22 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Heartsease dying— Having for two or three years past grown n. 

 few varieties of this lovely tribe, now such a general favourite. I will feel 

 obliged if you or any of your correspondents could inform me from what 

 cause it is that so many of the plants in my bed this last July went oil 

 with some peculiar disease ; the plants even when in full bloom, assuming 

 a black appearance, gradually growing yellow, and dying away ; nor upon 

 lifting them, in this state, could I discover any worm or other insect at the 

 root. 1 may mention that I have grown them successfully for two years 

 and they blooomed very well upon the same spot. Could this be the rea- 

 son of their failure this season ? an early answer will much oblige your 

 constant subscriber. Colycinth, 



On Dahlia t lowers. — I have in my garden about forty or fifty Dahlias 

 of pretty fine kinds, but being a new grower, I would esteem it a favour 

 if some reader wonld answer the following query — I observe in almost all 

 my plants three buds to shoot out from one branch and 'conclude that two 

 of thein should be taken away, leaving the third to flower, Therefore should 

 the bud so left be the middle or centre one, which 1 think is invariably in 

 a more forward state than its companions, or will the buds on each side of 

 it produce finer flowers, and consequently one of them kept. True Blue. 



REMARKS. 



New Plants — Chrytanthcmums. We visited the nursery of Messrs. Chan- 

 dler's nursery, Vauxhall, to see the splendid show of Chrysanthemums, which 

 very far exceeded our expectations, being most strikingly beautiful. We 

 subjoin the following list of what we saw : 



Queen. — Light rose, flower double, moderate size, early. 



Marquis. Light pink, flowers double, large and in clusters, early. 



Triumphant. Pink and buff, large, early 



Bicolor. White and yellow, flowers small, very double, dwarf, early, 



Chancellor. White and pink quilled, flowers large and incurved, late 



i'ormosum, Incurved white, with lemon coloured centre, early. 



Lucidum. Incurved white, early. 



Enchantress. Incurved creamy white, flowers large, late. 



Spectabile. Quilled white, early. 



Gem. White with pink tips, early. 



Vesta. White, flowers very round, cupped petals, early 



Marchioness. White, with a little pink on the outer petal, early. 



Coronet. Clustered white, round petals, early. 



Imperial. Incurved French white, flower large, early. 



Eminent. Light pink, incurved, late. 



Corapactum. White, ilowerssmall, very double, late. 



Goliath. Yellowish quilled white, very large, incurved, early. 



Conspicuuin. Crim»on, flowurs very large, semi double, early. 



