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MISCELLANEOUS INTliLLKJKNCK. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Hoya carnosa. — I shall be much obliged if you, or any of your corres- 

 pondents, can render me any information on the best mode of raising and treat- 

 ing the Hoya carnosa. Also a list of 20 or 30 sorts of the most hardy and vigo- 

 rous kinds of Chinese Roses — climbers, to run up a trellis facing the north, and 

 a few for the south ; state their height. Also a list of 20 or 30 sorts of hardy 

 annuals, new sorts, and the time for sowing. If this could appear in your next 

 number, I shall be still more obliged. 



Pedro. 



On Insects. — At a meeting of the Entomological Society, trie secretary called 

 the attention of the members to the destruction committed in the Market Gar- 

 dens around London, during the present season, by a species of Aphis, which 

 had abounded and propagated to an incredible extent, upon Cabbages, Brocoli, 

 &c, and which had not previously been observed by the Market Gardeners, by 

 whom it is called a " New Species of Blight;" it was stated, that by watering 

 the plants with tobacco and lime water, the injurious insects might be destroyed. 

 1 beg leave to intimate, that I have tried the experiment with eminent success 

 upon plants infested with the insects named to such an extent as to be con- 

 sidered incurable, but which are now entirely free from them, and in a most 

 healthy and thriving condition. An Original Subscriber. 



Bayswatcr, Sept, 29th, 1836. 



On Competition at Floricultural Exhibitions, &c. — As the general 

 rule of competition seems to be imperfectly understood by many competitors, 

 and I, as well as others, wishing to have a more general knowledge of the same, 

 I here forward for insertion in the Cabinet, the following query. A competition 

 list standing as follows: — For nine best Tulips in classes, viz., three Roses, three 

 Byblcemens, and three Bizards. Suppose a competition taking place as below, 

 the reader will perceive, that every class 

 is competed for by itself. Now I wish 

 some correspondent could apply the gen- 

 eral rule to the opposite table, and show 

 us how A and C stands for competition, 

 for it is quite plain how B and D stands. By answering the above query in the 

 December Number, you will oblige me, as well as others, James Figgans. 



ANSWER. 



A List of the best Show Pinks. — In answer to your correspondent, J. S., 

 p. 187, I am induced to send you the following list of the best Show Pinks, at 

 present in cultivation ; some of them are old flowers, but they need not be de- 

 spised for that as they are real good Show Flowers. J. K. 



Admiral Codrington 

 Barrett's Codrington 

 Barnard's Bexley Hero 

 Bow's George the Fourth 

 Beauty of Shrewsbury 

 Clark's Matilda 

 Colonel Austen 

 Copley's Mars 

 Davey's Lord Brougham 

 Day's Karl of Uxbridge 

 Faulkner's Duke of St. Albans 



Ford's Formosa 



William of Walworth 



Hoggs Fanny Kemble 

 Hopkin's One in the Ring 

 Hardstoue's Conqueror 

 Knight's Lady Acland 

 Keyne's Reformer 

 Kilmer's Matchless 

 Lodge's fled Rover 

 La belle alliance 

 Marshall's Defiance 



