4-1 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On the management of Ericas. — I shall esteem it a great kindness if 

 some Correspondent of the Cabinet would give me the particulars of a mode 

 of treatment with Ericas, so as to keep the plants bushy and healthy. I have 

 had frequent renewals of plants, purchasing bushy ones, but though I have 

 kept them in an airy part of the greenhouse, and to the best of my knowledge 

 have treated them with a regular supply of water, &c, yet they soon become 

 naked, and in two or three years died. I have invariably found too, that a 

 great quantity of my large plants, bought at a distance from my own residence, 

 have soon died after removal. How is this to be accounted for ? Would small 

 plants be likely to succeed better ? I beg in this place to thank the Corre- 

 spondent, " A Practical Heath Grower," for his very excellent remarks on 

 Ericas in the January number. If the same person, or others, practically ac- 

 quainted with the subject, will favour me with a reply, I shall be greatly 

 indebted for such kindness. 



North Wales, January, 1837. W. P. Hamilton. 



On Ipomopsis elegans. — I have had seeds sown of this handsome flower- 

 ing plant for the last four years, I have succeeded to get the plants near 

 flowering, when, on a sudden, without any reason I could discover, they 

 withered, drooped, and died. This has invariably been the case with plants 

 grown in pots, as well as in the open border. I shall be very much obliged if 

 some Reader of the Cabinet would give me the particulars of a successful 

 mode of treatment. An early attention to my request will be an additional 

 kindness, so that I may be successful the coming season. This plant did go 

 by the name of Gilia aggregata, two or three years since. I name this lest any 

 of the Readers should not know it by the more recent name. 



Nottingham. Medictjs. 



On a list of Rock Plants. — Will you, or any of your Correspondents, 

 be kind enough to give a list of some of the best plants for rock work ? A 

 variety of colours, and flowering at different seasons is desirable. The rock 

 has a western aspect. J. G. 



To " J. K." I would be obliged to your Wilts Correspondent, whose initials 

 are the same as my own, J. K., (and who I humbly thank for his honourable 

 mention of my name in last month's Cabinet,) if he would favour me, at his 

 convenience, with any list or hint he may deem it prudent to let me know of; 

 and he in return may, with every liberty, put any question to me on any sub. 

 ject on gardening, &c, he may consider me likely to know; my knowledge is 

 not much, but what I know I will freely communicate. J. Keknan. 



4, Great Russell-street, Covent Garden, London. 



REMARKS. 

 On Tree Mignonette. — Sow seed of the common Mignonette, towards 

 the end of February, in pots of the size thiry-twos, such being near six inches 

 deep, and four and a-half diameter, inside measure. Use a good rich loamy 

 soil. After the seed is sowar, place the pots in a cucumber or melon frame. 

 When the plants are up, they must be placed where they can get air, to pre- 

 vent them being drawn up weakly as well as to preserve them from damping off. 

 When the plants have made a few leaves, pull up all the plants but two, which 

 must be allowed to remain till they get over danger from damping off, when 

 the best may be retained and be secured to a support. As the plants grow, 

 side shoots will push, they must be pinched off, always leaving the leaf at thi 



