F

We know of no reason why Amaryllis Ackermanii should not do at the back wall of your greenhouse. It is a strong grower and very brilliant in colour. Take also the following: Brilliant, Holfordii, Johnsonii, Prince of Orange, Magnificent, and Regina.

F. F

Get some common blotting-paper and put the fronds between the leaves, allowing two leaves to be between each specimen. Then place the paper between two strong pieces of smooth board and put some weight on the top. Look at and turn the specimens every second day - and iron the paper to dry it - until the specimens are dry and stiff. In order to preserve the specimens get a herbarium book.

F. F. S

Sphagnum can be got on moorland boggy ground, but if you cannot get access to it in such places, nurserymen generally supply it to order.

F. G

Yes, certainly. Do not be backward; all reasonable questions we feel it to be our duty to attend to, to the best of our own ability.

F. G. S

Your Begonia seed may have been covered too deeply. We never cover at all. Seed saved from some varieties - such as Monarch, Kallistii, and Charles Raes - we have never been able to get to vegetate, while the seed was as carefully saved and otherwise treated as others that came up by the million.

F. S

Your Pampas Grass is starved. Give it plenty of good rich soil and water, and it will grow into a fine strong specimen and flower next year.

Ferns

Adiantum cuneatum, A. affine, Alsophila australis, A. excelsa, Cheil-anthes elegans, Davalia canariensis, Dicksonia antarctica, Gleichenia decarpa, Lomaria gibba, Pteris argyraea, P. cretica alba lineata, P. scaberula, P. longifolia.

Many of the British Ferns answer admirably.

Ficus

We hope to have space next month to give a paper read before the Royal Horticultural Society at Manchester, by Mr Barron of Chiswick, on the cultivation of Figs in pots, which will give you the best possible information on the subject. Mr Barron, on the same occasion, exhibited the most superb collection of Figs in pots, from the gardens of the Horticultural Society, that were ever seen in public.

Filix Femina

Mr Thomas Moore of Chelsea Botanic Gardens, who is one of the best authorities of the day on Ferns, has published a work that will suit you. Groombridge, we think, is the publisher.