22 .MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



observing to keep the pots well drained with potsherds, that the moisture may 

 pass off readily. This process may he considered troublesome, but superior 

 growth, and abundance of flowers, amply repay the care bestowed. By the 

 above treatment, C. speciosus and Jenkinsoni have generally produced from 

 ninety to a hundred fine expanded flowers, at one year old. The plants that I 

 brought to the Society (May 21, 1833,) were about two years old ; the C. specio- 

 sus bore two hundred flowers, C. speciosissimus seventy-two, C. Jenkinsoni one 

 hundred and ninety-four. I prefer growing them in wooden tubs, with nice 

 stakes fixed to the tub, to the usual mode of supporting them by sticks driven 

 into the ball of the plant, which I consider injures the fibre, and makes the 

 plant appear unsightly." 



REMARKS. 



On the Cabinet Numbers, &c. — The Floricultwal Cabinet is unquestion- 

 ably the most valuable Publication to the Amateur, as well as the practical 

 Gardener, both rich and poor, its pages being open for questions and answers, 

 which are both amusing and instructive. I have frequently seen questions in it 

 which would seem at first sight but of little utility if answered, but in them- 

 selves of great importance, especially to the young beginner, and pleasing to all 

 who have the pleasure of perusing it. The low price at which the Cabinet is 

 charged, places it within the reach of eveiy one who is anxious for improvement 

 in the beautiful study of Horticulture. It is to be regretted that the Proprietor 

 did not, when the Cabinet was first established, see the likelihood of so useful a 

 Work rising to its present dignity, and have many more Numbers printed than 

 was called for, as a friend of mine being anxious to possess the whole of the 

 Numbers now published can only obtain 26 of them. We are informed by the 

 Bookseller (who supplies me with the Number monthly) that the Numbers 

 above named cannot yet be obtained, nor can he say whether they will be ob- 

 tainable or not. You will therefore greatly oblige me and my friend by inform- 

 ing us in your next Number, how and when we are likely to get them.* We 

 have not yet been favoured, as suggested by one of your correspondents, with 

 Plates and description of Grasses. I feel confident that it would be of very 

 great utility, as so little is known about Grasses, when so much is required, if a 

 Double-Number were to be issued until a few descriptions on Grasses with plates 

 were given. I do not think that any one of your numerous Subscribers would 

 object to it, for myself I would rather give one shilling per Number, and have 

 two plates and descriptions, when we could also have some of our good old- 

 fashioned flowers represented. 



Can any of your Subscribers inform me of a Grass or any other aquatic plant 

 that would grow in an iron tank about 12 feet by 9, where lukewarm water is 

 always running through it. Eschsciioltzia. 



Liverpool, December 14th, 1836. 



On New or Handsome Flowering Plants. — Tropaolum brachysema. — 

 Last month we noticed, at page 295, a new species of Tropoeolum, the specific 

 name of which we did not know. We have recently obtained information that 

 it had been named by Dr. Lindley T. brachysema, to whom a flowering speci- 

 men had been sent, by G. C. Rashleigh, Esq. Hyde Lodge, Winchester, Hants. 

 Mr. Rasleigh lias received a considerable collection of roots, bulbs, and seeds, 

 from Valparaiso, among which was seed of the Tropoeolum, It has bloomed in 

 the collection of that gentleman, flowering very freely, of a pretty yellow, 

 slightly streaked with a dark colour inside. The blossoms banging in abundant 

 clusters add very much to its beauty. The. foliage is exactly like the T. tricolo- 

 rum. The flowers are in form more like the common Nasturtium of the gardens, 

 each flower being rather more than half an inch across. It is a very neat and 



» Complete sets of the Cabinet, from No. 1 up to the present one may n o w be had of Messrs' 

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