MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 67 



PAKT III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



A List and Prices of the Best Kinds of Polyanthuses.— Will the 

 Editor, or some reader of the " Floricultural Cabinet," be kind enough to 

 give me a list of the names of the best prize Polyanthuses, also where they 

 are most likely to be obtained, and at what probable price. 



An Amateur, and Constant Reader of the Cabinet. 



London, Jan , 7th, 1839. 



On Watering Plants, &c. with Water from Metal or Cast Tron 

 Pipes. — Having a greenhouse as well as two houses for the cultivation of 

 Grapes, Pines, &c, and which are heated with hot water ; I should feel 

 obliged if you, or any of your numerous correspondents would answer the 

 following question. (Perhaps Mr. Thompson who has wrote a few such 

 valuable pages in the "Cabinet," and who, 1 believe has published a Treatise 

 on the Hot Water system, would do me the favour ; or any one who under, 

 stands a little of chemistry. 



The supply of water for the use of these houses is obliged to be drawn 

 from the hot water pipes, and 1 have more than once attempted to hold an 

 argument with my employer on the bad effects which will be produced from 

 such practice, and have urged the necessity of a proper cistern to supply the 

 plants, Grape Vines, &c, but yet have not been successful, as he believes 

 water from the pipes to be full as beneficial to vegetation as any other. My 

 opinion is, that water after being boiled, must have lost the greater portion 

 of its nutritive properties, in addition to rusting all bundles of Grapes that 

 may be syringed by such water; however wbeu the question is answeied, I 

 shall feel more satisfied, and then let the matter rest. 



Hamburg, Nov., 27th, 1838. 



On Vieusseuxia Pavonica. — Our old and respected correspondent " Bur- 

 riensis," whose letter we published in our Number for April, complains that 

 no answer has been given to his enquires respecting the above bulb, and he 

 will feel much obliged by being informed where it can bo procured ; it is 

 evidently different from the V. Glaucopis, of which he has many bulbs, which 

 flower every year. 



Aiton's Epitome of the ' Hortus Kewensis,' is by mistake called ReiveDsis 

 in the above letter of Burriensis. 



Loudon's ' Hortus Britanicus,' page 20, Vieusseuxia. 

 No. 1358. V. Pavonica, Moraea Pavonia, Iris Pavonia, Peacock. Intro- 

 duced in 1790 ; coloured in Bot. Mag., table 1247. 

 No. 1361. V. Glaucopis, Iris Pavonia, Grey eyed. Introduced in 1776; 

 coloured in Bot Mag. ; table 168. 



Sweet's ' Hortus Britanicus,' page 498, Vieusseuxia. 

 No. 2. V. Pavonia, Peacock, Moraea Pavonia, Iris Pavonia. Introduced in 



1790; coloured in Bot. Mag., ta'de 1247. 

 No. />. V. Glaucopis, White flowered. Introduced in 1776; coloured in 



Bot. Mag , table 108. 

 The colours of the first are stated to be orange, &c") „ n , ., . ^ 



The colours of the second are slated to be white and l> a,,e , ,!° rae . a ' n Cl ' r - 

 blue j TissBol. Mag. 



