. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. Ihave often seen green shoots on plants of LadyPlymouth-, in fact, we have several now thatseem to be identical with those of the Rasp,berry-leaved kind, P. Radula. One need saybut little about its culture, as a plant that hasheld its own for so many years, when so manyof its contemporaries, introduced about the same date, have disappeared, requires no special treat-ment. It is just the plant for the cottage win-dow, or to plant out in Summer in the little bor-der in front of the cottage.—E. Hohday in Garden. SCRAPS AND QUERIES. Echeverias.—Cap, Med
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. Ihave often seen green shoots on plants of LadyPlymouth-, in fact, we have several now thatseem to be identical with those of the Rasp,berry-leaved kind, P. Radula. One need saybut little about its culture, as a plant that hasheld its own for so many years, when so manyof its contemporaries, introduced about the same date, have disappeared, requires no special treat-ment. It is just the plant for the cottage win-dow, or to plant out in Summer in the little bor-der in front of the cottage.—E. Hohday in Garden. SCRAPS AND QUERIES. Echeverias.—Cap, Media, Pa., says: Willyou please give the botanical name of these tvvoleaves in your next issue of the GardenersMonthly, and to what family they belong? [These were all garden forms of Echeveriametallica.—Ed. G. M.] Stags Horn Fern.—J. S. R,, Chicago., Ills.,says . In walking with a friend through her con-servatory, our attention was directed to a fernwhich she said was The Stags Horn P^ern, butwhich I had always known as the Rabbits. PLATYCERIUM GRANDE. Foot. It has furry stems as thick as ones fin-ger, which grow over the .surface, and oftenhanging over the side of the pot, and branch asa stags horn might do, but I never heard itcalled by any other name than the RabbitsFoot Fern. Is this the right name, or is StagsHorn the correct one ? [It Is not easy to tell what fern our correspon-dent has in mind, but the description in no wayfits the true Stags Horn, or Elks Horn are two well known species under culture, 1879.] AND HORTICULTURISr. 235 one Platycerium alcicorno, and the otlier Platyce-riuin ijrande ; an ilhiftration of the hitter we givewith this.—Ed. G. M.] Daljiatian Insect Poavder.—G. B. B.,Hillsboi-o, Hit;hland Co., Ohio, says: YourMay number speaks of the Dalmatian InsectPowder. Can you tell me whether it is poi-sonous to human beings, so as to make its usein rooms occupied by children dangerous ? Also,wliere can it be obtained? We are greatlytrou
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