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give a luxuriance both to trees and young crops, but it must be administered to 

 trees during a frost, to young crops during the Spring, and must be poured near 

 them but not upon them — the soil having been first a little stirred. 



R. T. W. T. 



On a yellow flowering plant &c. — Several of your correspondents have 

 made enquiries respecting a yellow flowering plant, for a bed, to contrast with 

 other colours. I beg to inform tbem that there is no plant with yellow flowers, more 

 suitable for a bed, than the Sanvatalia procumbens, which grows about six-inches in 

 height, and continues in bloom from June till the frost kills it It is beautiful 

 when in full bloom; its pretty dark yellow flowers rising one above the other, so as 

 to conceal nearly the foliage from the eye. The Leptosiphon densiflorus, and an- 

 drosaceus fonn a neat appearance when planted in beds, and masses, one having 

 white, and the other rose coloured flowers. 



On a list of annuals. — A correspondent, "Pedro," page 260, wishes for a 

 list of hardy Annuals, and the time of sowing. By referring to almost any of the 

 volumes of the Cabinet, he will soon find out what time to sow, &c. The follow- 

 ing is a list of the most beautiful and showy sorts in cultivation, and will bloom 

 freely in the open bed or border. If those kinds marked with two asterisks, be 

 forwarded by being raised in a pot in a room or frame, and afterwards planted 

 out, it would contribute to having the kinds more early in bloom. All the kinds 

 may be procured of the Loudon seedsmen as Charlwood, Keman, Warner, or 

 Carter, &c. 



Lupinus subcamoinis 



elegans 



nanus 



grandi flora 



Antirrhinum glandulosum 



* Anchusa versicolor 



* Campanula Loreyi 



* Coreopsis coronaria 



* diversifolia 



* fili folia 



tinctoria atropurpurea 



Calliopsis bicolor 

 ** Calandrinia grandiflora 

 ** discolor 



Clarkia pulchella 



alba 



grandi riora 



* Collinsia bicolor 



* Eutoca multi flora 



* viscida 



* Menziesii 



< ; i ludetia rubicunda 



* G ilia tricolor 

 * alba 



achilleefolia 



coronopifolia 



* tennui flora 



* Kaulfussia amelloides 

 Lasthenia Californica 



The above list of hardy Annuals contains none but showy kinds. Those marked 

 thus *, will look best when grown in a bed of a sort, upon a grass plat. I shall 

 shortly send you an article on the subject of sowing annuals in beds, &c. 



Wilts, November, 1836. J. K. 



In reply to " James Figgans" request, in Number XLV, I have to observe, 

 that the plainest and most simple rule which can be applied to the table lie has 

 proposed, on that containing any number of competitors in any number of classes, 

 is tfle following : — In the table, are four competitors, therefore, the numerical value 

 of tin- prizes, will be four, three, two, one; consequently, lie who obtains a first 

 prize, will reckon four, a second prize three, a third prize two, and a fourth prize 

 one; therefore, B reckoning eleven, will be the first; A, counting eight, will be the 

 tecond ; C's number being seven, will be the third; and D's tour, the fourth. This 

 mode of calculating, holds good in any number of classes, and any number of 



* Heliophylla arabioides 



* Leptosiphon densiflorus 

 * androsaceus 



Malope grandiflora 

 — alba 



** Nemophila insignis 



** 



Nolana paradoxa 

 * atriplicifolia 



* GEnothera humifusa 

 — rosea-alba 



** Phlox Drummondii 



* Phacelia congesta 



** Spluenogyne speciosa 



* Sanvatilia procumbens 

 Scbizanthus diflusus 



humilis 



Grahami 



pinnatus 



Zega leptantha 



** Zinnia elegans and its varieties. 



