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PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



Lisi anthus Russellianus. — I have purchased on several occasions plants 

 .it' Lisianthus Russellianus, but after trying my utmost to get a plant to 

 bloom, I have tailed hitherto. 1 have tried to grow it in a cool frame, 

 greenhouse, and hothouse, and with peat soil, peat and loam, and rich loam, 

 but in every case unsuccessful. 1 shall feel much obliged to some reader of 

 the Cabinet, who have succeeded to bloom the plant, (for 1 see by accounts 

 of Floral Exhibitions, several large plants in bloom have been shown ;) 

 would furnish me with the particulars of the mode of treatment through the 

 medium of the Cabinet. 



Aug. 3rd, 1839. Clbricus. 



ANSWERS. 



" On Michaelmas Asters. — A list is requested by a Correspondent in a 

 late Number of the Floricultural Cabinet, if the Conductor wishes for such 

 a list, he need only apply to Mr. Rivere, for in a small work called the 

 Vintor, (of last month) is to be found the following remarks upon that 

 flower, " atteution has lately been paid to the increase of the Michaelmas 

 Aster, and already we have for this month alone about a dozen of various 

 heights, from two feet high (Aster Araellus) to seven feet high (Aster Roseus) 

 and from fine white (Aster Elegans) to bright pink, pale blue and purple 

 (Aster Novae Angliae.) Mr. Rivere has been successful in cross breeding 

 those flowers, so cheerful at the commencing of our gloomy season, by tying 

 together the flowers of the different sorts he is desirous of crossing ; such as 

 the rose-coloured and the white, the rose and the blue, and he describes his 

 seedlings for one season, one thousand in number, as having all degrees of 

 colours, from dark blue to the most beautiful azure, from light rose colour to 

 the most delicate blush, and from pure white to the French, or greyish white, 

 in countless varieties of shades, and of all sizes, some being the size of a 

 sixpence, some an inch, or inch and a half in diameter, and some semi- 

 double." 



Such is the report made of the Michaelmas Aster in the above mentioned 

 work, and if it should be of use to Mr. Harrison, and procure a list with 

 such prices affixed as will come within the scope of a slender purse, it will 

 greatly contribute to the pleasure of H. M. E., and the beauty of her little 

 garden. 



(We shall be obliged if our correspondent would send us the number of the 

 Publication to our Publishers, or inform us where to purchase it, as we 

 cannot obtain it after several applications. — Conductor.) 



REMARKS. 



On IIyhridising— It remaineth to be ascertained whether there did exist 

 a real natural, and indefeasible difference between plants which could pro- 

 duce a fertde, and those which could produce a sterile offspring, by blending 

 their races. It was my opinion, that fertility depended much upon circura- 



