i'3& MIKKJJtLLANEOvJS lMElL?GXKCi, 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES 



On the Colours of Dahlias. — The difficulty which occurs in ascertain- 

 ing the real colours of Dahlias, causes very considerable confusion, and 

 unpleasantness between exhibitors have frequently arisen in consequence. 

 Would it not effect the desired object if each Floricullural Society were to 

 have a specimen card of colours, and for each exhibitor to purchase one, 

 or have them gratis, at the time each exhibitor enters for competition. 



It such cards of colours were obtained by every society from one source, 

 a general correct understanding of each colour would prevail. 



Middlesex, Aug. 18th. |W, W. 



On pruning Rhododendrons. — What should be done with respect to 

 Rhododendrons when they grow straggling, as I am afraid of cutting 

 them, lest I should injure the bloom for next spring. If some reader of the 

 Cabinet, who has had practical instruction, would favour me with a reply, I 

 should be greatly obliged. Kalmia. 



[We have frequently cut in straggling growing Rhodedendrous, and they 

 have made fine showy plants by the second summer. The time we 

 have cut in the branches wa.s early in April. Several young shoots 

 were generally produced upon each branch, and lest they should be too 

 close we thinned out a portion, and left not more than three or four. 

 By cutting in the branches at this early season, the plants were not 

 onlj r more certain to push shoots than if cut late, but the young shoots 

 had time before the autumn to grow vigorously, and be sufficiently rip- 

 ened to withstand the effects of severe frosts without injury ; whereas, 

 if cut late in summer, the young shoots would be so tender as to be 

 very liable to suffer by frost. 

 The young shoots produced by cutting in the branches, has never pro- 

 duced bloom till the second season. Where a plant has a few short 

 branches, and a number of straggling ones, the latter may be cut and 

 the former left, which, if thev have flower buds upon them, will produce 

 a bloom, and the branches cut in push new shoots. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 



New Plants, &c— ■ Calchortw venustus and C. tphndens, these are now in 

 bloom, and are highly deserving a place in every flower garden, we gave 

 figures of them soon after their introduction into thiscouutry. 



Sjrirea Japoniai. This new species, producing white flowers, is very neat 

 and handsome, and well deserves cultivation. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, 

 flowering very profusely. 



Anaeallis Phiilipsil. We gave a figure of this plant some time ago. It is 

 a most profuse bloomer, of a splendid blue colour, and the flowers of a large 

 size. It is a charming plant for the greenhouse or open border. A bed of 

 it is splendid. 



Peintemon Murryomu'. is a rtir>?r splendid flowering plant, producing when 

 grown in the open border in summer, spikes n( flowers six feet high- We 

 have seen some even higher. 



