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PART II. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



In consequence of our wish to continue our account of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society's Show, we have been obliged to omit our List of New and Rare 

 Plants till next Number. 



QUERIES. 



On a List of Superb Pinks. — It being the season for planting Pinks to 

 bloom next year, I shall be glad of a list of some of the best kinds in the next 

 number of the Cabinet. Amicus. 



The following kinds were those which obtained the prizes at the ezcellent ex- 

 hibition of them at the London Floricultural Society, and some of them exceeded 

 in perfection all we ever previously seen. 



First best 12; Mr. Norman, Bull-fields, Woolwich.— Earl of Uxbridge, 

 Cooper's King Alfred, Norman's Henry, Bexley Hero, Omega, Harleston's 

 Prince Albert, Garrett's Alpha, Wilmer's Duchess of Kent, Cousins's Little 

 Wonder, Creed's President, Norman's Defiance, Church's Bohemia. Mr. Nor- 

 man had the best single specimen of red-edged, viz. Creed's President. 



By Mr. Bragg. — Duke of Wellington, Lady Flora Hastings, Bexley Hero, 

 Dry's No. 2, Dido, Weedon's Queen, Cousins's Seedling, Norman's Defiance, 

 Lady Holland, Alpha, Seedling No. I. 



By Mr. Bridges. — Omega, Wilmer's Queen, Kent Heio, Lady Hallowell, 

 Beauty of Kent, Beauty of Twyford, Coronation, Little Wonder, Morning Star, 

 Hodges' 186, Woodly Conqueror. 



By Mr. Wilrr.er. — Wilmer's Prince of Wales, Harleston's Prince Albert, 

 Wilmer's Seedling, Wilmer's Sarah, Collins' s Conservative, Wells's Rival, Wil- 

 mer's Queen Victoria, Omega, Barrett's Conqueror. 



Best red-laced, single specimen; Mr. Norman. — Creed's President. Best 

 purple-lactd, ditto, ditto, ditto. — Keynes's Ne Plus Ultra. 



Seedlings of 1841, six blooms, Mr. Brcwn, Slough, for Garland, first class 

 prize; Mr. Willmer, Sunbury, for Cooper's Prince Albeit, second class prize. 



Seedlings of 1842, one bloom. — Mr. Norman, for Princess Royal, first class 

 prize; Mr. Brown, for Model, first class prize; Ditto, for Eclipse, first class 

 prize ; Mr. Willmer, for Prince of Wales, first class prize ; 5 Ditto, for Attila, 

 second class prize ; Ditto, for Maid of Middlesex, second class prize; Ditto, for 

 Black Prince, second class prize. 



On a Monthly List of Flowering Plants eor a Grf.enhouse. — Fond of 

 the flowers that strew our passage through this valley, and cheer and brighten it 

 too, I fee with regret the decay of many, and untaught with the facilities of a 

 greenhouse capable of heat by pipes for hot water, which is 25 feet by 13, I am 

 about to trespass upon your good-nature, either to give me a list of sweet flowers 

 so to succeed each other as to prevent the regret, or rather change it into pleas- 

 ing anticipation of other beautiful varieties, suited for each month; or if too 

 fully occupied yourself, I hope some of your correspondents will favour me with 

 such a list, only premising that a limited purse may be indulged accordingly. 



Your constant subscriber, 



J. C. B. 



On cutting down Pelargoniums, &c. — If you think it worth while (through 

 the medium of the Cabinet) to give me your opinion of the merits of the in- 

 closed Seedling Petunia, I shall be much obliged. [It appeared nothing un- 

 common. — Conductor.] 



I have seen many fine Geraniums weakened, and others killed by the loss of 

 Rap when cut dowrr after flowering, and have failed in devising a remedy for this 

 evil as well as in seeking to find one in the experience of others. As the season 

 for pruning geraniums draws near, a lew remarks on the subject by some person 



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