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Mina lob ata. — A plant which has been raised from seed by Mr. Wilson, 

 gardener to the Earl of Burlington, and which his Lordship has presented to 

 the London Horticultural Society. The habit of the plant is that of a crimson 

 lobed-leaved Ipomsa; but the blossoms are produced in erect forked racemes, 

 and are of a very different form to a Convolvulus. It is, however, a very hand- 

 some flowering plant for the greenhouse. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On the Trop.-eolum tricoi.okuji. — I should feel obliged by some one, in an 

 early number of the Cabinet, giving me some information on the culture of 

 Tropaeolum tricolorum. 



Durham, January 14, 1S4-. A Young Gauukner. 



[The other kind our correspondent named he may procure seed cheap, and 

 sow as done with the common kind. — Conductor.] 



On Treatment ok Salpigi.ossis linearis, &c. — As a subscriber to your 

 Fi.oricui.tural Cabinet, and a young beginner in the art of gardening, I beg 

 the insertion of the following queries : — 



How is the Saluiglossis linearis (Nierembergia intermedia) cultivated ? 

 Should it be grown in a greenhouse or stove ? I find it grows very well in the 

 open borders in summer. Will some one of your correspondents please to give 

 the whole of the routine cultivation of Gloxinias frorh seeds? Where can the 

 Lethenaultia biloba be procured, and the price ? What is the best way to pro- 

 pagate Roses from seeds to obtain new varieties ? that is, when should the seeds 

 be sown, where, &c. ? Will some reader, acquainted with the subject, give it at 

 an early opportunity P I have a few other queries to make, but as I fear I shall 

 trespass too much on your pages at present, will defer them till some future 

 period. 



Ryde, November 4, 1841. R. Y. 



[Young plants should be raised from cuttings or seed every season. The best 

 time is, sow seed about May in pols, and transplant singly into small-sized 

 ones, and keep there in an open frame or similar situation till October, when 

 they should be protected either in a cool diy frame or a dry greenhouse; they 

 aie liable to damp off in a moist situation; this is especially the case with old 

 plants. In potting, the plants must have a free drainage, and be kept high in 

 the centre of the pot. Cuttings taken off in May, struck in moist peat, potted 

 off, and treated as directed for seedlings, answer equally well. Young plants are 

 much more certain to endure without damage through winter than old ones. 

 An essential point with any is to keep them from damp, and not in a high tem- 

 perature; that soon injures them. The Lechenaultiabdoba may be had of most 

 nurserymen at from 2f. to 3s. M. per plant. The other queries will no doubt 

 have the attention of our readers as requested of them. — Conductor.] 



On Putrid Yeast as a Manure for Auriculas. — Your correspondent, Mr. 

 William Harrison, whose worthy contributions I am sure all your readers must 

 admire, makes an extract in his paper on the cultivation of the Auricula from 

 some person who advises the use of putrid yeast as a manure for floweis. Perhaps 

 some of your readers may have made the experiment, and will favour you with 

 tin- proportion used, and 'its effects on the plant that the experiment was made 

 upon. 



Your constant reader, 



Limehouse, January 17, 184 1. Dahl, 



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