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some obvious impediment to their arriving at a high degree of perfection, or where 

 there is some other rival object of beauty to interfere with their effect I will con- 

 tinue the subject at some future time. W. Hurst. 

 (We shall be glad of any observations on the subject from Mr. Hurst. — Cond.) 



On Destroying Moss, &c. — As I have not seen any answer to the question 

 put by Maria in the June Number of the Cabinet, page 137, in which she asks 

 for information how to get rid of moss in a long gravel walk. I conjecture that 

 the walk is possessed of one if not both the following evils, namely, that the walk 

 lays wet, and that the gravel is of a very close or clayey nature. To remedy these 

 evils, I would advise Maria to have the walk well drained, and some sharp sand 

 mixed with the gravel; the draining may be done in the following manner: — take 

 the gravel off, about a foot inside, along the centre of the walk, and lay it on one 

 side, and take out the sub-soil the same width and depth ; then make the bottom 

 of the drain firm, and lay in a good hollow drain with bricks or stones, and fill up 

 the remainder with small stones to within an inch of the top, and lay the gravel 

 on again. If the walk is more than six feet wide, then there should be two drains, 

 that is, one towards each side. There is another way in which walks may be laid 

 dry, but it is attended with more trouble and expense than the former; but 

 where materials can be had without much expense, I would recommend it. It is 

 as follows : — In renovating an old walk, begin at one end and take off the gravel 

 for about six or eight feet, and carry it to the other end, then take out the sub-soil 

 about six inches deep at the sides, and keep bearing a little deeper till you come to 

 the centre ; this being done, lay in a drain as directed above : — the whole must then 

 he filled up to its proper height with stones or other hard material, laying the 

 smallest at the top. Then take the gravel off another length, and put it on what 

 has been drained ; next take out the sub-soil and drain as before, and so go through 

 the whole walk. If the gravel is of a close or clayey nature, it must not be laid 

 on more than an inch thick, some sharp sand may be mixed with it as it is laid on. 

 In making a new walk, it is best to drain the whole length at once. In making 

 or draining a walk, if the walk does not fall either way, the drain must be con- 

 structed to convey the water off. W. Denyer. 



On Coronilla glauca. — In the July Number of the Cabinet, page 163, Maria 

 wishes for information on the Coronilla glauca. I advise her to pinch off the tops 

 of the leading shoots. Young plants are sometimes shy of blooming, particularly if 

 they are growing luxuriantly. The lateral shoots thus caused will be flowering 

 ones. W. Denyer. 



REMARKS. 



On a List of the Best Hyacinths for Forcing. — Many of your readers 

 would, we think, cultivate Hyacinths with much greater pleasure, could they as- 

 certain which were most worthy of their attention. But the London Catalogues 

 containing some hundreds of varieties, with no other distinction than Double and 

 Single of Red, Blue, White, and Yellow, and many of the most expensive, being 

 so inferior to some of the lower priced varieties as to render the prices no criterion 

 of quality, they are discouraged in their attempts to select the best. Having for 

 many years paid particular attention to Hyacinths, growing annually in pots and 

 glasses several hundreds of the finest varieties cultivated in Holland, we send for 

 insertion in your Cabinet, (should you deem it worthy of a place) a select list of a 

 few (//"those, which we consider the finest, for blooming in pots and glasses, (all of 

 which are at very moderate prices) hoping by means of your extensive circulation, 

 to obviate the above evil. J. Sctton & Sons. 



Reading, Berkshire, July 1 836. 



(We refer our Readers to Messrs. Sutton's Advertisement, in this month's 

 Cabinet. Conductor. 



On the Growth of Plants, &c. — When plants advance but little in their 

 growth, and assume a very dark or blue green colour, it shows a want of water, or 

 mi obstruction to the action of the capillary attraction; and when a plant is of a 

 light green colour, and is diminutive and puny in its growth, and there is evidently 



