PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Gladioluses. — I shall feel obliged if you, or any of your correspon- 

 dents, will inform me of the names of a few of the leading sorts of Gladio- 

 luses, to flower in the greenhouse, in pots ; with their proper treatment, 

 time of potting, &c. &c. An early answer will greatly oblige. 



Dec. 23rd, 1835. An East Hants Constant Reader. 



On Dahlia Plants. — I should be obliged if some subscriber to the Cabinet 

 would inform me, which treatment is best for securing good Dahlia plants 

 where only two or three of the same hind are required. Is dividing the 

 roots, or taking young cuttings early in the spring, the best*? 



T. B. 



On Russian Violets, &c. — I shall be obliged to you to inform me, 

 through the medium of the Floricultural Cabinet, what soil and management 

 best suits the Russian and Neapolitan Violets, to secure profuse bloom; also, 

 what culture and soil best suit the Violet Erythronium Americanum. I 

 have many roots of the Russian and Neapolitan Violets, both in pots and 

 in the borders; but they throw out little or no bloom, while the plants look 

 healthy and vigorous, and increase in leaf, and root rapidly. I shall be 

 glad to know, through the same medium, whether it is advisable to prune 

 the Honeysuckle (Lonicera flexuosa), when it has attained a great height 

 against a wall; and if so, how, and in what months. Also, which is consi- 

 dered the very best time of the year to prune Roses, as I find around us 

 various opinions as to which is the best, both among gardeners and amateurs; 

 and whether they should be pruned to one or two eyes ; also, whether the 

 Moss, Yellow, Noisette, Borsault, Scotch, China, Banksia, &c. require each 

 a separate mode of treatment. Being a very great lover and admirer of 

 Roses, and anxious to see them bloom luxuriantly, I am very desirous of 

 finding out the best mode of treatment. Can you inform me why the Aza- 

 leas, and indeed all the American plants I have purchased from various 

 nurserymen in this neighbourhood, (viz. Basingstoke, Winchester, and 

 Southampton,) such as Rhododendrons, Kalmias, Daphnes, and Magnolias, 

 are covered with moss, look shabby when they arrive, the leaves (especially 

 of the white and pink Azalea) turning yellow and sickly, and never do well 

 with us, though we have been at the expense of getting bog soil for them 

 from a considerable distance. I want likewise to know how old the Chimo- 

 nanthus fragrans (or, as some call it, Calycauthus pitecox) must be, before 

 it will produce flowers. I have three, all more than three years old, which 

 have not borne one bloom yet. — I have also a double Pomegranate, from 

 Page's nursery, Southampton, which has been in our garden three years, 

 but has never blossomed. I have attended to the. advice given in one of the 

 Numbers of your useful and entertaining work, and it has never been 

 pruned. Is there a sort which does not bloom ? — I have been long anxiously 

 looking for the promised drawings of greenhouses, which the Editor of the 

 Floricultwal Cabinet long since promised to his subscribers and the public. 

 An early answer to the above floricultural queries will oblige. 



Candover, Jan. 23rd. 1836. C. S. 



[The plates will be given in due course, plans of gardens having been 

 solicited. — Conductor.] 



