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tent with half that size An answer in an early number of your Cabinet will 

 oblige 

 December 13th, 184:2. Coh.ea Scan-dens. 



[The plant we saw in bloom in the conservatory in the London Horticultural 

 Society's Garden the last summer, and the flower was larger than the size stated 

 in the " Botanical Register." When there is a surplus, fellows can obtain plants. 

 We hare not seen it in any other collection. Any person having it for sale, we 

 should be glad to be informed ; and if we receive such information, we will give 

 notice of it. — Conductor.] 



On a Simple Method of Growing the Ranunculus. — Will you or any of 

 your correspondents favour me with a little useful and practical information on 

 the culture and best mode of treatment of the Ranunculus ? lam anxious to 

 grow a few, though my paucity of spare time will not allow of much trouble or 

 extravagance in their cultivation; and I would therefore like to know the 

 simplest and best mode of bestowing what little time I have towards them with 

 success. My soil is rich and light, with a gravel subsoil, and has a northern 

 aspect. A speedy compliance with this request would greatly oblige, 



Sheffield, Nov. 23, 1842. J. 



REMARKS. 



Caution on a Mixture to destroy Insects, &c. — Permit me, through the 

 medium of your most excellent and highly-interesting Magazine, the Floricui.- 

 tijrai, Cabinet, to endeavour to save your many correspondents from experiencing 

 a disappointment I lately met with, and which was occasioned by my reliance 

 on a statement given at page 9 of a little work lately published, styled " The 

 Vegetable Garden,' 1 by George Dull'. The statement is headed, " To destroy 

 Insects, Slugs, &c," for which a remedy is there given, which I most minutely 

 followed, except that I made the mixture weaker than directed. I then sponged 

 some plants in my stove, all of which it nearly killed, destroying every leaf it 

 touched. I next watered some Ranunculuses and the box-edging of the bed, 

 and with the same result, the box even appearing, in about six hours afterwards, 

 as though it had been burned. I but desire to make this known to prevent 

 others from using it, perhaps on a much larger scale. 



Swung Vili.e. 



On Calampelis scaura. — I have found the Calampelis scabra flourish exceed- 

 ingly well under the following treatment : — Sow the seeds early in spring, scat- 

 tering them thinly on the top of the pot ; they must not be covered with the 

 least earth. They come up hest in a hot-bed, but will do very well in a warm 

 window. Pot as soon as the plants are strong enough, and harden gradually in 

 a cold frame. About the middle of May transplant them where to remain ; soil 

 and situation not very particular. They will flower beautifully the first summer ; 

 but far more so the second, if the apparently withered stem is left untouched, as 

 it will put forth leaves and flowers from every joint, and be a mass of bloom and 

 foliage. The withered leaves left on seem to afford winter protection. After 

 the second year they will die down, and rise no more. A succession therefore, 

 is necessary. Tyro. 



On the Period and Mode op Pruning Roses. — I observe in a former number 

 of the Cabinet, that a request is made for some directions on a successful mode 

 of pruning the border roses and when. The following treatment I have pursued 

 with most satisfactory results. Clericus. 



The kinds that bloom from May to July I prune as follows in February. 



I retain as many of the most vigorous young shoots as I judge the tree is likely 

 to support, cutting away all others, &c, as follows : — I shorten those retained 

 for two purposes. Those to bloom at the time above stated I cut away from each 



