140 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On the Frittalaria. — I shall feel obliged if you will inform me through 

 the medium of the Floricultural Cabinet your treatment of Frittalarias \ 

 what soil is best adapted for them ? and the proper time for planting, and 

 also the best me&od for preserving them during the winter 



Adolescens. 



Ok the Flower Buds of Camellias dropping off, &c, — Will any of 

 fhe numerous readers of the Floricultural Cabinet inform me the reason ot 

 the buds of the Camellia falling off in scales, when they have attained (he 

 size of a moderate gooseberry, and an effectual, yet as simple a preventive 

 as possible. I bought a Plant in March (a white variety) with fourteen 

 buds on it, and out of the fourteen, 1 dont expect more than three or four 

 will expand. Adolescens. 



ANSWERS. 



To Pelagonium on the double Rose Clarkia. — The double rose Clarkia 

 is a variety ol Clarkia elegans rosea, with beautiful double flowers. This 

 is at present rare, it requires care in marking for seed plants, the flowers 

 of which are quite double ; the seed I advertised had been saved from plants 

 so selected, which induced me to put fins after it, and with similar care 

 for a season or two, this tine annual will become a permanent ornament! to 

 our flower gardens. It is in my opinion as superior to Clarkia elegans as 

 Pelargonium Dennis's Perfection is to Pelargonium Quercifolium. 



Great Rutsetl Street, Covent Garden London. J. Kernan. 



On the Canadian Poplar, &c. — In your last number, page 118 one of 

 your Correspondents, F. S. inquires the proper method and season for propa- 

 gating the Canadian Poplar— He may safely do so by layering it in March or 

 April, the layers will be fit to plant out in the following November : it may be 

 done by grafting upon the black Italian Poplar, but not with the same cer- 

 tainty of suecess, nor are the grafted plants so durable, being subject to be 

 overpowered by the shoots from the same stock, unless kept pruned off. To 

 the same inquirer, I beg to suggest he should repot his Dolichos now if not 

 already done in a light rich soil, shaking only part of the old ball off, 

 place it in an airy situation in the greenhouse, and when it begins to grow 

 freely, often syringe it with clean water, and there is no doubt of its flower- 

 ing freely. 



On the same page a " Subscriber" inquires the best method of making 

 Wistonia Sinensis bloom, I have a plant, which I think has been planted 

 nbout four years, that grows very vigourously and blooms very abundantly ; 

 (I think you saw and admired it much last year, tee saw it, a most beautiful 

 specimen Editor;) It grows in the open garden, has no protection, and in 

 order to make it bloom I twisted it round the stake about nine feet high. 

 I attribute its free flowering to the check it received by being twisted round 

 the, stake, just after the same manner as the Major Convolvolus twists itself 

 round and round any stick within its reach. If the above remarks are 



