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PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On a List of Plants for a Conservatory, &c. — Having a small Conser- 

 vatory on the outside of my window, wanned only by the heat of the room, and not 

 by any regular flue, I should be obliged if some correspondent would give me the 

 names of such a collection of plants as would look gay and be fragrant, during the 

 autumn, winter, and spring. I do not want them in the summer. I should not 

 have troubled you with the query, did I not think that many plants which would 

 thrive in a regular Conservatory, would not tlirive in such a place as I have de- 

 scribed, which is merely heated by the hot air from the room. 



July \2th, 1836. A Subscriber and Constant Reader. 



On the Anomatheca cruenta, &c. — A Subscriber is very desirous of learn- 

 ing, through the medium of your Cabinet, the best method of raising the Anoma- 

 theca cruenta. I have saved, this summer, a great quantity of seed. Will any of 

 your Correspondents inform me when it is to be sown, — if to be raised in a hotbed 

 or open pans in the greenhouse,— whether seedlings of the same year will blos- 

 som, — and what is the proper soil for raising the seed in ? This information will 

 much oblige A Subscriber. 



August 25th, 1836. 



On the AVire-Worm. — A long time ago, I sent a query to you on the subject 

 of the Wire-Worm. — I wanted to know the best mode of getting rid of the pest. In 

 answer to my query there appeared an extract from a floral publication, recom- 

 mending the careful sifting and examination of the mould, — this process would be 

 very difficult to perform to a great extent In a garden near my residence, which 

 contains fourteen acres, the proprietor lost in one season, a very extensive collec- 

 tion of Dahlias, entirely from the wire w r orm. If any correspondent of the Cabinet 

 knows of a method which would be effectual in a case like the above, and could be 

 easily done, I should be greatly obliged by the information. 



A Subscriber and Constant Rkader. 



ANSWERS. 

 On Mixing Herbaceous Plants with Shrubs. — In answer to your Cor- 

 respondent "Juvenes," on the bad taste of mixing herbaceous plants with shrubs, 

 he will find an article in Vol. II, No. 65, page 412, of the Gardener's Magazine, 

 by the Conductor. In the first place, the author has stated in a former part of the 

 work, that " one of the most common errors in ornamental gardening, is that of 

 mixing herbaceous plants with shrubs and trees." The reason is veiy simple, viz. 

 that neither can thrive properly, and that supposing both to thrive in the same de- 

 gree, the one injures the effect of the other. However pleasing and picturesque it 

 may be to see trees, shrubs, and flowers, all struggling together for the mastery in 

 a natural wood ; yet this sort of beauty is totally unsuitable for scenes of art. The 

 object of collecting trees, shrubs, and flowers into a garden, is to produce them in a 

 higher degree of perfection, and show them off to greater advantage, than can be 

 done in a state of wild nature. Now, whatever, in the planting, cultivation, or 

 management of a garden, interferes with these two objects, the perfection of the 

 plant, and its display to the greatest advantage, must be wrong, unless we are 

 wrong in our views of what is the object of garden culture. If the object in a gar- 

 den is to imitate nature by mixing trees, flowers, and shrubs together indiscrimi- 

 nately, and crowding them together as they are to be seen in a state of nature, 

 then, of course, our argument falls to the ground, and the present general practice 

 of fringing the margin of shrubberies and plantations with herbaceous plants, ad- 

 mits of justification. On the other hand, if we are right in the objects proposed to 

 be attained by a garden, then flowers ought never to be planted where there is 





