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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



English Irises. I procured of Messrs. Lockhart an entire set, and grew them 

 in an open bed the last summer. Their beauty in colour and variety was quite 

 charming. I got the roots when I had my Hyacinths, in October. I planted 

 one each" when in a forty-eight sized pot, well drained in a compost of rich loam 

 and peat, about equal parts. I placed them in a dry cool frame , protected from 

 frost, through winter. Early in March I turned them out of the pots, with 

 entire balls? and planted them in a raised circular bed. At the end of April 

 they began to bloom, and continued till the close of July. The first week in 

 September I took up the bulbs and preserved them as done to tulips, till the first 

 week of last November, when I potted half of them as before. I have just now 

 potted the other half, hoping, as they will be later, to prolong the blooming 

 season. They well merit every attention. 



Notts, Feb. 2, 184-2. An ardent Amateur Gardeneh. 



The following are the kinds I grew:- 

 Agathon, pure white 

 Aglaurus, slate colour, red spols 

 Alida, pure white, pink mottle 

 Anaxo, black blue 

 Automedon, dove colour, red spots 

 Atlas, porcelain, red spots 

 Atropurpurea, very dark blue", black 



indigo spots 

 Aurora, light bhid spotted 

 Brutus, white, rose spots 

 Chio, milk white, light blue shade 

 Clito, light grey, pink spots 

 Commodore Napier, white, red purple 



spots 

 Constantia, azure blue 

 Coronax, porcelain 

 Diogenes, rosy ground, red carmine 



spots 

 Due d'Anjou, grisdelin 

 Duchess of Kent, white, beautifully 



pencilled with light blue 

 Elizabeth, grey, blue spots 

 Elphinstone, purple 

 Enchantress, mulberry 

 Fingal, bright light blue 

 Flora, extra carmine flake, white ground 

 Grand Protector, rose ground, dis- 

 tinctly margined and spotted with 



crimson 

 Grand Sultan, very dark indigo 

 Homerus, light blue spotted 

 Hyperides, white, red spots 

 Intendant, red maroon 

 La Baute, white, red spots 



La Comtesse, rich red purple 



mulberry 



La Mignonne, rose 



Lord Brougham, navy blue, dark spots 



Lord Derby, Berlin blue 



Manteau Grisdelin, white pencilled 

 with light blue 



Manteau Pourpre, red purple 



Menander, dark rich mulberry 



Minerva, French white 



Minos, rich blue, indigo spots 



Moritz, dark blue, indigo mottle 



Mrs. John Gott, white ground, extra 

 pink mottle 



Naiad, pale blue, dark spots 



Passe Blue Camelot 



Peati de Tigre, white ground, blue 

 mottle 



Pluto, dark blue, spotted 



Pourpre Superbe 



Psyche, white and red 



Quintinus, grey, red purple spots 



Sappho, white, light rosy mulberry spots 



Seraphiua, light mulberry 



Simia, dark flake on indigo 



Sir Mulberry Hawk, rich spotted mul- 

 berry 



Sophocles, white, red spots 



Terpsichore, porcelain, blue spots 



Theron, lilac, red mottle 



Ultra Marine 



Ulysses, light bine 



Waterwitch, blue and white, indigo 

 spots 



On Thunbp.rgias. — By the following mode of treatment I last year grew 

 plants of Thunbergia alata, alata alba, aurea, and aurantiaca, each entirely 

 covering a wire trellis, eight feet high, of a hexagonal form, each augle being 

 one foot broad. At each angle I had one strong upright support, and the cross 

 wires at five inches apart. Early in February I sowed two seeds, each in a sixty 

 sized pot, and placed them in a hot-bed frame. As soon as they filled the pot 

 with roots, I repotted them into thirty-two's, in a compost of equal parts of loam, 

 rotten dung, and peat, with a good drainage. In these pots I ke t >t them in the 

 frame till they were well filled with roots, and when about eight inches high I 

 pinched off the leading shoots, to induce laterals. 1 finally shified them into 

 pots fourteen inches in diameter, having four inches of rough turfy soil as a 

 drainage. When the laterals extended I placed a trellis in each pot, and trained 

 a shoot to each upright at the angles. I kept topping them, for a supply of 



