take what cuttings you can get, and lift the old plants before there is danger from frost. Old Geraniums flower best in moist localities.

Alexander

Shorten back your Vines to about 3 feet at once, and two days after dress the wounds with styptic, to prevent a chance of their bleeding. To cut down to the weak buds, under your circumstances, is not to be recommended. Your Vines should be left sufficiently long to reach to the top of the front-sash of your vinery.

Alfred Low

We have tried Speed's insect annihilator, and find its effects on mealy-bug, scale, and thrips, etc, to be exactly what is claimed for it. It is, moreover, so thoroughly safe an application, that to inexperienced amateurs especially it must prove invaluable; for it does not injure the tenderest plant when applied according to directions. The same we can also say of Speed's remedy for mildew, and its effects are instantaneous.

Allahandas

Will some of your correspondents kindly give us a chapter on Allamandas, especially the Allamanda cathartica, as we have plants here, both old and young, but neither flower as I think they ought? - E. W.

[Will any of our correspondents favour us with their experience? - Ed].

Amateur Horti

If you plunge your Geraniums in the beds in their pots in your hot dry soil, they will require a good watering twice a-week in dry summer weather. If this is attended to they will flower well enough, but will not cover as much ground as if planted-out, and consequently a greater number will be required for each bed. Write direct to Mr P. Grieve, Culford Hall, Bury St Edmunds, and he will send you his book on Zonale Pelargoniums. Six-inch pots would be better, and rich soil.

American Blight (A Perplexed One)

You have ample cause to be perplexed. Root the trees up and burn them; burn the soil in which they grew, add some fresh soil to it, and replant perfectly clean trees. Anxiety, labour, and cost will be saved thereby, and a better chance of a crop of fruit made probable.