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Ixora sessilis. The foliage is of the middle size, waved. It forms a neat 

 bush. Not yet bloomed at Messrs. Loddiges's. 



Clerodendron augustikouum. A singularly pretty shrubby plant. Each 

 leaf is about an eighth of an inch broad and two inches long. It has not 

 bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges's. 



Buunsfelsia violacea. The plant has a noble appearance, the leaves aie 

 eight inches long and four broad. We were informed the flowers are said to be 

 very beautiful, but it has not yet bloomed at Messrs. Loddiges's. 



Epaoris coruscans. A very pretty flowering species, in bloom at Messrs. 

 Low's Nursery, Upper Clapton. The tube is near an inch long, of a beautiful 

 carmine-pink, with the end white. It deserves a place in every greenhouse. 



Statice platyphylla. At Mr. Low's. It is the finest of the tribe we have 

 yet seen. The flowers are produced in large panicles, and each blossom is three 

 times the size of any other bloomed in this country. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Stage Tulips. — It would oblige several old southern Tulip growers, if, in 

 your next number of the Cabinet, you would be so kind as to explain what Mr. 

 Slater, in his descriptive catalogue of Tulips, means by the term " a good or fine 

 stage flower.'' Perhaps Mr. S. may laugh at our ignorance ; had it been applied 

 to an Auricula, Carnation, &c, we should have understood it, but never having 

 seen Tulips grown in pots, or in any way by which they could be removed to a 

 stage during the blooming season, we are quite at a loss to know what he means. 



October 3, 1843. Kent. 



[There are many Tulips grown whose flowers are ornamental, but which do 

 not possess acceptable properties for exhibiting at a show iu competition with 

 others, and we doubt not but Mr. Slater means the flowers deemed lit to compete 

 with those usually placed on a stage. It has no reference to mode of growing, 

 as the flowers exhibited are always cut specimens. — Conductor.] 



On the impregnation ov Pelargoniums.— Having tried the experiment of 

 impregnating Pelargoniums according to the method laid down in the Flori- 

 cui.turai. Cabinet for the mouth of August last, I am glad to say I have been 

 (in a limited measure) successful in obtaining seeds from a few plants out of the 

 many which were acted upon, although the flowers of the respective plants were 

 all in the same state of expansion, that is to say, full bloom; the antheis of all 

 were alike full of ripe farina, and the stigma of every one of them presented a 

 cloven or horn-like appearance, which I conceived to be in a proper state, between 

 which the impregnating dust was freely deposited, and the anthers used for 

 impregnating every single flower were six in number. Now an old subscriber 

 and a constant reader of the Cabinet wishes to be informed how this differenco 

 is to be accounted for, that some Pelargoniums can be impregnated and others 

 not. I shall feel obliged by being informed how those can be distinguished 

 which cannot be fructified, so that a useless application of the farina obtained 

 from choice flowers may not be applied in vain 



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