MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 67 



PART IN. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 



QUERIES. 



_On Rose du Roi, &c. I wrote to you some lime since on destroying the 

 wireworm, and from your so obligingly inserting the few observations, I 

 made on the subject, I am induced to send you the following remarks, and 

 shall feel obliged to any of your correspondents who will favor me with an 

 answer to my question. Why have my standard rose trees (which bloomed 

 luxuriantly last year), not put forth one blossom this autumn. They are of 

 the ' Rose du Roi' species and very healthy : Should 1 have pinched off the 

 buds in May and June ? Perhaps some one who is in the habit of growing 

 these kind of roses will favor me with an answer, likewise a description of 

 the best soil for them and the Yellow Noisette, 



On a Fungus rising among tender annuals, &c. I was very much 

 troubled last season in raising my tender annuals, by a species fungus for- 

 cing itself up among the young seedlings in my hot bed. If some reader of 

 the Cabinet will tell me how to guard against this evil another time. I shall 

 be much obliged by an early answtr. 



Calceolaria. 



REMAKRS. 



New Plants. —Aconiium Chinense. A very fine flowering species sent 

 by Dr. Von Siebold from Japan, we saw it in bloom at Mr. Young's, Epsom 

 Nursery. It is quite a hardy herbaceous perennial. The flower stems rise 

 four feet high, each having numerous lateral spikes of fine blue flowers. 

 Each flower is about two inches across. 



Litium lanci/ohum album. Mr. Young also possesses this raw kind sent 

 by Dr. V. Siebold from Japan. The flowers are white, very handsome. 

 Also the two following kinds from the same source, via. 



Lilium roseum, and L, punctatum, both handsome flowering species To 

 persons partial to this beautiful tribe of plants, the above will be an inter- 

 estmg addition. 



Scabiata grandiflcra, vat. A new and very fine flowering variety is in the 

 possession of Mr. Groom, Walworth, who will soon have plants for sale. It 

 is a very nne ornament to the flower border. 



Epimedium violaceum. Mr. Groom possesses this new, pretty and singular 

 flowering species, it will require to be grown in the greenhouse, and will 

 merit a place in every one. 



Galphemia splendens. This very neat and pretty flowering species we 

 saw in bloom in the greenhouse at Mr. Groom's. The plant grows three 

 leet high, or upwards, producing numerous lateral branches, which arc 

 adorned with pretty golden yellow flowers, each blossom about an inch 



