MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



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Ccelogyne coronaria. — From India to the Chatsworth collection of Orchidea;. 

 It is a pretty species, with'pale greenish-yellow petals and sepals. The lip has 

 a yellow centre, and a beautiful streaked and spotted crimson edge. 



Eria bipunctata. — Another Orchidea from India to Chatsworth; it has the 

 flowers of a Liparia and foliage of an Eria so far as aspect goes. The flowers 

 are very diminutive, of a yellowish-white tipped with purple, and the labellum 

 with yellow. 



Pleurothallis riCTA.— An Orchidea from Mexico, with purple flowers. 



Oncidium Barkekii.— From Mexico to Mr. Barker's, Springfield, near Bir- 

 mingham. It is a fine species. The flowers are very large, lip of a clear pale 

 yellow, and rich brown spotted petals and sepals. Trie lip is an inch and a halt 

 across. The raceme is about a foot long, 



Oncidium nebulosum.— From Guatemala to the London Horticultural Society, 

 where it has bloomed. It is a fine species, having the appearance of O. reflexum. 

 The flowers are large, pale yellow, with faint spots of brown at the base ot the 

 lip and on the sepals and petals. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On pruning Roses.— As an Amateur Florist, and devoted to the Rose above 

 all other beauties of the garden, you would do me a most especial benefit and 

 iavour by giving apageor two in your Cabinet to the art of prumng Rose lYees, 

 now become almost a "craft or mystery ," by reason of the numerous plants ot 

 recent introduction. I have nearly killed some valuable sorts by pruning after 

 the old fashion. Mr. Rivers has bkirnmed the subject in his <* Guide, ' but much 

 more is wanted ; and let me entreat you, before the spring, to comply with my 

 seasonable request. 



Clapham, Nov. 18th, 1841. Otto. 



On Flower Beds for a Grass Plot. -Having a Grass Plot before the 

 drawing-room windows, the length of which is 45 yards, the breadth 30 yards, 1 

 am desirous of laying it out with flower-beds ; will you, or any ot your cor- 

 respondents, oblige me by giving me a plan for the same r 1 



Nov. 10th, 1841. A Six Years' Subscriber. 



ANSWERS. 



Trees to cover a Walt..— A " Constant Subscriber" asks for a list of hardy 

 and half-hardy Plants suitable for covering a wall. The following list is much 

 at the service of a " Constant Subscriber." 



Showy and rapid growing, well calculated for speedily covering the upper 

 part of a wall : — , ... 



1 Hardy.— Wistaria Coiwequana, Bignoma capreolata, recoma (Bigni 

 radicals. Lycium Afrnm, L. European.* Rosa Banksia, R. B. lutea. Clematis 

 florida flore pleno, C. flammula rotundifolia. . '. 



Half-hardy.— Kdwardsia grandiflora, Cobea scandena, Teceraa Australia 

 (Bignonia Pandora), Passiflora cosrulea, Calampelis scabra, Rhodochiton 

 bilt, Maurandya Barclayana, TropsBolutt tricolorum. 



Evergreen*.— Clematis pedicellata (cirrhosa). Capnfolium semperrtrens, Rosa 

 riempervirens. ,., , ., . 



Showy plants that will ultimately, but not SO speedily as the lull mentioned 



ones, reach the top of the wall: — 



