262 MISCELLANEOUS INTELL1 OUNCE. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES 



On Stenactis Speciosa. — I have raised from seed a number of plants of 

 the Stenactis Speciosa. I can find no such, name in Sweet's catalogue, or 

 any other book of reference in my profession, will you have the kindness to 

 inform melin your November number, whether they are worth keeping, and if 

 they are hardy, or will live through the winter in the open ground. I cannot 

 recollect from whence 1 had the seeds unless it was Chiswick Gardens. 



Sep. 6th, 1837. S. W. 



[The plant is quite hardy, herbaceous perennial. When raised from seed 



the first season it usually produces a large proportion of foliage, but 



in successive seasons, less foliage and more bloom, and the large bluish 



purple aster like flowers are very showy. — Conductor. 



On preserving Geraniums through Winter.— Can you advise me of 

 any plan to save through the winter, geraniums turned out of pots into bor- 

 ders early in September, and are grown so large as tOjbecome doubtful if they 

 can again be got into pots with a hope of preserving their lives? — can you 

 or any of your readers inform me if the plant of the Rev. Mr. Williamson, 

 by cutting oil' the leaves, and fibres, and preserving them in sand in a cellar 

 or dry place has been found to answer ? any information you can afford me 

 (early) on this subject, will greatly oblige your sincere well wisher. 



Tedro. 

 If the plants be taken up with as many of the fibrous roots as can be got, 

 and they are placed in pots, boxes, or baskets, with good soil, .well 

 watered at the time of planting, and then put where they can be pro- 

 tected during winter, in a greenhouse, frame, or room, they will survive 

 well. Care must be taken after the first watering, not to repeat it fre- 

 quently at the roots, till the shoots begin to push, or the tender fibres 

 would most likely perish. If the heads be too large, they maybe cut 

 in at the time of replanting in the boxes, &c, only allow a shoot, or 

 shoots to remain upon the plants which has foliage, this materially con- 

 tributes to their rooting. A sprinkling of water occasionally over the 

 foliage after planting in the boxes, &c, will be beneficial. We have 

 kept a hundred plants in a small box, in this way, and not one died. 

 Early in April we usually took olf a lot of new shoots and struck them 

 for turning out in May, the larger old plants, for the middle of a bed, 

 and the younger (new struck ones) for the 6ides. These made uniformity 

 of appearance in the bed, being highest at the centre, and gradually 

 declining to the side. We have not tried the plan of the Heverend 

 Mr. Williamson. — Con micros. 



ANSWERS. 



On Dlli'iunuh Chinensis alba.— John Young begs to say to the En- 

 quirer for Delphinum chinensis alba, that he will be happy to supply it at 

 list prices w ni to the Editor, (Is. 6d. each) and il the order amounts to 

 twenty shillings, he viill pay carriage to London Nursery, Taunton, Somer- 

 setshire. 





