44 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Plans for Conservatories, Greenhouses, &c. — Allow me to suggest to 

 you the utility of occasionally inserting in your numbers some plans for orna- 

 mental conservatories and greenhouses, together with the ground before.it, laid 

 out as a flower garden. If the elevation, dimensions and estimate for building, 

 accompanied the plan, no doubt but it would be most useful to many of your 

 well wishers, and of whom I happen to be one. R. 



Monday, 7th December. 



[We will attend to the subject our correspondent mentions, having some 

 plans ready. But as particular situations require accommodation, if we had 

 any guide of that, we could give our opinion and sketch suitable. No doubt 

 many of our readers may have constructions suited to peculiarities : if they 

 would furnish us with particulars of form by sketch, and how they succeed, 

 &c. &c, we should be much obliged, and the insertion of the plans would be 

 useful to persons about to erect, or desirous to alter the form of any existing 

 erections. — Conductor.] 



On Cact^ea. — Being an admirer of the succulent tribe of plants, and having 

 a small collection which consist principally of the Kpiphyllum, I am desirous 

 of adding a few of the melon-shaped Cactaea. If you would inform me through 

 the Cabinet where to obtain a few of the flowering kinds, and at what price, 

 you will greatly oblige A Subscriber. 



[Most of the public nurseries now possess a collection ; apply to such, and 

 description and price will easily be obtained. — Conductor.] 



On treatment of Lilium eximium, &c. — You will confer a favour on a con- 

 stant subscriber to your very useful book The Floricultural Cabinet, if you 

 can induce some practical gardener to write a few lines explanatory of the treat- 

 ment of a beautiful tribe ot ornamental plants, the new lilies, such asL. eximium, 

 longiflorum, punctatum, &c. Also of some Gladioluses, such as cardinalis, 

 floribundus, &c. There are years favourable to flowering ; again years occur in 

 this climate most unfavourable ; yet by good management this may, no doubt, 

 be counteracted. The soil, the time for planting, the time for rest, the degree 

 of excitement by artificial heat — whether some sorts may not succeed best in 

 open borders, and if so, should they be taken up at a season P Ail these are 

 points essential to a successful treatment, and not very much known in this 

 country. A few short directions would much oblige A Subscriber. 



On the Culture of Geraniums, and List of, &c. — Myself and a few friends 

 would be obliged to you, or some of your correspondents, if you will give us a 

 treatise on the geranium, so as to grow them as large as some of your corre- 

 spondents speak of, and please to name about a dozen sorts that will be likely 

 to come near the size, as I think now would be a good time to have the in- 

 formation, as we shall have the season before us. And what is the best time to 

 sow scarlet ten-week stocks to pot for blooming in the spring, as we see the 

 florists round London bloom them beautiful in forty-eight and thirty-two sized 

 pots. J. S. 



Chiselhurst, Kent, Dec. 16, 1840. 



[The November and December numbers of the last year contain two excellent 

 articles on their culture, one by a grower at a nursery, and the other by the first 

 rate amateur grower in the country. It is very likely the latter gentleman has a 

 peculiar treatment in getting his plants to such an extraordinary size. As he 



