186 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



SciIOMBURQKIATIBIClNUS-GRANDlFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED. (Bot. Reg. 30.) 



This is a noble variety of a lovely Orchideous genus. It has bloomed in the 

 collection of Robert Hanbury, Esq. The pseudo bulbs being filteen inches long, 

 and the flower-stem five feet high. Each blossom is near three inches high. 

 Sepals and petals brown, with lilac-pink towards their origin. The lip is 

 3'ellow, with a few streaks of red. It deserves to be in every collection. 



Spirea Lindleyana. Dr. Lindley's Spirea. (Bot. Reg. 33.) Roseaceae. 

 Losandria Penragynia. It is a native of the Himalayas ; a fine tall shrub, 

 flowering abundantly from June to September. During three winters it stood 

 in the open ground uninjured ; but it was killed down as far as the ground ; it 

 is again shooting up. The flowers are numerously produced, in large terminal 

 branching panicled heads; white. The shrub has bloomed in the garden of 

 the London Horticultural Society, and well deserves to have a place in every 

 shrub border. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On the Tree Carnation. — An old subscriber to the Fi.oriculturai. Ca- 

 binet will he obliged for some information on the culture and habits of the Tree 

 Carnation,' and if it will live in a cool greenhouse? Will the Mandevillea 

 suaveolens bloom in the same situation? It has lived through the winter, and 

 made some shoots this spring, but is always covered with the green fly. 



[A strong infusion of chamomile or tobacco water, sprinkled liberally over and 

 under-side the foliage, or suffocate by smoke, will readily kill the insects, and 

 the plant may easily be kept free in future. Stop them at first appearance. The 

 Mandevillea will bloom freely in a warm greenhouse. The Tree Carnation will 

 do in any good greenhouse, and requires no more than the common attention of 

 a rich loamy soil, and to have a liberal drainage. It is easily increased by layers. 



Conductor.] 



Geraniums — Having a few good ones in my greenhouse, I am anxious to in- 

 crease my collection. Will any correspondent furnish me with a list of the 

 newest and best ? likewise the best method of propagating by seed ? 



Evesham, June 20, 1845. M. A. 



An answer in your next will oblige. 



REMARKS. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE GARDENS AND COLLECTIONS OF 

 PLANTS AT EALING PARK, NEAR LONDON. 



[Continued from p. 144.] 



The following are a few, and a few only, of the plants which compose this 

 part of the collection: — Phoenocoma prolifera, 3 feet high, and 3 feet across; 

 there are two of these dense bushes, one of them is 4 feet through, and coming 

 into bloom ; Dillwynia subumbellata, 2 feet 6 inches high, and the same in 

 diameter — a fine plant ; Chorozema cordatum, 7 feet high, and 5 feet through — 

 a monstrous plant, loaded with flowers ; also Chorozema ericoides, fine ; Antho- 

 cercis littorea, in flower, well grown, and 3 feet high ; the old Coral-tree, 6 feet 

 high, and 5 feet across, with 15 spikes of flower coming up, will shortly be a 

 maguificent object ; Chironia frutescens, very fine; and Stylidium fasciculare, 

 like a huge bush ; Babingtonia camphorosmse, in good health ; likewise three 

 enormous plants of Chorozema varium ; Hardeubergia Comptouiana, on a trellis, 



