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To equal quantities of the seed of White Dutch Clover, Italian Rye Grass, 

 Agrostis stolonifera, Poa pratensis, Poa trivialis, add double that of Festuca 

 ovina, F. tenuifolia, F. duriuscula and Anthoxanthum odoratum. The above 

 kinds, obtained pure, will form a beautiful faced lawn, and with little attention 

 may be kept as desired. — Conductor.] 



On Culti/re op Ixias. — You would confer a favour if you or any of your 

 correspondents will describe the most successful mode of cultivating the Ixia 

 tiibe in your next number. 



February 8th, 1841. Camellia. 



[An article will be given in our next. — Conductor.] 



On Plants suited to bloom in a shadv situation. — Will you or one of your 

 readers kindly tell me what annuals or perennials flower best in the shade. 

 I wish to ornament a narrow border, in a very sheltered situation, but under the 

 shadow of a parapet wall, about two feet high. Is there any plant that would 

 trait on the ground, and cover a large space at the end of this border, in the same 

 way that Nasturtiums flourish ? Convolvulus minor will not blow there. 



An early answer would greatly oblige one of your first subscribers. 



Bath, February 18th, 1841. 



On the Properties of the Flowers of Geraniums, &c, suited for exhi- 

 bitions. — Will some correspondent be good enousrh to state the principal points 

 in the flower of the Geranium, and how those different points are reckoned by 

 the judges at the shows ? I wish the same information regarding Calceolarias, 

 as I have nowhere any rules for determining the preference of different plants. 



Scotus. 



On Soil of a Flower Garden, &c. — On reading over your very useful and 

 interesting Cabinet, to which I have but recently become a subscriber; for 

 I have been able to perceive the most laudable inclination on your part to render 

 any service in directing and counselling the untaught applicant, and am there- 

 fore induced to trouble you with a few questions which, although of the most 

 simple character, are highly necessary. In the first place, allow me to inform 

 you that I have a garden which I wish entirely to devote to Flora. It has a 

 south aspect, having the house on the north and a high wall on the west. The 

 soil is rather of a light and sandy nature ; I should therefore be glad if you 

 could direct me as to whether such a soil is suitable for the growth of flowers, 

 or whether any mixture,'and what, would be necessary to their successful growth. 

 In the next place, I should be glad to know whether there be any and what 

 means for preserving Pansies, Pinks, Carnations, Fuchsias, Calceolarias, and 

 such like plants, during winter, other than by a heated greenhouse, or pits 

 heated with fire. Replies to the foregoing, and any necessary information, will 

 greatly oblige 



February 1st, 1841. J. W., Kington. 



[A mixture of fresh strongish loam and well-rotted hot-bed dung, dug in with 

 the soil of the garden, would make it suitable for the purposes named. The 

 plants of a flower garden always do best when a portion of fresh loam is annually 

 added, and as much manure or rotten-leaf mould as the particular plant requires, 

 the latter varying. 



Any of the plants named, and similar ones, as Lobelias, Salvias, &c, may be 

 properly preserved, through winter, in a dry pit-frame. That portion of it 

 above ground should have a turf bank, sand, or something of that kind, laid 

 against it, at least a foot thick, to protect more certainly in severe frost. — Con- 

 ductor.] 



On Bi.oomino Crowea saliona. — I take the liberty of requesting that you, or 

 any of your numerous correspondents, will have the goodness to inform me, 



