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of an orange red, with a small bright-yellow eye. The small plant had been 

 purchased for five guineas. 



Coleonema pui.ciira. — The Diosma-like flowers of this pretty plant are of a 

 handsome pink colou r. It well deserves a place in every greenhouse. 



(To be continued.) 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Ranunculuses, Tulips, &c. — You would oblige me very much by giving 

 me some directions for raising Tulips from seed, and also to give me the distin- 

 guishing properties of a good Tulip, to enable me to judge of my seedlings. 

 Please give me some directions for crossing, &c. ; and by telling me where and 

 at what price I might procure a root of Brookes's scarlet and gold Ranunculus, 

 a bulb of Brown's Polyphemus Tulip, and if you will enumerate and describe six 

 good Tulips that will answer the pocket of 



A Juvenile Florist. 



P.S. What is the meaning of Tulips in a breeder state? (Seep. 16 of the 

 January Number.) An early answer will much oblige. 

 Ballykilbeg, 16th January, 1843. 



On Liquid Manure. — I often observe that liquid manure is recommended by 

 the Conductor, and various correspondents, to promote the vigour of plants. 

 What is the best, and how is it to be prepared, &c. ? An early reply will oblige 



Hastings. A Youth, but an ardent Florist. 



[Cow-dung makes a very excellent liquid manure, and is very safe in its 

 application ; it is best in a t'resh state. It may be most conveniently made by 

 putting in a trough tube or brick cistern, &c. If too strong, dilute it with soft 

 water. Experience will soon teach the due proportion to be given. Free-growing 

 greenhouse plants, such as Fuchsias, Salvias, Chrysanthemums, Azaleas, 

 Rhododendrons, &c, are much benefited by it. Apply it just when they begin 

 to grow, and during the growing season. — Conductor.] 



On destroying Worms infesting a Grass-plat. — Can you, or any of your 

 numerous correspondents, inform me how to destroy worms on a grass-plat. I 

 am so much infested with them, that I cannot keep them under. I am con- 

 tinually sweeping and rolling; and the more T clean the worse they appear to 

 he; and if you can inform me of any method to destroy them, or to keep them 

 from casting up the dirt, you will much oblige a young gardener and constant 

 subscriber, 



Huntingdonshire. E. A. 



[You may destroy worms by strong lime-water, prepared by throwing a quan- 

 tity of quicklime into a large vessel of water, stirring it well, and leaving it for a 

 day till it becomes clear. The quantity of lime is immaterial, provided there is 

 enough of it, because the water can only take up a certain quantity of lime. Or 

 a weak solution of corrosive sublimate will destroy them. — Conductor.] 



On Aristoi.ochia Gigas. — You will confer a great favour by informing me 

 from whom I can obtain the creeper named in your December Cabinet (Aris- 

 tolochia Gigas) ? I am very fond of and particularly fortunate iu the treatment 

 of creepers generally. It is said the flower is one foot across. I shall be' con- 



