118 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Bow's Suwarrow Pink— Could you or any of your pink growing 

 friends inform me the best method of growing Bow's Suwarrow Pink in order 

 to avoid disease, I selected it from different collections last year, and I 

 have lost them all again ; I may here remark that I have grown it in rich 

 and poor soil, but I cannot keep it more than one year. J- F. 



On Canadian Poplar and Dolichos. — Can you or any of your corre- 

 spondents, kindly inform me of the proper method and season for propagating 

 the Canadian poplar, or what I consider such ; a tall branching tree, having 

 leaves, larger than a man's hand, and which produces no suckers. 



Also how to produce flowers on a Dolichos (of which I am ignorant of the 

 specific name,) the flowers are pink, and about the size of anthylis vulnaria, 

 ( lady's finger) which 1 raised from seed five or six years ago, and have kept 

 in a pot. Does it require a rich soil, and will it bear to have the earth 

 much shaken from the roots in repotting ? F. S. 



On the Cultivation of the Genus Passiflora. — I shall be much ob- 

 liged if you or any of your correspondents can inform me of the best method 

 of cultivating the genus Passiflora in their seyeral departments, in order to 

 ensure an early bloom from young plants, and also as regards their subse- 

 quent management. A Constant Reader. 



On the Flowers of the Camillia falling off before expanding. — 

 Having a number of plants which often going through the regular process 

 generally recommended, such as potting, introducing into heat to moisten 

 and to mature their buds, afterwards being set in a shady situation out 

 of doors during the summer and autumn ; when taken into the greenhouse, 

 the buds keep frequently dropping oft', so that at the time of flowering, in- 

 stead of having several dozen blooms upon a plant, I am disappointed in not 

 having more than one dozen, and in some cases, not one flower — To be in. 

 formed through the medium of the Cabinet in what part of the process 1 am 

 deficient will greatly oblige an Amateur. 



On Wisteria Sinensis — Having' several plants of the Wisteria Sinensis 

 planted in different situations in my garden which grow vigorously but do 

 not blossom, I shall be glad to be informed through the pages of the Cabinet, 

 by you or any of your correspondents of a successful method to make them 

 bloom. — I shall very likely favour you with answers to these queries my- 

 self, A Subscriber. 



ANSWERS. 



On Double Flowering Clarkia. — Through you in answer to Mr. King of 

 Black Heath, relative to the Annual, Double flowering Rose coloured Clarkia 

 which he notices in my advertisement in the Cabinet, ifew I presume, more than 

 Mr. K. having heard of it before I advertised it, though I have had it these 

 last two years, it was imported and flowered at the Nursery of Messrs Rivers 

 last summer, where it was very much, and in my humble opinion, justly ad- 

 mired, for being greatly superior to any of the other varieties in point of 

 colour. The majority of plants, having had flowers, that were strictly speaking, 

 double. 



Being satisfied that even those that came single, were more beautiful than 



