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Begonia papillosa. Native country not known. It has bloomed in the 

 London Horticultural Society's Garden, where it had sprung up, it is judged in 

 some imported soil. The leaves are broad, flowers white, handsome. 



Lai-age horjefolia. This fine species has bloomed with Messrs. Pince and 

 Co., Exeter. The plant, when in bloom, is loaded with blossoms of a dull 

 yellowish-orange, the standard stained with purple. It is a greenhouse, shrubby 

 plant, of the pea flowered tribe, closely allied to the Pultensea. 



Pulten^ea brachytropis. From New Holland. It has something of the 

 habit of Chorozema Dicksoni, but the flowers grow in heads, and are of a pale 

 orange. Seeds of this pretty plant were sent by a lady to Captain James 

 Mangles, R.N. 



Stylidium prolifeuum. From the Swan River. An herbaceous plant, with 

 red branching stems and small pink flowers, and when in bloom is very pretty. 

 It appears to be annual. It has been raised by Messrs. Veitches, of Exeter, 

 who also raised Stylidium pilosum, from the same country. The flowers are 

 of a pale pink, exceedingly pretty when in perfection, but of short duration. 



Oxyi.obium capitatum. From the Swan River. A greenhouse plant, which 

 has bloomed in the fine collection of Robert Mangles, Esq., Sunning Hill, 

 Berks. The flowers are produced on short stalked heads ; they are yellow and 

 brown. 



Zichya villosa. From the Swan River. It has bloomed with Mr. Standish, 

 at Bagshot Nursery. The flowers are small, of a bright vermilion, tinged 

 with violet ; very pretty. 



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QUERIES. 



On a Dahlia Box. — Will you, or any of the contributors to your very valuable 

 publication, give in an early number an old subscriber a plan of a compact box 

 that would be best suited for carrying blooms, per coach, fifty or a hundred 

 miles ; also that if a box, made for carrying thirty-six blooms, could be arranged 

 so as only to take half of the above number, or twenty-four with as much safety 

 as the whole'? B. J. C. 



On Seedling Carnations, Dahlias, &c. — Perhaps some one of your nume- 

 rous readers would give me, through the medium of your excellent Cabinet, 

 the proper treatment of seedling Carnations from their infancy to their time of 

 blooming ; also the management of pot-roots of Dahlias during winter. 

 ■Durham, April 17, 1841. Philodahlia. 



On Epigea repens, — Can you or any of the numerous readers inform 

 me where 1 can get the rose-coloured Epigea repens ? I have the white, but 

 having seen the rose-coloured one figured in a work of Sweet's, viz.. The Flower 

 Garden, I feel desirous to have it. An early answer, by means of the Cabinet, 

 will very much oblige J. F. J. 



On the Scarlet-flowered Rhododendron. — Having obtained au answer 

 in the last number of your work the Cabinet, I take the liberty of again 

 troubling you with a question relative to the culture of the Scarlet Rhododendron 

 (Hybrid Arboreum), which I have had for some years in a tub, and which has 

 grown freely, but has not blossomed well with me. By some reader giving me 

 au early answer as to the best mode of treating it, it will much oblige 



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