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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



den ; but as I have not loom for growing 

 a descriptive list of kinds given in an ear 



BINET. 



[The following List contains all the be 



Albicans, blush, 

 Antwerpiensis, rosy while. 

 Bamesii, flesh colour. 

 Burleyana, changeable white. 

 Brownliana, fine lilac. 

 Buistii, lilac. 

 Bride, pure white, fine. 

 Chandlerii, bright scarlet. 

 Charlwoodii, puce. 

 Ccerulescens, beautiful blue. 

 Delicata, rosy pink. 

 Elfordiensis, light purple. 

 Elegans, pink, light eye. 

 Edmondii, fine pink. 

 Eximia, rosy pink. 

 Fair Maid, salmon blush, rose eye. 

 Fanny Elslur, fine white. 

 Goesiana, lilac. 

 Grenvillii, puce, fine. 

 Groomiana, orange scarlet. 

 Hendersoni, purple. 

 Hestopiana, scarlet, fine. 

 Ignescens, fiery scarlet. 

 Ignea, scarlet. 

 Ingramii, crimson shaded. 

 Incisa, pink. 

 Iveriana, dark rose. 

 King, dark rose, light eye. 

 Laconi, puce. 

 Lillicina, flesh colour. 

 Melindres, scarlet. 

 Magnifica, scarlet. 

 Majestica, fine pink. 

 Macnabiana, dark scarlet. 

 Melindres major, scarlet. 

 Maxima, bright rose. 



all the kinds, I should be glad to have 

 ly number of the Floricultural Ca- 



Louisa. 

 st we know. — Conductor.] 



Magnum bonum, large lilac. 



Ne Plus Ultra, light pink. 



Nairnii, blush. 



Neillii, fine lilac. 



Odorata superba, lilac. 



Pulcherrima, lavender. 



Punicia, large rose. 



Purpurea, fine purple. 



i elegans, purple. 



Pre-emiuent, dark rose, extra fine. 



Perfection, rosy lake. 



Queen, white. 



Rosea elegans, light rose. 



rubra, pink, rose eye. 



■ magniflora, bright lose. 



Rubra, red. 



elegans, deep red. 



Sanguinea, large rose. 

 Salmonii, fine salmon. 

 Spleudens, crimson. 

 Stewartii, mulberry. 

 Superba, rosy pink. 

 Spleudida, rich crimson. 

 Triumphant, scarlet. 

 Thompsonii, white. 

 Taglioni, flesh, large. 

 Teucroides ccerula, flesh. 



purpurea, purple. 



rosea, rose. 



Tweediana grandiflura, rosy crimson. 



rosea, rose. 



superba, rich crimson. 



Unique, purple. 



Van Gendii, fine lilac, dark edge. 

 Van Gertii, fine rosy lilac. 

 Variegata, scarlet. 



On an Apparatus suitable vor raisins Seeds in, &c. — An amateur would 

 be glad to know if an apparatus for raising seed or cuttings would answer on a 

 small scale, say by water heated with a lamp, with charcoal, or otherwise (See 

 page 71 in March Cabinet). If you or your readers could oblige me with a 

 description of the most likely plan, I should feel obliged. 



An Amateur. 



On Gladiolus N atalensis. — I have just taken up the bulbs of the above, and 

 dried them ; but I wish to know whether it is right to pull off a mass of roots, 

 apparently that cleaves to the bottom of some of the bulbs, or should I leave 

 such untouched, and reset them so entire in the spring. There are also many 

 rootlets, which I wish to know whether they should be pulled off" when dry or 

 allowed to remain; also a great many offsets, not much bigger than large pin 

 heads; should these be reset, and how long will they be before they form 

 flowering bulbs ? Gladiolus. 



[All roots or small bulbs should remain till the time to plant the old bulbs ; 

 then the progeny may be taken off and planted too. If taken off some length 

 of time before planting, being small, they often shrivel to death ; by proper 





