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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



REMARKS. 



A LIST OF SUPERIOR GERANIUMS. 



Geranium— Amabile Splendent of 



African. 



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 Alecin ..--.-.-- 3 



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Ariadne - - - - - - - 



Arbaces - - 



Bellissima ------- 



Beauty of Ware - - - - 



Countess of Jersey - - - 



Don Jaime ------- 1 



Piomede -------- 



Francesco -------- i 



Grand .Sultan ------- 1 



Com pactum Rubicum- - - 1 



Piadematuiu Rubesence - 



Rouge et Noir ----- l 



Rembrant -------- l 



Queen Bess ------- 



Mis* Annesley ------ 



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Mennon -------- 



Lady Denbigh ----- 



Tou< lisu.iie ...----- 1 



Mar's - 1 



Queen of trumps - - - - 1 



Lady Ashley ------ I 



Maid of Arlois ----.- 1 



Lydia --------- 1 



Mussidora -------2 



Incarnation ------- 1 



Louis --------- 1 



Maid of Athens ----- 



Hector --------- 



Constance ------- 



Duverrey ------ '- 



Miranda -------- - 



Hericratianum ----- 



Pictum -------- l 



Those I consider very fine flowers, and such as I can strongly recommend. 

 Surrey Lune Nursery, Battened, London. N. Gaines. 



On destroying Ants. — I have at last hit on an expedient of destroying 

 them, and that is merely anointing their runs with gas tar. We use large 

 quantities of it here, for painting doors and fences. I have also found it use- 

 ful in preserving the bark of fruit trees from hares and Rabbits. It should 

 be put on very lightly with a paint brush. 



MR. KERNAn's LETTER. — THE DECEASE OF MR. SABINF. 



Dear Sir, 



I got your letter, and mentioned to Mr. Sabine how his name was omitted 

 as the author of the Article he had desired me to mention to you. He felt 

 pleased at the acknowledgment of the obligations you were under to him. 



But it is a painful truth to me to have to inform you of Mr. Sabine's sud- 

 den death. Never did I receive intelligence that more affected me, as he had 

 been in my shop' the week before, as he was in the habit of being once 

 almost every week when in town. In his death I have sustained a great 

 loss; from his kind and fatherly instruction and advice, and feeling al\va\ s 

 happy in giving me any information he thought would be of service to me. and 

 the great interest he took in recommending me to his friends and their 

 orders. Surely then I have reason to regret his loss, nor can his enemies sav 

 in his early encouragement of so humble and so young a man as myself 

 he could have had any object, it was on his last visit I had talked of yourself 

 and Mr. Marnock, and asked his advice on the following paragraph ; 1 intend 

 putting at the bottom of my Catalogue, as my advice on the blooming of 

 Annuals. 



" It may be questioned why I place some suAnials (heretofore considered 

 and placed in other Catalogues under the heading. Half Hardy.) in 

 my present List — Under Hardy. I do so from practical observations, 

 seeing those I have so removed" to Hardy, when so treated, blooming to 

 much greater perfection than when raised in a hot frame and afterwards 

 transplanted. — One plant, raised in the open border, will generally grow 

 to six times the size of one raised in heat and transplanted. In sowing 

 Annuals in the open border that are rather tender, if the soil is not light 

 and sandy, give a top dressing of pit sand and rotten manure : smooth 

 this well with the rake — then draw very shallow drills from half an inch 

 to one inch in depth, regulated by the size of the seeds — sow and 

 coYer in i if vermin or the season do not desturb them, y&u will not 



