MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 191 



more generally advertised and made known. Should my suggestion be adopted, 

 KJEKSw that I have, in ever so small a degree, helped to rev.ve a de- 

 sire to cultivate one of the choicest beauties of nature. ^ ^^^ 

 , Lewes, June 1, 1841. 



On Fuchsia Corymbivlora—I should be obliged if one of the numerous 

 readers ot your Cabinet would give an article on the whole culture ot the fuchsia 



'TSJS^-S^lS^ consider a W ««„«, not bavin, beard 

 ofaoXnSiLtoit; I allude to the spike of flowers on the orange hly so 

 common hf our gardens grown to a compact circular head, nine inches m d.a- 

 m of flowersV the usual size so closely placed that seventy flowers were 

 landed on four inches of the top of the stalk, which was flat and an inch and 

 a half in width, and covered with numerous small, lanceolate leaves, the whole 

 faming a bouquet which would be a showy object in our gardens, it general 

 July 6, 1841. «.¥».** 



P.S.-Is the inclosed the real and genuine « Phlox Drummondn P-[Yes. 

 Conductor.] 



On Superb Pans.es.-As a subscriber to your valuable Cabinet, I beg the 



hl Being destuf of n^aSn^ny collection of Pansies, and not having time to 



visit aU th Pansy growers in England, and having been repeated^ deceived by 



resentations gfven, I should be glad if those individuals possessing first-rate 



flowem fa mS wonla forward me blooms by post, p aced between damp moss 



in a card-case; I would immediately correspond with the parties. 



I have beard of a very superb kind shown at Manchester, named the Jolly 



Sailor ; any person forwarding me a bloom would much oblige. 



„ ,, „„„ +Q William Miller. 



Nurseryman, ltamsgate. 



REMARKS. 



St.ukinu from Leaves.-Iu the spring of 1838 previously to his leaving 

 Downton, unfortunately never to return, it occurred to Mr. Knight's inventive 

 mind, that plants might be propagated from single buds and leaves only. Ac- 

 corimelv, be had several pots filled with a fine sandy loam ; the pots were about 

 twelve inches in diameter, to receive the cuttings, which he prepared himself. 

 The buds and leaves were cut out, as is usually done when intended for inser- 

 tion in stocks, with but a very small portion of the alburnum to each. The 

 kinds that he operated upon were, Double Camellias, Magnolias, . Metrosiceros, 

 Acacias, Neriums, Rhododendrons, and many others. I he soil in the pots 

 having been previously pressed firmly down, and the surface made perfectly 

 smooth, the cuttings were inserted with a dibber, so as just to cover the bud, 

 when the soil was pressed firmly against it. The back of he leaf, lying on the 

 surface of the mould, was fed by absorbing moisture from it. The surface oi the 

 Jots was quite covered with leaves, but so disposed that they did not overlap 

 each other ; they were then gently sprinkled with water, covered with bell- 

 'da set and placed on the flue of a forcing-house. The sprinkling was after- 

 wards Venue, tlv repeated, and the glasses shaded from the sun by hanging 

 paper ove them. In a short time the buds were seen breaking through the 

 tace of the mould, and by the end of summer some of them had made shoots 

 Z and eight inches long, especially the Camellias, which were then potted off. 

 The Other!, that had not mad, equal progress, remained as they were until the 

 fofi.bg spring, when they likewise were potted and found to be firmly rooted. 

 Since that tim/l have tried other sorts with equal success; but, perhaps plants 

 that have huge leaves are best adapted for this mode ot culture.-,*. Lauder, 

 Dow ton Cattle, Gardener 1 ! Chun.) 



