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flower. Again, Triomphe Royal and Heroine are the same flower, but in differ- 

 ent character. Likewise Roi de Lion and Roi de Congo are one flower. Many 

 of your correspondents' names are new to me. 



August 11, 1841. A Friend to Floriculture. 



On Treatment of Seedling Calceolarias. — One of the oldest Subscribers 

 to the Floricultural Cabinet takes the liberty of asking what is the best 

 mode of treating Seedling Calceolarias that were sown in March. They are now 

 fine plants, some of them have blown, and others are coming into bloom. Those 

 that have been out of doors seem to shoot into bloom more readily than those 

 that ha\e been under the cover of a greenhouse. He wishes to know how they 

 should now be treated — whether taken in, or left out for some time — and what soil 

 is best. He has grown them in a mixture of sea-sand, quite free from salt, and 

 coming from Bude, and leaf mould. Ought they not to be kept short of water P 

 The plants are small. 



On Michaelmas Asters, &c. — Wishing to increase my varieties of the autum- 

 nal flower, commonly called Michaelmas Daisy, I shall he glad to receive labelled 

 blossoms, with price, from any vender who in a penny letter would forward them 

 in a lozenge or other box, addressed S. S., 4, Butter Market, Reading, — which 

 cheap and easy mode of conveyance, I would suggest to nurserymen, might give 

 a great impetus to floriculture. Your insertion of this will greatly oblige 



A Constant Subscriber. 



On Petunia marginata prasina and Priory Queen Pelargonium. — I 

 wish to obtain Petunia marginata prasina ; I have applied to many nurserymen 

 but have not been able to procure one, perhaps some one of your numerous rea- 

 ders would inform me where such a plant could be obtained. 



In your catalogue of new pelargoniums, which you remarked on in your last 

 number, was one called " Priory Queen," universally admired ; perhaps some 

 one of your correspondents would inform me whether it was not raised by Mr. 

 Bassett, at the Priory, Bodmin, Cornwall. 



C. W. F. 



ANSWER. 



On a list of Carnations, Dahlia, Box, &c. — If your correspondent B. J. C. 

 lives at a great distance, so as to make it expensive to send a full sized show- 

 box, I could send him a very small model of one gratis, he paying for the 

 carriage of it. 



Being a young florist, and a subscriber to your Cabinet from its commence- 

 ment, and wishing to communicate with your correspondent, who has given a 

 very useful list of carnations. &c, in your June number of the present year, 

 and who signs his name, " Hannibal," I shall be much obliged if he, or you, 

 would favour me with his real name and address. [We hope our correspondent 

 Hannibal will oblige us with it. — Conductor.] 



I am glad to find that you are now beginning to give lists of the names 

 of the best plants, flowers, &c, at different exhibitions ; and if to this is added 

 the name and address of the grower or person from whom the sorts may be had, 

 so much the better, as such information, with the best mode of cultivation, 

 and general history of the plants, is what we most want in the country. 



In your June number. I also see a query on a dahlia box signed B. J. C. 

 Being a member of the Horticultural Society, at Shrewsbury, 1 have the op- 

 portunity of seeing several different show-boxes, and there is one sort which I 

 could particularly recommend, as perfect in every respect, for either dahlias, pinks, 

 or carnations, &c. One could be made to hold any number of blooms that may 

 be desired. It is rather a difficult matter to describe it so as to be clearly 

 understood, but if your correspondent likes to send me a glass, or stone-bottle, 

 of the size and sort used for exhibiting blooms in his neighbourhood, I would 

 get him a good box made, at a reasonable price, and send it to him per coach, or 



