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be obliged by some information as to its management in the way of increase. 

 The nurseryman of whom I purchased it tells me it is difficult of striking owing 

 to its tubular stem. 



Sept. 24th, 1841. A Subscriber. 



[The plant usually produces suckers, if cut down early after blooming. If the 

 stems be cut off before the blossoms expand, and be cut into pieces, by cutting 

 horizontally through close under a joint, and leave a joint above the soil, such 

 cuttings, inserted in sandy loam or sandy peat, and put into a slight heat, will 

 very readily strike root.— Conductor.] 



Plants which will grow under the shade of Trees. — I have a bank of 

 large trees in my pleasure grounds which 1 am desirous of covering with some 

 dwarf plants that will flourish in the shade; 1 want to plant before winter, so that 

 an early answer will oblige. 



Herts, October 18, 1841. Lucy. 



Spurge Laurel; Daphne pontica ; the broad, narrow leaved, purple, and varie- 

 gated Periwinkles; Box may be kept as low as desired by pruning; Butchers' 

 Broom, and Alexandrian Laurel; the common Laurel kept pruned down; the 

 Holly so pruned, — we have seen both attended to so as to become like horizontal 

 growing plants ; Rhododendron ponticum and maximum, where a free admission 

 of air draws under the trees; several of the Berberis's, as the holly leaved, but 

 they are too dear to plant to a great extent as yet ; Lauristinus, if there be a 

 free current of air. Several Vacciniums do well ami fruit freely; Irish Ivy 

 covers rapidly and is easily prevented ascending the trees. The above are ever- 

 green, and make a permanent green covering. For a very dwarf and most rapid 

 cover the large broad-leaved Periwinkle and Irish Ivy are the best. Near to 

 the margin of a walk it would give a pretty relief to have a few flowers which 

 flower in such situations, such as Arabis giandiflora, white ; Hound's Tongue, 

 blue ; Double White Wood Anemone, Lily of the Valley, Winter Aconite, the 

 various Primroses, Single Hyacinths, Squills, Wood Sorrel. 



On Trellises. — You, or some correspondent, would confer a great favour on 

 many of your distant friends by describing and figuring the various sorts of 

 trellises most suitable for climbing plants when grown in pots. The sort of ma- 

 terial and mode of attaching the trellis to the pot should be mentioned, so that a 

 workman may be able to constiuct them. Climbing plants are now attracting 

 the attention they deserve, and yet of all others they are the most awkward in 

 the hands of an amateur. Flora. 



ANSWERS. 



On Priory Queen Pelargonium. — In answer to a question asked by C. W. F. 

 in the present October Number of the Cabinet, I beg to say the Pelargonium, 

 called the Priory Queen, was, I believe, raised by Mr. Bassett at the Priory, 

 Bodmin, in Cornwall, and sold to Messrs. Pince and Co., of Exeter, by whom it 

 was sent out. 



Oct. 18th, 1841. Ajax. 



On the Double Yellow Rose. — Your wishing for all information respecting 

 the Double Yellow Rose, I herewith send you a description of one in the garden 

 at Albury Hall, Herts, where no kind of care or attention is paid to it beyond 

 cutting out the superabundant shoots in winter. It is planted against a north 

 wall, where it has gtood many years, and always blooms and expands its blos- 

 soms admirably every year. It is growing in a very still' loam, without manure 

 ever being applied to it. 



Oct. 0, 1841. Hi uts. 



