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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



or cut under a joint, and I have not found any difference as to ripened or 

 green shoots. The native name of the plant, according to Mr. Cunningham, 

 is Kowaingutu-Kaka, or Parrot's-bill, referring to the keel of the flower. 

 Curtis'sBot. Mag. 



OnClianthcs pcniceus. — Having recently seen a splendid specimen of this 

 plant in bloom in a greenhouse, planted against a trellis, attached to the 

 back wall. I made some inquiries respecting its treatment in general. An 

 intelligent gardener informed me that he formerly grew the plant in a pot, 

 but requiring to be so often repotted, he resolved to plant it out into the bor- 

 der, the soil of which is a fresh turfy-loam, well enriched with old hot bed 

 dung : he turned out the plant last August when three feet high, and now 

 (June 1st) it is eleven, and the lateral, shoots having been spread, cover a 

 space six feet broad. The whole plant appeared to be a mass of beauty 

 beyond conception. The plant has occasionally been matured with liquid 

 manure, 



I was told that it was an error to grow the plant in sandy peat soil, as has 

 been strongly recommended and generally practised, it keeps the plant 

 weakly, and in proportion fewer of flowers, but the more vigorous, the more 

 bloom. I was also told that the plant ought to be grown in the open bed in 

 preference to a pot. The roots extend so rapidly and numerously as to re- 

 quire a vast extent to range in, if the plant is to arrive at its native beauty 

 and grandeur. 



The plant thrives well when trained in the open air against a south as- 

 pected wall, but it will not endure the cold of winter without protection, 

 but it is easy of culture, and will satisfactorily bear taking up each autumn, 

 and preserved in a cool greenhouse, through winter, and in the spring 

 planted out as before. Cuttings strike very rapidly if planted in sand, and be 

 placed in a gentle heat for a few weeks. Flora. 



List of Plants suitable for a flower Garden, not liable to be 

 eaten by Hares. — The following list of plants contains those which, when 

 bedded out at Dropmore, are seldom gnawed or bitten by hares or rabbits, 

 except those which are distinguished in the list by anmsterisli, which are 

 sometimes gnawed when newly planted. Newly planted things are more 

 liable to injury than such as have been in the ground some time, 



Troposolum majus flore pleno 

 Verbena Sabiniana 

 .. pulchella 

 ,. *venosa 



*chamaedrifolia 

 Melindris 

 Bourardia triphylla 

 •Heliotropium sp. 

 Calceolaria salvifolia 

 . , thyrsiflora 



rugosa 

 . . augustifolia 



(Enothera macrocarpa 

 Pelargonium optabile 

 ., Daveyanum. 



pavonicum 

 . . Black Prince 



.. Fairy Queen 

 .. Scarlets in var. 



Nierembergia calcycina 

 Salvia chamedrifolia. 



. . fulgens 



. . Grahami 

 Senechio elegans 

 Kanlfusia amelloides 

 Mahernia pinnata 

 Petunia nyctaginiflora 



.. rosea 



.. praenitens 



. . Phoenicia 

 blanda 

 Mimulus roseus 

 Isotoma axilaris 

 Alonsoa linearis 



. . acutifolia 

 Cinneraria amelloides 

 Fuchsia globosa. 



From Loudon's Gardbner's Magazine, 



On Lantona Selloii. — This very neat and handsome flowering plant has 

 bloomed most profusely when grown in the open flower beds, that I am in- 

 duced to send a few observations on the mode of treatment I pursued. 



