116 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



On Echeveria gibbifiora, &c. — A subscriber and constant reader of the 

 Fi.oricultural Cabinet wishes to suggest, as an improvement in your notice of 

 " New or rare Plants," that they should a/umjs be described as annuals, bien- 

 nials, or perennials; also as hardy, half-hard}', greenhouse, or stove plants; 

 also it would afford much facility to your readers, if the name of the month were 

 inserted at the head of each page. The writer also would feel obliged by your 

 informing him the treatment required to bloom successfully the Lechenaultia 

 i'ormosa, as with him the flowers drop off, and the little branches wither and 

 die ; also what treatment and temperature is required to bloom the Echeveria 

 gibbifiora. Is it a greenhouse or stove plant ? 



February 13th, 1841. 



[We give the description of the plants as far as we possibly can ascertain 

 what they are. If we find that in any way we can further elucidate the par- 

 ticulars, we will do it. We saw some very splendid specimens of the Lechen- 

 aultia, in bloom, at the London exhibitions last season. We hope some of our 

 friends who exhibited them will give our correspondent the particulars of treat- 

 ment to grow the plant as desired. The Echeveria flourishes well in a warm 

 greenhouse, treated as succulents are. — Conductor.] 



On Liquid Manure i-or Pelargoniums. — In the excellent article on the 

 culture of Pelargoniums, in the November number of the Cabinet, contributed 

 by the " Foreman of a London Nursery," I observe that the occasional use of 

 liquid manure is strongly recommended for strengthening the growth of the 

 plants and heightening the colours. I wish to know how this preparation is 

 obtained. Is it extracted from horse-dung, or cow-dung ? and should the 

 manure be used fresh ? I am unwilling to trouble your valuable contributor in 

 giving an answer to what your professional readers may probably consider as 

 a very silly question; but I can get no information on the subject from my 

 gardening friends in the country, and I regard it as one of the great advantages 

 to be derived from your publication, that there is every desire to encourage the 

 efforts of mere tyros in this very delightful amusement. Will you also favour 

 me, in an early number, with a list of from twelve to twenty-four of the most 

 profuse blooming sorts, and also of the most vigorous habit, omitting the very 

 high-priced plants'? 



I observe that the young leaves on many of my plants are very much curled, 

 and the fibres of the leaves, on the under side, appear brown and corroded. The 

 green fly was in the house a short time since, but they are now quite extirpated, 

 and I cannot perceive traces of any other insect. Can you explain this? 



February, 1841. A Subscriber. 



[The injury the green fly then effected is only now being developed. As they 

 attack the very young leaves, by puncturing and extracting from them, the 

 more visible the injury as the leaves enlarge. The liquid may be made by we/l- 

 rotted manure being thrown into a tub or cistern, among water ; but where there 

 is a hot-bed, as for cucumbers, &c, a vessel should be sunk in a low situation, 

 so as to receive the drainings. Or such a provision being had near to a farm- 

 yard, where dung is retained for a length of time. Never use neiv manure for 

 the purpose. — Conductor] 



ANSWER. 



On a beautiful Lily, &c. — Observing that, in your February number, 

 you request information regarding the beautiful Lily which your Fulham cor- 

 respondent, A. A., observed in France, I may mention that the name he gives, 

 ' ' Lilium Mirocale,'' is evidently a corruption from the French word " Hemero- 

 calle," or the Italian "Emerocale," and that it is, as you suppose, one of the 

 day lilies (Hemerocallis). As it has a different botanical name in France from 

 what it has in this country, you will probably pardon me for giving the botanical 

 description from a French botanical work by M. Dumont Course!.* This will 



* Le Botaniste Cultivate™, Edit. 1802. 



