Ageratum

• “The Ageratum is a lovely plant for a low bed, with its great masses of soft lavender flowers.”

  Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover

• “Bowers (1976) discovered that extracts from the plant Ageratum houstonianum cause premature metamorphosis in some Hemiptera.”

  Chapter 6

• “En el programa de investigaciones en plantas medicinales, los autores estudiaron la accin nalgesica del t de Mentrasto (Ageratum Conizoides L.) en Cincuenta pacientes con artrosis clnica y radiological de la rodilla, muslofemural, manos y columna cervical.”

  Chapter 9

• “Here it was a Deutzia, with starry cup-like blossoms; there a Spiræa, with spikes of milk-white plumes; here sprays of creamy Lantanas, and yonder clusters of tasselled Ageratum.”

  Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly

• “Ageratum, candytuft and dwarf nasturtiums are good for the purpose.”

  The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.

• “_Ageratum_ -- Valuable for its bright blue flowers and dwarf growth, going in well with other plants.”

  Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse

• “Other dwarfs are recorded to have sprung from species in the same sudden and unexpected manner, as for instance _Ageratum coeruleum_ of the same nursery, further _Clematis Viticella nana_ and _Acer campestre nanum_.”

  Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

• “Fancy poor Ophelia prattling to Laertes about the wreath she had woven; instead of her "rosemary," and "pansies," and "herb-o'grace," hear her discourse about "Plantanthera Blepharoglottis, or Psycodes, Ageratum, Syntheris, Houghtoniana, Banksia, and Jeffersonia.”

  Rural Hours

• “Ageratum is lovely for edging beds of pink Geraniums, its soft lavender tones being in perfect harmony with their color.”

  Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover

• “Coleus or golden Pansies as an edging, these colors contrasting exquisitely with the dainty lavender-blue of the Ageratum.”

  Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover

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