22 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



On the Manettia Grandiflora. — I should feel obliged if you, or some one 

 of your numerous subscribers, would, in an early number of your Cabinet, give 

 me some information as to the culture and treatment of the, Manettia. I 

 have it trained to the back wall of the Greenhouse for the last two years, and 

 have not yet flowered it. An Irish Subscriber. 



On Acacia prostrata, and Ipom«a Horsfallia. — I have a plant of the 

 Acacia prostrata, the shoots of which are six feet long from the pot. Being 

 at a loss as to the mode of training it so as to produce the best effect. I should 

 be exceedingly obliged if any of your numerous correspondents would inform me 

 of any plan which they may adopt. An early reply would oblige 



3 R. W. C. 



P. S. Is the Ipomsa Horsfallia hardy enough for a warm greenhouse. 1 ' 



[Yes, we have seen it flourish so situated. — Conductor.] 



On a descriptive list of Epacris, &c. — If one of the numerous readers of 

 the Cabinet would give a descriptive list of all the known species of that lovely 

 tribe of plants the Epacris, with a few hints as to cultivating thein successfully, 

 you would oblige 



A constant Reader and Subscriber. 



Isle of Wight, 5th December, 1841. 



P. S. I should also be obliged for a list of about two dozen of the most 

 handsome and freest blooming Stove Plants, as I want to increase my col- 

 lection. 



ANSWER. 



Plants to cover a bank under trees in the pleasure ground, &c- — In 

 November number of our last Volume, at page 251 , in answer to a correspondent, 

 we gave a list of plants suitable, but omitted to state that all the Ayrshire Roses, 

 and the rapid growing ones of what are termed evergreen roses, are admirably 

 adapted for the purpose. Ten years ago we had a bank planted, and in three 

 years the plants had spread so much as to form bushes from six to twelve feet 

 across, and were, in the season, a most beautiful object. Some plants were 

 placed about four feet from, but so as to train up the trunks of the trees, which 

 gave additional interest to the scene. — Conductor. 



REMARKS. 



On Grafting the Fuchsia, &c. — When so many effort^ are making, in every 

 direction, to create uew varieties of that beautiful tribe of plants, the Fuchsia, 

 which has acquired additional impetus from the importation of the F. fulgens 

 and F. corvmbiflora, it mav afford information to some of your readers to be in- 

 formed of an experiment made in this neighbourhood, which has been, so far as 

 it has proceeded, completely successful. 



Mr. Mercer, the gardener at Crawfurd Priory Garden, in Fifeshire, had a 

 large plant of Fuchsia Riccartoni growing in a pot ; he grafted the F. fulgens 

 upon it by approach, of course allowing the different plants to remain until he 

 found that they had entirely coalesced or grown together. He then, in the usual 

 way, removedthe proper head of the stock (F. Riccartoni) and the lower part of 

 the graft, or F. fulgens, so that the stock of F. Riccartoni was left with a fine 

 plant of the F. fulgens growing on it. Although this operation was only per- 

 formed last spring, yet the head F. fulgens flowered and fruited well. When I 

 saw the plant, in October last, the stock was standing about five feet high (in- 

 cluding the pot) from the ground, with a diameter of between two and three 

 inches; the graft, F. fulgens, only about three quarters of an inch in diameter, 

 rises about a loot and a half, and has a fine spreading head, so that the plant 

 stands nearly seven feet high from the ground. 



A nurseryman who has seen it considers it as the first experiment which has 

 been made to break the individuality, if I may call it so, of the F. fulgens, (all 



