MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



On Fccusus, & c.-A constat subscrib «r would wybtj see figured » the 



can Delphinium Barlowi be procured, and its price, LlMERlcK . 



On a New Mode of Heat.ng Hot-Houses, &c.-G. R. being^ informed of 



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NU OnD;stroying Ants -Permit me to enquire through your interesting 



Cabinet 



ANSWERS 



On Forcing Roses .-In answer to your correspondent Rosa relative to 

 Forcing To."?, I have sent a brief account of the best plan II now. He 

 must in the first place collect an equal portion of good substantial loam 

 roUen"eaves and very rotten dung from an old cucumber bed, mixing them 

 wilUoLether' then procure some pots from nine to twelve inches in diameter 

 ^atiiSree'plantB^napot; I repot the plants I forced last January and 

 f" "fry about the latter^ «f August, then let them remain ,« the open 

 air unt 1 December, when I remove them into the hothouse, but before , I Jake 

 U en, tl ere I 'cut back the young shoots to two or three eyes of the old stem 

 For the firs three weeks I keep the house to sixty or seventy degrees oi heat, 

 hen increase it to eighty or ninety degrees: I would not recommend lore 

 ,,./d c i sharp in the first place, as that prevents their breaking strong, 

 ^d^pdy there would not be so many *™»>™*{ J™™£ 

 pondent followe the plan 1 have before recommended, he will find it ^an- 

 swer his expectations. 



REMARKS. 

 On Obi oumed Flowers, &C.-A lady residing in the neighbourhood of 

 Bathunt, New South Wales, has observed some curious phenomena in her 

 garden, wbiebshe thinks of aufficient interest to be inserted m the pages oi 



