MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 1l 



succeeded in by taking some spirit of turpentine, and pouring a portion into a 

 glass bottle, taking care the spirit was smeared all over the inside of the bottle. 

 I then turned the bottle upside down, and put the neck of the hotile in the hole 

 leading to the nest, doing so alter dusk. The next morning 1 found every 

 wasp dead. Mary. 



Evesham, July 20th, 1844. 



Glycine sinensis. — Last year, in August, I had a number of shoots of a 

 Glycine sinensis thinned out of a plant growing against a south-aspected wall, 

 and I cut up a quantity into short pieces, having three or four buds in each, 

 cutting straight through close under a joint ; these were inserted firm in pots of 

 fine yellow pit-sand, and were plunged in a hot-bed frame, where had been a crop 

 of melons. By the early part of October I found nearly every cutting had 

 rooted ; and now I have plants enough to serve a nurseryman. This lovely 

 flowering plant deserves to be grown wherever it can. A Curate. 



On Bouvardia triphyi.la. — This very interesting scarlet trumpet honey- 

 suckle like beautiful flower, becomes one of the prettiest objects grown in the 

 greenhouse, when trained up to a single stem, and a head is formed similar to a 

 dwarf standard Rose. So treated, it blooms most profusely, and the numerous 

 heads of fine scarlet flowers, slightly drooping, and in bloom from May to 

 November, renders the plant one of the most ornamental, and deserving a place 

 in every greenhouse. The same method of treatment is equally successful with 

 B. Jacqumii, B. versicolor, &c. Conductor. 



FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MARCH. 



Amaryllises, and other liliaceous bulbous plants which have been kept 

 dormant, may now be re-potted, and put into an increased temperature. 



Annuals, Hardy, such as Clarkias. Nemophilas, Larkspurs, &c. — If the soil 

 be moderately dry, some of the most hardy kinds, to bloom early in the summer, 

 may be sown in warm parts of the country, or situations well protected, but in 

 cold places not until the end of the month ; for if the seeds of many sorts begin 

 to vegetate, and frost operate upon them, they are often destroyed. The best 

 method of sowing the small seeds in patches is to have a quantity of finely sifted 

 soil ; spread a portion where desired ; after scattering the seed, sprinkle a little 

 more soil over them, and then press it closely upon the seeds, which will assist 

 them in vegetating properly. 



Annuals, Tender, such as Cockscombs, Balsams. Stocks, &c. — Such as have 

 been sown, and may be up, should have all possible air given to prevent their 

 being drawn up weakly. In watering those in pots they must not be watered over 

 the tops, or many of the sorts will be rotted by it. The best method is to flood 

 over the surface of each pot, always using water that is new-milk warm. Those 

 annuals sown in frames must be watered (when requisite) with a very fine 

 syringe, or pan-rose to sprinkle with ; but the best plan is to take advantage of 

 gentle rains. For any seeds yet requiring to be sown, use fine soil pressed to the 

 seeds ; and. when convenient, place the pots (if used) in moist heat till the 

 plants are up. Cockscombs, Amaranthus, Balsam, Biowallia, Brachycoma, Thun- 

 bcrgias, Maurandias, &c, if large enough to pot, should be done in sixty-sized pots. 



Auricl'las. — Those requiring top-dressing should be done immediately, by 

 taking off about two inches deep of the top-soil, replacing it with some very rich ; 

 more than one-half of it should be rotten cow-dung two yi ars old, and the rest 

 loam and sand. Immediately after this dressing, let the soil be well settled by a 

 free watering. By ihe end ot the month the unexpended blossoms will be nearly 

 full grown ; no water must he allowed to fall on them, or the blossoms would be 

 liable to surfer injury by it. All possible air may be admitted to the plants 

 during the day. only screen from cutting frosty wiuds. 



Campanuia pyramidalis — to have fine pot specimens, should be pitted, if 

 not before done, and encouraged to grow. 



