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the above, to treat his Cyclamens, is to turn them out into a bed of good 

 soil as soon as the frosts in May will permit ; and repot them in the autumn. 

 I hare had plants with as many as fifty flowers out at once on plants treated 

 in this way. The seed should be sown as soon as] ripe in shallow pots. 

 Let the soil in the bed be a good sandy loam. I generally put a little sandy 

 peat with the soil in the pots. T. B. 



On a Dwarf Yellow Flowering Plant. — In Vol. I. p. 210, Amicus 

 requests to know what yellow creeping plant would answer his purpose. I 

 beg to recommend Lysimachia nummularia, (Moneywort,) a favourite of 

 mine, neglected, perhaps, because a native. I have no doubt that it may he 

 easily obtained, for when it once has possession, it takes care not to quit, 

 particularly if the soil be moiut. R. 



Rose budded on a Black Currant Bush. — In Vol. III. p. 21, Flos. 

 Ferraria begs to know if it be true that by grafting a rose on a black 

 currant bush, the colour will be changed ! To the greater number of your 

 subscribers it may appear idle to answer the question: but as it is one of 

 vulgar belief, it may perhaps be well to shew why it is impossible. The 

 rose and the currant are of two different natural families ; no union can take 

 place between plants of different natural families, in whatever way the graft 

 maybe inserted: but even were it possible to unite such dissimilar plants, 

 the stock can by no means be made to influence the colour of the grafted 

 flower, further than affording a greater or less degree of nourishment, in the 

 same manner as a richer or poorer soil would do. R. 



[We admitted the Query into the Cabinet, solely with a view for *uch an 

 absurdity, so generally believed, to be refuted. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 



On Pinks. — I see in your Cabinet a little bit of unfriendly advice given 

 by Mr. T. Connelly, of Lancaster, to Mr. Smith, of Faversham. It re- 

 quires no notice from me as far as Mr. Smith is concerned, as he is too good 

 a judge of Pinks to be misled by it ; but you have other readers not so well 

 acquainted with them; therefore, to them I would particularly address my- 

 self. I shall begin with advising them on no account to grow any one of 

 the sorts Mr. T. Connelly has, in his infinite wisdom and judgment, select- 

 ed as the best flowers in England : they are all single, or eight-petalled 

 flowers, with three small triangular petals in the centre to form the crown. 

 Mr. C. tells him they are large and superior, whereas they are quite the 

 reverse, as I believe it to be impossible to grow any one of them more than 

 two inches in diameter. He says, " they are well laced," — admitted, — " and 

 have rose-shaped leaves." Impossible : or how are they to be inserted into 

 the calyx! — but I suppose he means their edges are even, like the petal of a 

 Rose; if so, that is not true, as what is called a rose-edged Pink is a very 

 different sort of thing to any he has named. Again: "When properly 

 grown, they never burst." Monstrous! Why, a mouse running through 

 the Thames Tunnel would be just as likely to rip it up, as Mr. Connelly's 

 Pinks with eight petals are to burst a pod they cannot fill ! Mr. Connelly 

 then tells Mr. Smith he never saw a Somh-of-Englaud-raised Pink worth 

 growing. I question if he ever saw one at all, or he would never have ven- 

 tured such an assertion. That Mr. Connelly may see there are such things 

 as good Pinks raised in the South of England, let him hand over the needful 

 to Hogg, of Paddingtou, with an order for the following sorts: — Hogg's 

 Fanny Kemble, White's William the Fourth, Barrett's Conqueror, Prior's 

 Miss Blackstone, Wells's Sultana, and Church's Helen. These, if he grow 

 them properly, will at once let him into the light of what properties consti- 

 tute a good Pink, both as regards size, colour, number of petals, and rose- 

 edged flowers. And if Mr. Connelly would like to see a few of extraordi- 

 nary size, let him get Unsworth's Omega, Hopkins's One of-the-Ring, 



