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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On the Culture of Primulus, &c. — Will eome of your obliging Con- 

 tributors favour me with the best mode of cultivation, and soil, and treat- 

 ment for the Primula farinosa, longifolia, verticulata, cortusoides, minima, 

 and integrifolia. 



Also, will you inform me where 1 can purchase Convolvulus pentanthus, 

 and Ipomcea Horsfollii, good strong plants at a reasonable price. 

 Stratford, 10th May 1837. 



[We have the latter plant at Downham Nursery, at a low price. — Cond.] 



REMARKS. 



G»illardia picta. — This very beautiful flowering plant, deserves a place 

 in every flower garden, or greenhouse. Its very showy blossoms, produced 

 in such profusion, render it a valuable acquisition. 



Mimulus Hodsonii, a fine flowering variety, has been raised between M. 

 roseas ; and M. cardinalis. It has the habit of the latter, and the blossom 

 of the former, being of a fine rose colour, but a superior shape to the 

 flower of the original roses. It has been named M. Hodsonii in compliment 

 to the superabundant of the Bury St. Edmund Botanic Garden. It has 

 bloomed in the garden at that place. 



Mimulus Claptonia. — A new variety raised by Mr. Law of the Clapton 

 Nursery, bttween M. variegatus and M. cardinalis. The plant has the ha- 

 bit of the laster, and the flowers of the former, but of a deeper colour. 



Clianthus puniceus. — We have seen many of this beautiful flowering 

 plant, succeed admirably, trained against a south aspected wall, and against 

 a trellis on a south border. In both situations the plants bloomed freely, 

 and are protected by matts or reeds in winter. If turned in the open ground 

 in summer, and be taken up for winter, it does well — Use a rich soil. 



Solanum Herrertia. — This hothouse species now blooms ; its fine blue 

 flowers produce a beautiful appearance. It is the handsomest of the species 

 we have seen, and well deserves a place in the plant stove. Mr. Young of 

 Epsom has plants of it in bloom. 



Deutzia scabra. — This handsome shrubby plant has produced its lovely 

 white blossoms so profusely, as to strike the attention of all who have seen it 

 in bloom. The racemes of blossoms being much like a syringe in miniature, 

 or resembling the andromeda pulverleata, or floribunda. The beauty of 

 a large bush of it, is beyond description ; the plant being so cheap, of easy 

 culture, and growing very freely, well deserves a place in every shrub 

 border or greenhouse. It blooms admirably well when placed in a room. 



Mimosa prostrata. — This plant is admirably adapted for training around 

 a wire trellis. Such as we noticed early this year in the Cabinet. Its long 

 branches throwing out a great number of lateral shoots, which hang pendant 



