Our correspondent writes: "The above-named well-known Tricolor Pelargonium has been in my possession ever since it first came out, but it does not do well with me. Perhaps I may use an unsuitable soil, it seems so shy of making wood. Will you, or any of your correspondents, give me their mode of treatment of the above-named plant? I am afraid it will never make a bedder, as it grows so indifferently, at least in this part of the country." Our correspondent, however, does not name the locality in which he resides. We forwarded his letter to Mr W. R. Morris, the wellknown raiser and cultivator of variegated Zonal Tricolor Pelargoniums, and he writes as follows in reply thereto: "Lucy Grieve is one of the strongest and rankest growers we have among the Tricolors. A strong cutting, rooted any time between March and July, should in the following May be a plant 2 feet in height, with foliage-leaves 3 to 4 inches across. It should be planted from the cutting-pot at once into an 8-inch pot, well drained, and filled with rough pieces of light sandy turf, giving full allowance of light, air, and moisture; the same treatment suits the whole tribe. Stimulating with manure I find wholly unnecessary.

To grow a healthy plant well is easy, but to cure a sick plant is another matter, and is seldom worth the trouble. For the information of your correspondent, I give the following as my practice, and I never fail: - Wait till there is an appearance of growth, and consequent root-action, remove the plant from its pit, and place it in a pail of water. Keeping the roots under water, manipulate them till wholly free from soil; rinse the whole plant in clear water, and dip the roots while wet in dry silver-sand. The roots will, on being shaken well, disentangle themselves, and each fibre will have a coating of sand adhering to it. Re-pot in as small a pot as possible, using light sandy loam; sprinkle the foliage, but do not water till after a few days, and with a very gentle bottom heat the plant will, in a very short space of time, fill the pot with new roots: then re-pot. If your correspondent will disbulb a young growing plant, keeping it to one leading shoot till well established, he will soon alter his opinion as to the 'shy growing ' of Lucy Grieve".