92 MICELLANE0U3 INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE 



QUERIES. 



On producinc dwarf cockscombs. — I shall esteem it a great kindness 

 if you, or any of your correspondents would give me the particulars of a 

 mode of treatment, or the best method of producing dwarf cockscombs, so 

 as to retard the protrusion of the flower stalks, so that they may become 

 of greater strength. I have for several years followed the rules laid down 

 in Abercrombie's Practical Gardener, but invariably had them drawn up 

 from nine to fifteen inches in height ; if you or any of your correspondents 

 would be kind enough to inform me through the medium of your valuable 

 Cabinet how they may be prevented from being drawn up, likewise the dis- 

 tance they ought to keep from the glasses, will be conferring a favour on 



A New Subscriber. 



On sowing annuals. — Being a great admirer of annuals, and as the sea- 

 son for sowing them is approaching, I hope you will devote some pages of 

 your Cabinet to the method of cultivating them with the greatest success. 



I shall be glad to know the soil that best suits the generality of those 

 recommended in your lists. And it would be very useful if in the list you 

 are giving you would distinguish those which are improved by being trans- 

 planted ; and on the other hand, those which are the better for being allow- 

 ed to blow where they have been sown. 



Can you inform me how it is that seeds, although carefully saved 

 from the best flowers, (as of Asters and Marygolds, for instance) neverthe- 

 less produce inferior flowers the following year ? Am I right in attribut- 

 ing the mischief to bees, of which great numbers are kept in my neigh- 

 bourhood ? 



Will you inform me also how to prevent double Polyanthuses from loos- 

 ing colour and becoming single — a calamity which occurs in my garden ? 



An Amateur, 



On a Flower and Kitchen Garden— A Subscriber will be very much 

 obliged to the Editor, if he will in his next number mention what he con- 

 siders the best practicable and easy method to give to an intelligent, but 

 not much experienced gardener some instruction as to the general manage- 

 ment of a Flower and Kitchen garden, and the best method of growing 

 the different kinds of vegetables, pruning and other ordinary operations. 



Is the " Adelaide d'Orleans rose, figured in (he Cabinet of last Septem- 

 ber, a climber P The writer has had two young plants sent him, in pots, 

 which from the character of the stems, &c. appear decidedly of the climbing 

 sort, and not at all corresponding with the figure given in the plant just 

 mentioned. An answer to this query will much oblige Clericus. 



on the vieusseuxia, &c. 

 In Loudon's " Hortus Britannicus" (about the 22d page), under the arti- 

 cle Vieusstnxia, several species are enumerated. One, the V. Pavonica, 

 fformely called MorceaPavonical has a reference to a certain page, in Cnrtis's 

 Botanical Magazine, where it is figured in its proper colours ; and the colour 



