118 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART II. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Glycine Harrisonia. — M. E. L. will thank Mr. .Harrison to inform 



her, through the Floricultural Cabinet, when, where, and at what price, 



plants of the Glycine Harrisonia may be procured; likewise how they could 



be forwarded, and if any particular care is requisite in their management. 



[The plant can be supplied by us from Downham Nursery, ?s, 6d. each. 



It is of the easiest culture, vigorous in growth, and a profuse bloomer. 



— Conductor.] 



On a Compost for the Auricula..— Having long admired the candour and 

 intelligence of your -'Cabinet," and the facility it gives to inquiry, and 

 clearing up of doubts on floricultural subjects; I take the liberty of availing 

 myself of this latter characteristic in the present instance. 



In a compost I am forming for Auriculas. I have saturated layer after 

 layer with the urine of horses, and then keeping it under cover, the fluid 

 parts evaporate, leaving urea, phosphute of lime, and other salts contained 

 in the urine, iuterniued with the compost. Do you not think this will 

 greatly increase the fertilizing properties of the soil? Is not inspissated urine 

 or urine evaporated until it becomes glutinous, a remarkably active manure '. 

 The pondrette of the French contains a considerable ratio of this; do you 

 think it likely to injure my plants, after it has been thoroughly incorporated 

 with the soil ? By inserting these queries as early as possible, and some 

 correspondent favouring me with an answer will greatly oblige a 



Constant Reader. 



ANSWERS. 



On The Fuchsia.— Reply to an Amateur, resident at Camberwell. — I beg 

 to state that I have cultivated that beautiful and graceful plant, the Fuchsia, 

 mentioned in his query, for above three years, and have now a plant not 

 more than two years old, 5 feet in height, and as many in circumference. My 

 opinion is, that putting the plants in-doors of an evening, is the cause of the 

 buds dropiug off, as I always leave mine out night and day, as soon as the 

 frosts are over ; in the next place, it is probably for want of water, when 

 coming into bloom, they should be plentifully supplied, at least twice in four 

 and twenty hours: and a pan always kept under them. I have no doubt, 

 if your correspondent will adopt this plan, he will find himself rewarded, 

 by a splendid ohow of these delightlul flowers. 



Bays water. W, M. 



On t,he Wisteria Sinensis. — In answer to the query of "A Subscriber, 

 contained in the last number of the Floricultural Cabinet, 1 may, perhaps, 

 be able to give him some little information on the flowering of the Westeria 

 Sinensis, which at first disappointed me as it appears to have done the En- 

 quirer. When 1 obtained my plant six years ago, having seen it in 

 bloom in the South of England, I imagined the shelter of the greenhouse 

 might be necessary for its flowering and accordingly placed it there, where 

 it soon covered the whole of the back with its luxuriant foliage, but never 

 showed one flower. The following spring it was placed in a full South 

 aspect against the garden wall in the open air, but still failed tc flower ; when 

 by the advice of a person who had seen the plant elsewhere, 1 had it dressed 



