214 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



raised last year by Mr. Robert Freeman, gardener to W. Brereton, Esq., near 

 Holt. Norfolk, can be procured from any of the London nurserymen. If your 

 correspondent, Mr. John Carr, would inform me where I can procure those he has 

 mentioned, and at what price, he will confer a great obligation on me. The 

 following are what I particularly refer to : — A pure white, very double, and the 

 petals naturally arranged in exquisite order — shaped like a double white camellia; 

 a fine changeable buff, well formed ; a beautiful fine white, with small thick set 

 petals, having the appearance as if covered with snow. Nemo. 



South Lambeth, May S\st, 1836. 



On destroying the Thrip. — Can you, or any of your Correspondents, in- 

 form me of the best means to eradicate the Thrip from the Dahlia flower, — which 

 so much infest it ? R. L. 



On the Culture of Pansies. — There is no part of your interesting Magazine 

 from which I derive more advantage and information than the answers to corres- 

 pondents. May I request some of your contributors to let us have a paper on the 

 culture of Pansies. I have seen them at the Chiswick Horticultural Shows, and 

 been surprised that a flower which was in so little request a few years ago, should 

 now be brought to such a wonderful degree of perfection in size, shape, and 

 colour. I have attempted to procure some of the best sorts, but I cannot at all 

 rival the size of the flowers that I have seen exhibited. I have also seen beds of 

 Pansies one mass of beautiful blooms. I am induced to ask information as to 

 the best soil in which they can be grown, and also the best mode of propagation, 

 in order to form a bed. I attempted this year to plant out cuttings in spring, but 

 my bed is in it yet covered. A north exposure in summer, and a south one in 

 winter, I find to suit them best, and, as they are so easily transplanted, my inten- 

 tion at present is to plant cuttings in a south exposure this autumn, and to 

 transplant them early in spring to my bed, which is to the north. If, however, 

 any of your readers can give us practical information upon the point, it will, I 

 am sure, be acceptable to many persons, 



I remain, &c. &c. 



23rd Jvly, 1836. A Subscriber. 



On Bone Manure, &c. — You will much oblige a Subscriber by inserting in 

 the September Number any information you may possess on the subject of bone 

 manure as applicable to gardens. It is known to have been successfully employed 

 in agriculture, and would be very serviceable in gardens by not requiring the beds 

 to be disturbed, as is done, with great injury to some of the plants, when digging 

 in manure. The information wished for would embrace the following points : — 

 1 . The kind of soil for which it would be most beneficial. — 2. The season and 

 mode of applying it, particularly as to quantity. — 3. Whether better adapted for 

 any particular plants than this ; and lastly — 4. The address in London of the 

 persons who furnish the article, with the price. Tonbrigiensis. 



P.S. — The liquid manure, so generally used in Flanders, would, no doubt, be 

 be very useful as a surface manure, but it is not easily, if at all, attainable in this 

 country, and is very offensive. 



On answering Queries, &c. — I venture to assert, in the name of the greater 

 half of your readers, that if you could induce your contributors to answer queries, 

 or would shortly answer them yourself, it would render your publication still more 

 valuable to unscientific subscribers, — who, without putting questions themselves, 

 would be great gainers from the doubts and suggestions of others. You must un- 

 derstand this remark is applied to questions which refer strictly to the cultivation 

 of plants, for you cannot be expected to furnish your readers with taste as well as 

 knowledge ; or to fix upon the prettiest flowers for those who cannot choose for 

 themselves. I have had great difficulty in procuring another Erinus Lychnidea, 

 and shall have still more in keeping it, unless you can give me some instruction 

 as to soil, heat or cold, quantity of water, &c. A. B. L. 



Unless an immediate reply to a query was desired, we have usually omitted the 

 •answer in the same month, judging it better to let the subject be brought before 

 our readers, and afibrd them a sufficient opportunity of favouring our querist cor- 

 respondents with replies, and thus a probability existed of any query being an- 

 swered much more satisfactorily than if we gave our individual opinion only. We 



