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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



through the medium of your instinctive Magazine, v. hat is the 1 est method of 

 flowering the Crowca saligna, a plant of which I purchased some years ago, 

 having understood it to he a very free flowering plant. Since that time it has 

 always continued healthy, and growing vigorously, hut never offered to flower. 

 An early answer to the above will much oblige 



February 16th, 1841. A Constant Reader. 



On a successful Treatment of the Cyclamen Peksicu'm. — I should feel 

 greatly obliged by receiving, through the medium of your interesting work, a 

 few lemarks as to the best method of treating the Cyclamen Persicum, to which 

 I am very partial, hut have had success. I recollect, about five years since, 

 reading in one of your numbers the advice I now stand in need of. I remember 

 one particular was that they seeded freely under proper management ; that I 

 have not yet learnt. A Constant Header. 



ANSWERS. 

 A List of best Pinks. — The following is a list of 48 Pinks, the best that 

 have come under my observation ; and your correspondent, E. 14., will find, il 

 grown well, they will not easily be surpassed. 



11. II., Croydon. 



Omega (Unsworlh.) 

 Ladv Hallowell. 

 Blackheath Hero. 

 Lady Auckland (Knight.) 

 Coronation (Holmes. ) 

 Duchess Kent (Willmer.) 



„ (Smith.) 



President (Creed.) 

 Queen Victoria (Willmer. ) 

 Hon. Sir George Cook (Stevens.) 

 Conquerpr (Barrett.) 

 Miss Blackstone. 

 Rosannah (Church.) 

 Triumph (Church.) 

 William the Fourth (Foster.) 

 One in the Ring. 

 Emma (Harris.) 

 Defiance (Marshall.) 

 Prince Albert (Agate.) 

 Earl of Uxbridge ( Dry.) 

 Countess Stanhope. 

 Countess Plymouth. 

 Botley Hero. 

 Triumphant (Ibbetts.) 



Dry's No. 2. 

 Tom Davy. 



Wells's Superb. 



Britannia (Davy.) 



Diana (Ibbett.)" 



Lord Brougham. 



Earl of Cheltenham. 



Miss Jeans. 



Duke of Bedford (Coppin.) 



Victoria (Weeden.) 



Eliza (Agate.) 



Ion. 



Sir Robert Hines. 



Champion (Church.) 



Tiump (Clark, i 



Warden of Winchester. 



Rainbow (Nonis.) 



Duchess Cornwall (Bragg.) 



Beauty of Sydenham. 



Lady of the Lake (Hogg.) 



Sultana (Hodges.) 



George Kelson. 



Knight of Henley. 



Norman's Sir John. 



On a New Lily. — Probably the plant which your correspondent, A. A., in 

 this month's Number of the Fi.oricui.turai. Cabinet, mentions to have seen 

 growing in France, is the White Day Lily, Funkia subcordata, of Spiengel, as 

 named in Loudon's Hortus Britannicus, p. 126. It is of the natural order of 

 the Hemerocallidea? (Hexandria Monogynia of Linnaeus), and its synonyme 

 mentioned there is Hemerocallis Japonica of Willdenow In Sweet's Hortus 

 Britannicus, p. 409, it is mentioned under the name of Funkia alba, with the 

 synonymes of F. subcordata, Bprmgel's Systema Vegetabilivm, Iltmerocallis 

 Japonica of the Botanical Magazine (in which it is figured 1433), and Hemero- 

 callis alba of Andrews' Botanists' Bepository 75. In Loudon's work it is men- 

 tioned as an evcrgretn. herbaceous plant, perennial, ornamental, growing one 

 foot high, flowering in August and September, white, introduced from Japan in 

 17 90, increased by division of the root, and to be grown in peat and loam. Pos- 



