MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 2C"j 



reatment after planting, they will form blooming bulbs at the third season. — 

 Conductor.] 



On Stocks for Roses. — What is the best kind of stock to bud roses upon ? 

 Being time to procure such, an early reply will much oblige 



A Beginner. 



[Voun; plants of the Rosa Bengalonsis (Boursault of some) is the best: it is 

 a very free grower, and does not, like the briar, become bark-bound or canker. 

 It strikes very freely from cuttings, and to commence with, plants may be pur- 

 chased, in pot3 or otherwise, at a very low rate. Growing very vigorously and 

 rapidly, the production of flowers is numerous and large. — Conductor.] 



On Treatment ok Azalea Indica. — I shall be much obliged if you or any 

 of your correspondents will tell me the best way of growing Indian Azaleas 

 during the winter. After mine had done flowering I let them remain in the 

 greenhouse for a few weeks ; I then repotted them in fresh soil of peat earth, 

 leaf mould, and a little sand, and then placed them in a warm situation in the 

 garden. The last week in August I replaced them in the greenhouse, which was 

 made very hot, till the end of September, in order to prepare them for flowering 

 ne3;t spring ; the house is now of a proper temperature for my Geraniums, 

 having no fire in it at present, but the Azaleas now look yellow and unhealthy. 



A Young Florist and Constant Subscriber. 



[They ought to be placed as near the glass as convenient, and if they have 

 done growing, less water should be given, or the plants will become unhealthy,, 

 especially if they have not a very free drainage. A small mound of earth should 

 be formed round the trunk of the plant, to throw the water given in winter 

 most to the sides of the pots, for if the ball become soddeued (as termed by 

 gardeners), the plant will be sickly and very probably destroyed. Over-potting 

 too is injurious, and plants that are so should be repotted into less. We will 

 give an article on the culture of Indian Azaleas in our next number. — Con- 

 ductor.] 



On Hova carnosa. — Will you be so good as to inform me, through the medium 

 of your very useful publication "The Floricultlral Cabinet," what treatment 

 I ought to pursue for the Hoya cornosa ; that is, what kind of soil, — the time 

 for potting, and the best plan for raising and training it. As early an answer 

 as possible will oblige 



L. B. 



[Cuttings taken off, and cut horizontally close under a join!, taking (he leaf at 

 such joint away, inserted firmly in white sand, and placed in moist heat, readily 

 strike root. When well rooted, pot them in a rich loam and peat soil of equal 

 parts, having a free drainage of potsherds. Care must be taken not to ovtrpot 

 at any time, as the soil then becomes saturated and improper; the plant delights 

 in the fibrous roots cleaving to the side of the pot, its natural tendency to which 

 is evidenced by the shoots, when coming in contact with a moist wall, emitting 

 numerous rootlets. Repot every spring, and if the pot be very full of roots, in 

 the interval remove it entire into a larger size. It requires to be grown in a hot- 

 house to succeed the best ; where such a habitation is not available, the warmest 

 part of a greenhouse, &c, should be selected. Placing it in a hot bed-frame 

 early in the season promotes the production of incipient flowers, after which 

 the plant may be removed to a greenhouse, &c, to bloom. 



Tlie best mode of training the plant is to a wire treilis of some neat and fan- 

 ciful form, as the pretty shapes of the vases now to be seen supply patterns. 

 Such vase-formed wire frames are easily made so as to serve the purposes of 

 displaying the bloom the best to view, whether the flowers are produced erect or 

 drooping; fur the former class, the greater the surface the more room to show, 

 for the latter, the under side is what is required, as by the Hoya carnosa, so that 

 verging ou'.wards the pendant clusters hang apart and are exhibited to full 

 view. Many of the vase forms are peculiarly adapted for this. The bust way 



