MISCELLANEOUS IXTKLLIGEN C£. '2 1 1 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On a List of bulbous and early spring flowering Punts.— Will you 

 fellow me to thank your Correspondent, " An Old Subscriber," for the useful 

 list ot annual, biennial, and perennial flowers in jour number for March 

 1835, and to remind him at the same time that a promise of a similar list of 

 the best bulbous and early spring plants have not yet appeared. The intro- 

 duction into my garden of most of the flowers contained in his former list 

 has given so gay, nay, I may say, splendid appearance to it during the 

 summer and antumn months, that I am extremely anxious to obtain a similar 

 display of beauty tor those of the spring, which I have no doubt the kind- 

 ness of ycur correspondent wi'l enable me to procure. Philo Flos. 



Can you or any of your correspondents inform me if saw dust can by any 

 process be rendered a fit manure for flowers. I two years ago top dressed 

 my beds with oak saw dust, one year old, and nearly rotten, but it killed 

 many, and much injured most of the annuals that happened to have been 

 planted out about a fortnight before. Perhaps the tanning contained in the 

 oak may be prejudicial to Mowers? Would a mixture of lime neutralise it r 



Philo Flos. 



On Delphinium Chinensis albiflora, &c. — A Subscriber to the Floii- 

 cultural Cabinet would be glad to be informed where Delphinium Chi- 

 nensis albillora, figured in the (Cabinet of November 1831) is to be obtained. 

 He has bought several purporting to be the sort mentioned but they have 

 invariably turned out the single blue species, a trick he is sorry to say of 

 very common occurence with some nurserymen. An early answer will ob- 

 lige. — He would also be glad to know where CEnorthcra anesiloba is to be 

 had. 



On the best Season for sowino Pansey Seed— I have collected during 

 the three first weeks of August a quantity of pansey seed, but am at a loss 

 to know whether to sow it this season, or defer it till sprint. I was afraid 

 to sow it now, lest the plants should be too weaklv to endure the winter, 

 yet I thought if I could secure the plants through" winter, 1 should have 

 strong plants for blooming early next season. 1 should be glad if some 

 reader of the Cabinet, who has had experience in this particular, would 

 give a paper upon it. saying how late, if this season, seed may be sown, and 

 i Ik; plants treated so as to abide through winter. And if not till spring, how 

 to treat them the successive period of the year. An early compliance with 

 his request will much oblige, A Lad v. 



ANSWERS. 



On destroying tii-'. Ckf.en Fly Insect infesting the rose, Sic. In a 



former Cabinet " Rosa" wishes to know how to destroy the green My insects, 

 mi rose trees, in the cheapest, easiest, and most effectual manner. I would re- 

 commend him to throw with great force, handfuls of fine sand (sea sand, 

 it he is near the coast, as I am, is cheap enough ) and ho will find his trees 

 1 rj soon clean and healthy. Probably coal ashes reduced very line, 

 might snswci ai well as sand, but I have never tried it. CALCEOLARIA. 



