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PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Auriculas. — Will you in your notices to correspondents, be kind enough 

 to tell me where and at what price I can get the following Auriculas : — Leighs 

 Colonel Taylor, Oliver's Lovely Ann, Taylor's Glory, Whittakev's True Blue, — 

 or perhaps some of your correspondents could give the necessary information if 

 this were made public ? Lotos. 



Bridlington, 



" R. T. W." will feel obliged to any correspondent of the Cabinet, by a solution 

 of the following question : — -by what principle in nature are flowers impregnated 

 with aroma? 



Brighton Athenjeum. — Is the Atheneum at Brighton rebuilt, or rebuilding? 

 I have not heard anything of it since its fall. If some Brighton reader of the 

 Cabinet will give me a reply, I shall be obliged. J. K. 



On treatment of Alpine plants during Winter. — If any of your 

 correspondents will inform me what is the best method of treating Alpine plants 

 during the winter, in this country, it will much oblige Tropcelum. 



It will much oblige a susbcriber to the Cabinet, if he can have any information 

 respecting a Botanical Society, which is said to be forming in London. C.F.P. 



On Billardiera Melocarpa. — Can you, or any of your correspondents, 

 give me some information on the treatment of the Billardiera Melocarpa 1 I have 

 now trained it against a wall, fronting south-west, which is much exposed 

 to wind. It was bought this summer, and immediately planted out, but I do not 

 think that it has flourished well. Should it be taken in for the winter, or will it do 

 only matted up ? I should be much obliged by an early answer, in time to provide 

 for the winter. Kalmia. 



November 1th, 1836. 

 (We are not at all acquainted with the species here named, but if it be from the 

 same country as the other species, we should think it would do well covered with 

 matting, as noticed. As far north as Yorkshire, we have found some of the species 

 to endure the winter without any covering, and not to be injured in the least. 

 We think that a slight covering of matting, short hay, or moss placed over the 

 branches, and that covered by a piece of thin oiled canvass, would be the best pro- 

 tection; the latter prevents the interior covering from becoming wet, which is of 

 importance in older to preserve the branches. When the inner covering, whether 

 matting or what else is used, is allowed to get wet, it retains that, and the shoots 

 become mouldy and perish. The canvass covering prevents such injury, and 



is very cheap. The yellowish coloured canvass is the best for the purpose, 



looking neater. We have found the Billardieras to nourish very well in a soil 

 well drained at the bottom, and composed of equal parts of good rich loam and 

 sandy peat. — Conductor.) 



ANSWERS. 



Wire-worm. — I beg to refer your correspondent, who has twice solicited in- 

 formation on the most effectual method of destroying the Wire-worm, to the second 

 Vol. page 118, of your extremely useful and well conducted periodical. I 

 have tried S.H.'s method, which is precisely the same as that recommended by 

 Sir J. Banks, and pronounce it to be effectual, but very troublesome. Rape-cake 

 in powder, has been used by Lord Albermarle, as we find by the Horticultural 

 Register, at page 649. Mr. Poynter, however, says, that Cow-urine is immediate 

 destruction to Wire- worms ; it will also destroy grabs and moss upon trees, and 



