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 1882

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

Chapter 6 1994

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 1991

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 Various

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

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

_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 1930

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 Hugo de Vries 1891

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 1887

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 1882

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 1882