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[In a compost of equal parts sandy peat and rich loam, both from turf which 

 has been collected and laid in a heap for several months, merely chopped up at 

 time of potting, and having a free drainage, the plant will grow vigorously. It 

 blooms freely when kept in a warm greenhouse, or in a gentle plant stove early 

 in spring for a few weeks, and in June taken into the greenhouse. Keep it in a 

 dry greenhouse during winter. — Conductor.] 



On Strei.itzia Rrcin^;. — A lady who has been a Subscriber to the Fi.oui- 

 cultural Cabinet from the commencement would be much obliged by being 

 infoimed of the best means of propagating and managing the Strelitzia reginae. 

 She has a fine plant, which has been only top-dressed for five years, and now it 

 appears capable of being parted ; but her gardener, not feeling confident in his 

 knowledge of the plant, fears to disturb it, lest he should destroy the whole. An 

 early notice of the request will greatly oblige. 



Ipswich, 1844. 



[Offsets taken off with roots, and repotted, soon become established. They 

 scarcely exhibit any alteration at the time when first separated from the parent 

 plant, nor does the latter receive the least injury by the process. We have 

 increased many by the same process. The plants will flourish either in a stove 

 or a warm greenhouse, and grow in large pots or boxes, well drained, in an 

 enriched turfy loam. They will do well either placed on a trellis over a warm 

 flue, or plunged in a baik-pit; the latter is the better. — Conductor.] 



On Wallflowers and Stocks. — It will greatly oblige a great many readers 

 of your most useful work to inform them which is the best way of protecting 

 the Double Wallflower and Stocks from the frosts this winter, as most of us are 

 partial to these beautiful flowers; and most of us would like to know your 

 opinion which kinds of Stock are the finest bloomers, and which come the most 

 double, also which is the best time to sow the seed of Stocks to bloom in the best 

 season. It will greatly oblige to give us information in your next number. 



R. H. P. 



[Our correspondent has not been explicit enough as to his purposes : we beg, 

 however, to inform him that to have early-blooming Stocks the tribe of 

 Brompton's furnish such, and to have later the Ten Weeks'. The former are 

 biennial, enduring two years, the latter annual, or enduring only one year. The 

 Brompton Stocks should be sown the first week in June, and when strong 

 enough be planted out ; if to be out of doors through winter, put them off where 

 to bloom, and protect in winter by furze branches, pricked closely round and tied 

 together, laying four or six inches of dry leaves over the roots, and surrounded by 

 the furze branches, to keep the leaves in proper bounds. Where there is the 

 advantage of a cool but dry frame, some potted off at first, in small pots, and at 

 the approach of winter placed in the frame, or the pots sunk in the ground close 

 under a well-sheltered south-aspected.wall,&c, will generally be preserved in any 

 part of this kingdom. Such should be transplanted, entire, by the end of March, 

 in the situations for blooming. There are a variety of colours. The Giaut is a 

 noble red one : we have seen spikes of flowers two feet long, and a separate 

 blossom two inches across. These come into bloom, ss do the other varieties, at 

 the end of April, and continue to a la'e period in summer. The Annual Stocks, 

 viz , Ten Weeks', Russian, Grrman, &c, are of course raised by an early spring 

 sowing, and transplanted out as early as possible ; these come into bloom by 

 the middle of June, and continue to September. There are numerous colours 

 of these tribes, all well deserving cultivation. Wallflowers are readily preserved 

 uninjured, in the same way as recommended to be adopted with Brompton 

 Stocks. — Conductor.] 



On Heartsease affected with Mildew. — I am a great admirer of the 

 Ileaitsease, and have cultivated them for some years, but for the last three years 

 I have experienced considerable vexation from losing several of my best kinds, 

 from a kind of white mildew with which they have been affected, which spoils 



