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Carlass, f. Bizarres, long cups, stained bottoms. 



Castrum Doloris, fl. Bennett's Bizare, fl. 



Charbonnier, fl. B l ac k Knight, fl. 



Charles the Tenth, f. Emperor Charles, f. 



Platoff, f. Invincible, f. 



Ivanhoe, fl. Osiris, fl. 



Leonatus Posthumus, fl g; r Thomas fl. 



Lord Milton, fl. Sans Rj va i/fl. 



Lustre, fl. Wolstenholme's Bizarre, fl. 

 Polyphemus, fl. 



Pompe Funebre, fl. Bizarres, long cups, pure bottoms. 



Optimus, f. ' " _ ' r 



Shakspeare, alias Catafalque Superieure, f. 



Garrick, fl. Surpasse Caledonian Hero, f. 



San Joe, both. Waterloo, f. 



ARTICLE V. 



REMARKS ON ANSWERS TO QUERIES. 



BY J. A., HARRABY, NEAR CARLISLE. 



I often see very important queries in your Cabinet, and I am sorry 

 to say that many such queries are never answered. Now I do not 

 know anything more disheartening to a new beginner than to find 

 his requests for information on practical points unattended to. Books 

 are all well enough in their way : but there are many little items of 

 horticultural knowledge which he that practises can alone give satis- 

 factory information about. My practice has not been great enough 

 hitherto for me to answer, with confidence, any of your correspondents' 

 queries, else I have had sufficient inclination to do so. Could you 

 not find time to give your answers to all queries that your correspon- 

 dents did not attempt to answer before you went to press ? If you 

 did so, you would make your Cabinet the most useful, because the 

 most practical, horticultural journal ever published. At the same 

 time, it would be still better if your readers would, as far as they 

 could, make a point of answering such queries; for there are many 

 little things which you might not have met with in your nursery 

 experience, but which a person cultivating only a few plants might 

 know well enough ; for instance, in your last number, a correspon- 

 dent states that the flowers of his Lechenaultia Formosa drop off, 

 and he asks for information as to its treatment. Now I dare say you 

 never found the flowers of the Lechenaultia to drop off; on the con- 

 trary, it will flower all the year with you, as it does with me; but if 

 it he removed from a greenhouse in an airy situation to a room in a 

 smoky town, the chances are that the flowers will drop off very soon 

 after its removal, and its branches begin to wither and die. Your 



