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have been engaged in planting my Tulips this week and the preceding one ; 

 consequently have had but little thought of any thiug else. I shall give 

 you my method of cataloguing and planting, which I conceive (barring con- 

 ceit) to be preferable to any I have yet seen or heard of. — It is applicable to 

 a stock of 100 or 5000— to the Ranunculus as well as the Tulip— combining 

 facility and simplicity. It is difficult to offer any thing new and good in 

 the way of knowledge, where on all subjects the Florkullural, by its many 

 correspondents, has presented to the world so much able and genuine in- 

 formation on composts, method of treatment, &o. &c. ; nor am I, perhaps, 

 warranted to communicate much on this head. However, to beguile time, 

 and hear the various modes of treatment by others, perhaps some of your 

 readers would like to know my way of managing Auriculas. Although 

 this year has been so wet and damp, I have only lost one plant out of a 

 hundred pots, and my stock is looking capital. 



Nov. \oth, 1835- ' An Old Florist. 



[We shall be much obliged by the promised favour.— Conductor.] 



On the White Mealy Insect, or Pink Bog.— I should be greatly 

 obliged by you, or any of your Correspondents, informing me the best method 

 of destroying the White Mealy Insect, or Pine Bug, which attacks Stove 

 Plants as well as Pine Plants. 



Banbury, Oct. 1835. A Regular Subscriber. 



On a Stand for Showing Pansies. — I should be greatly obliged to 

 you, or any of your Correspondents, to inform me of the best method of 

 showing Pansies at an Horticultural Show, so as to make the flowers show 

 to advantage. I have seen them shown in a great many different plans, 

 but 1 do not like any of them : I should like to see the plan of one figured 

 in the Cabinet, so as to have one made by. I hope to see an early answer 

 to the above. J. K. 



On Carrying Dahlia Blooms. — Could you, or any of your Correspond- 

 ents, inform me of the best method of carrying Dahlia Blooms to a distance, 

 for the flowers to keep fresh, and not be injured much! I have been put to 

 great inconvenience this season by my flowers being spoiled in carriage to a 

 distance. J. K. 



On Sdperior Pinks. — Mr. J. Smith, of Faversham, Kent, (Vol. III. p. 

 'J35), should grow such Pinks as Bows' Suwarrow, P. L., Faulkner's Duchess 

 of St. Albau's, P. L., Bows' Cicero, B. W., and Faulkner's Mars, R. L., &c, 

 if he is desirous of having large and superior kinds. They are well laced, 

 and have rose-shaped leaves. When properly groion, they never burst. I 

 never saw a South of England raised Pink worth growing, being generally 

 bursters, and with the centre full of small leaves, also indifferently laced. 

 Perhaps Mr. Smith, or some other Southern grower of Pinks, will inform 

 me why such Pinks are encouraged. 



Lancaster, 1835. T. Connelly, Jun. 



ANSWER. 



On Dissecting Leaves, &c. — In compliance with the wishes of A 

 Subscriber and Admirer of Floricultural Botany, I observe that I have dis- 

 sected leaves, calyxes, and capsules of flower?, by the following method: — 

 " Cherries, Pear, Poplar, Ivy, Holly or Maple leaves to be gathered in Juno 

 or July, when the young leaves aro at their full growth ; put them in an 

 oarthen pan, full of rain-uater, as it wastes fill it up, but do not empty out 

 any of the water. Some of the leaves will be ready to dissect in a month, 

 and some not in less than two. When the external membranes begin to 

 separate, then is the time to begin the operation. The leaf must be put in 

 a flat white plate, with clean water: squeeze the leaf gently with the finger 

 and it will open on one side, the green juice will press out; then the two 

 outward skins must be stripped off, first in the middle and along the sides, 

 where they closely adhere, and if an opening is made, they will easily come 



