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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



season. In 1835 it was in every stand ; last year, I do not remember seeing a 

 good bloom. In my list I may, perhaps, have excepted several flowers which I 

 have admitted ; indeed, I see that the Editor of the Gardeners' Gazette condemns 

 Ariel and Glory, declaring them hardly worthy of admittance amongst an 100, 

 but as this gentleman seems rather eccentric in his likes and dislikes, I am not 

 inclined to pay particular attention to him. Pensee. 



D odd's Mary 



Springfield Rival 



Sir H. Fletcher, Richardson's 



Quilled Perfection, Brown's 



Addison 



Countess of Sheffield 



Sulphuria Elegans, Jones's 



Perfection, Widnall's 



Granta, do. 



Corinne, Brown's 



Triumphant, Jefferies' 



Countess of Moreton 



Mary Queen of Scot's, Leod's 



Metropolitan Blush 



Mrs. Wilkinson 



Napoleon, Smith's 



Purple Perfection, Squibb's 



Diadem of Flora 



King Otho 



Beauty of Camberwell 



Angelina 



SirE. Sugden 



Polyphemus, Elphinstou's 



Lilac Perfection 



Hermione 



The Gem, Brown's 



Beauty of Dulwich 



Perfection, Sutton's 



Royal Adelaide, Clark's 



Metropolitan Perfection 



Hon. Mrs. Harris, Scmibb's 



Aurora, Maule's 



Calypso 



Metropolitan Roselle 



Piltdown Rival 



Ariadne, Brown's 



Warminster Rival, Wheeler's 



Venosa, do. 



Dr. Halley 



Glory 



Ariel 



Yellow Perfection, Stones's 



Blue Beard 



Lydia, Brown's 



Queen of Dahlias 



Ada Byron 



Countess of Liverpool 



Fisherton Rival 



Pink Perfection 



Burgundy 



Girling's Rubv 

 Suffolk Hero 

 Madonna 

 Mrs. Broadwood 

 Lady of Oulton 

 Surpass Polyphemus 

 Nulli Secundus 

 Beauty, Brown's 

 St. Leonard's Rival 

 Countess of Jersey 

 King of Beauties 

 Conqueror of Europe 



On the Aroma or Flowers. — Before R. T. W. can expect an answer to his 

 query, December Number, 1836, page 292, concerning " aroma of flowers," he 

 must explain its meaning. C. B. B. 



On the Germination of Old Seeds. — The germination of seed, supposed 

 to have lost their vegetative principle, may be greatly accelerated by immersing 

 them in Oxalic Acid, or putting them in a cloth moistened with the acid. They 

 are not to remain in the cloth any longer after the germination has commenced. 

 By attending to the foregoing, seeds have vegetated after being kept thirty years. 



Jan. 25th. Jacobus. 



Eithorbia Jacqciniflora. — In December last year, I had the pleasure of 

 walking through the superior collections of Exotics in the nursery of Mr. Lowe, 

 of Clapton, and one plant particularly arrested my attention, viz. Euphorbia 

 Jacquinni. It produces a large head of scarlet braeteae, that may be termed its 

 flowers, which are splendid and showy. It deserves a place in every hothouse 

 in the country. The season of its blooming, length of time I was informed it 

 bloomed, several months, alike contribute to inake the plant desirable. 



Ealing, Jan. 3d, 1837. J. A. Smith. 



On the Passion Flower. — As you expressed a wish to receive my small 

 communications, I forward them in time, I hope, for the February number. I am 

 much obliged for your answer respecting the Billiardiera Melocarpa, and hope 

 always to receive so speedy a reply. — " The name Passion Fower is derived from 



