260 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



On a List of Twenty-four Phloxes. — The names of 24 of the very best 

 herbaceous Phloxes in the October Number of the Cabinet would much oblige 



A SUBSCRIBER IN WILTSHIRE. 



[Purpurea perfecta, Cultivation, Eye-bright, Oracle, Archduchess, Brillianti, 

 Broughtonia, Bruceii, Beauty, Compacta alba, Cordata grandiflora, Formosa, 

 Glomerata, Jenkinsonia, Lindleyaua, Longiflora purpurea, Louisa, Murrayana, 

 Pendulina, Princesse Clementina, Princesse Marianne, Speciosissima, Striata 

 delicatissima, and Van Houttei. The description of each may be seen in the 

 advertised list inserted in the last March Number of our Magazine. The price 

 will be much lower now than at that season. — Conductor.] 



On sowing Seeds of Hyacinths. — Having seeds of some fine Hyacinths, I 

 am anxious for some information respecting them, proportion of sowing, the 

 description of soil most suited to them, and the general treatment required by 

 them. An answer in your next will much oblige 



Shrewsbury. M. A. II. 



[The seed usually ripens by June or July; when so obtained, sow it a few 

 days after being gathered in a pot or box, in light sandy loam, half an inch 

 deep, and place it in a ccol frame under glass, say a spent cucumber or melon 

 bed ; in three weeks they usually vegetate; they must be kept growing as long 

 as they will, then allowed to become nearly dry, and be so preserved through 

 winter. In February following they would push again; and, if the pot or box 

 is not crowded, they had best be unmoved, and remain to grow so through the 

 season, and be kept dry from the time of their foliage withering till the planting 

 season. About the middle of October they may be carefully taken up and 

 planted at a few inches apart in a box, &c. ; and at the following plauting season 

 they may be planted in the open bed, &c, as is done to full-grown bulbs. We 

 repeat, only just keep the soil for the first two rest seasons from becoming dust 

 dry, not wet, and be kept from frost. Seed collected late had best be sown the 

 first week in April ; it is much more successful than if sown in September or 

 October, as has generally been done in bygone years. — Conductor.] 



On Tobacco Water. — You have often mentioned that tobacco water being 

 applied to plants iufested with green fly, it would destroy the insect. I should 

 be much obliged if you would inform me how the liquid is to be prepared, and 

 how applied. A. B. 



[The liquid is prepared by loiling a proportion of tobacco in a quantity of 

 water for a quarter or even half an hour, and when cool is fit for use. However 

 strong it is it does not in the least injure the plant to which it is applied ; and 

 the stronger it is, the more effectual it answers the intended purpose. To 

 immerse the entire top of a plant in the liquid is best. This, with small plants, 

 is readily done ; larger ones may in general have the branches bent so as to 

 immerse them successively. Where neither can be done, then syringe the under 

 side of the leaves as well as the upper. Sometimes a repetition is required ; it is 

 best to do it as soon as any insect is discovered. AVe have tried the plan on 

 many occasions, and always succeeded. Tobacco water can generally be pro- 

 cured at a tobacco manufactory at about Is. per gallon. Gas water will answer, 

 too ; it must be weakened so as not to he injurious to vegetation. An experi- 

 ment on a waste plant will point out the degree. British-grown tobacco, such 

 as is usually grown in gardens, will answer the purpose in the former case. The 

 mode of preparing it is — pull up the full-grown plants, and hang them, routs 

 upwards, in a glass-roofed green-house, peach-house, or similar place, where the 

 temperature will be 70 or SO degrees, in order to diy. When well dried, dip 

 them in water, and again dry them ; this must be repeated once or twice more ; 

 after which, when quite dry, put them closely in bags, keep in a dry place, and 

 they will be fit for use. When the liquid is to be made, chop up the stalks and 

 leaves, and boil them in a due proportion of water for half an hour. When 

 cool, it may be used. The liquid will keep well corked up tight in bottles, or 

 bunged up close in a cask. — Conductor.] 





