2!2 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



. °^ N ^umbkjms— A lew hints on the culture of these beautiful plants will 

 be tnanklully perused by your constant reader. 



Canterbury July 13th, 1838. j # p k. 



Should the bulbs be taken up and driedannually ? 



A Young Amateur. 

 On packing plants— A. M. D. would be considerably obliged by being 

 furnished through the medium of the Cabinet with any practical information 

 upon the best mode of packing and managing plants during a voyage. Mr. 

 M. D has many opportunities of receiving plants from his friends residing 

 abroad, which he certainly should do, when he is acquainted with the best 

 practical method of transmitting them. An early answer will greatly oblige. 

 Liverpool, June 28th, 1838. 



, . c . Tl ' — * should feel much obliged if any of your correspondents 

 would inform me through the medium of the Cabinet, respecting what I call 

 a phenomena ol nature. The cause, why a piece of one of the tribe of Cacti, 

 which 1 observed a short time since in a garden, after being cut from the 

 plant, and laying a fortnight on a shelf in the greenhouse, to produce as 

 perfect a (lower as when growing on the plant, tlit bud not being nearly ma- 

 tured when taken from the stem. Not having observed a thing similar be- 

 lore, and leering an interest in botanical kaowiedge. induced me to send this, 

 and should leel extremely obliged, by its insertion in the Cabinet. 



Orbioliogist. 



REMARKS. 



JVew and Bare Plants. 

 Ruellia eleoans. — This new and dwarf species has bloomed beautifully 

 at Mr. Young's of Epsom, and Mr. Lowe's of Clapton in the stove. The 

 flowers are ot a pretty blue, producing a very lively appearance which has 

 continued lor several months successively 



Siphocampyliis bicolou.— This plant is in fine bloom at Mr. Henderson's, 

 Pine Apple Place, Edgeware Road; its scarlet and yellow flowers, singular 

 in torm, are produced for many successive months. It is very ornamental for 

 the greenhouse, or conservatory. 



Pestemon Cobcea, is also inline bloom at Mr. Henderson's, it is a mostmag- 

 nifacent species, well deserving a place in every flower garden. The corolla 

 is more than an inch across at its mouth, and such flowers are numerously 

 produced. 



Hippeastrum ambiguum longiflorum.— This new variety is in bloom at 

 the Epsom nursery. The flowers are very large, of a pretty cream colour 

 streaked with crimson. It deserves a place in every greenhouse. 



Fuschia fulcens is now in bloom in several nursery and flower estab- 

 lishments, and in its vigorous state is a most magnificent object as a Fuch- 

 sia. Whether the tine foliage or large and brilliant (lowers be noticed, each 

 render it deserving of a place in every greenhouse. 



Comesperma gracilis, is iiibloom in the greenhouse at the Epsom nur- 

 sery, the plant is shrubby, a twiner of graceful habit, the leaves are narrow, 

 about an inch long. The flowers are produced in profusion on the slender 

 stems, in racemes of ten or twelve on each, of a lively violet colour very 



