42 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART 111. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 

 On first Rate Properties of Calceolarias. — As I intend to raise new 

 varieties of tbe Calceolaria, I would be much obliged to any of your Corre- 

 spondents to state in tbe Cabinet, the points which are principally attended 

 to by the judges on deciding on the merits of the Calceolarias produced at 

 the different shows in the South, and how much they reckon, on the form, 

 the colours, and the size of the flowers, respectively. Scorus. 



On the Chrysanthemum. — I have in my conservatory a white Chrysan- 

 themum, quilled, and very double ; upon one branch there is a flower differ- 

 ent from the rest, having two or three rows of the outside petals quite pink. 

 1 have also another plant of large pink clusters, having upon its branches 

 flowers nearly perfectly white. I was at first inclined to think that this 

 might be owing to the age of the flowers ; but I find that other flowers of the 

 same age do not assume the same colour. If I were to cut off these bran- 

 ches and strike them in a hot bed, I should be glad to learn whether it 

 is probable they would give out tlowers of the same sort, or return to that 

 of the native stem ? 



(We have found in some instances that a distinction has been retained, 

 and in others where they have returned to the original. It is worth 

 trying !— Conductor. 

 In Mr. Freestone's method of saving the seed of this flower iu last year's 

 Vol. p. 220, he says, " Take the pollen from any of the same double flowers 

 aud apply it to the stigma of the two outside rows of Petals." Does he mean 

 to the outside rows of a semi-double flower, or to any double (lower? 

 (To any. — Conductor) Tillingtoniensis 



ANSWER. 



On raising Dahlias with variegated Flowers. — Answer toC. Nevill'a 

 Query on the Dahlia, iu the Cabinet of January 1837. 1 tried the experi- 

 ment here meutioned, applying the roots to the King of the Whites, and of 

 Lady Fitzharris, the first a pure white, and the other a bright scarlet flower, 

 they were applied together before being planted, and planted in the usual 

 way. There was only a single flower which came to perfection, and which 

 was very large, but had the colour of Lady Fitzharris alone. I attributed 

 the size of the flower to the additional nourishment obtained from the roots, 

 but as Lady Fitzharris is naturally a large flower, I now incline to doubt this. 

 I did not get any seed from the flower, as the frost came on early that sea- 

 son. As my object was the obtaining Dahlias with variegated flowers, I am 

 now satisfied it would be more quickly obtained by impregnating the stigma 

 of one with the pollen of others. I have not repealed the experiment. When 

 the roots of the two Dahlias were taken up at the end of the season, the 

 root of the Kiog of the Whites was perfectly wasted, that of Lady Fitzhar- 

 ris quite fresh. Scorus. 



REMARKS. 

 On Rosa IIibernica — Iu your last number, you make a quotation from 

 Mr. Gore's Rose Fancier's Manual, which contains one translated fftm a 

 French author whom you characterize as having published the best account 

 of Roses, who after depreciating Mr. Templeton's discovery of the Rosa Hi- 

 bernica, there states, that it is the same with Rosa canina aud R. Spinosis- 



