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AZALEAS continued. 

 salicifolia. 

 sanatoria, 

 seabra. 

 seraphina. 

 specula, 

 spectabilis. 

 speciosa-aurea. 



— conspicua. 



— atro-sanguinea. 



— haemantha. 



— pulchella. 

 strophantha. 



AZALEAS continued. 

 sinensis, 

 triumphans. 

 translucida. 

 versicolor. 

 — i grandiflora. 

 viola odorata. 

 Victoria modesta. 

 viscocephala. 

 vittata. 



— conspicua. 

 viscosa alba. 



— conspicua. 



The Lancashire Tulip Growers. — The Northern Florists, anxious to as- 

 certain if they really have any flowers worth growing or not, will be glad to know 

 on what terms it will be agreeable to you to meet them in " The Lists " at 

 York. 



They would wish you to provide one judge and themselves another, and an 

 umpire to be chosen by these two. 



From the manner in which their Tulips are spoken of in the periodicals of the 

 day, they are apprehensive "there is something rotten in the state of Denmark," 

 and they would like to right (he matter if it can be done. 



Any communication through the present channel, or addressed post-paid to 

 Mr. Amor Minor, Post-office, Gateshead, will have immediate attention. 



Northern Florists' Arbour, February 14, 1844. Amor Minor. 



On Verbena Seed. — Last autumn 1 saved a quantity of Verbena seed col- 

 lected from a bed containing twenty of the best kinds. When and how am I to 

 sow and afterwards treat the plants ; also, will they bloom the ensuing summer ? 



Kingston. Emily. 



[Sow the seeds in pots in March on a fine and smooth surface of good loam, 

 and after pressing the seeds to the soil, just cover them with some finely sifted, 

 and place the pots in a cucumber frame at work. When the plants are large 

 enough, transplant them, several into a small pot. After they have struck root, 

 again remove them to where more air can be given, and so to inure them to the 

 climate, that by the middle of May they may be fit to plant in the open garden, 

 where they will bloom by the end of June or early in July, unless some casuality 

 prevent. — Conductor.] 



On Aristoi.ochia, Cypripkdiums, &c. — Being a subscriber to your Flori- 

 CULTural Cabinet from its commencement, 1 take the liberty of asking if you 

 cim inform me where 1 may procure seeds of the Aristolochia clematitis, Cypri- 

 pedium calceolus, Fjrola rotundifulia, and Cascata of varieties. As these are rare 

 plants, or by no means frequent, and as 1 feel greatly interested in Biiiish botany, 

 it would confer a favour if you could occasionally insert articles or extracts on 

 rare and curious British plants, and also figures of them, as you did in the first 

 volume ; and this, 1 think, the greater part of your readers would, as well as 

 myself, be glad to see commenced. As the study of botany is at the present 

 day the delight of all classes, anil being of so innocent and pleasing a character, 

 it c.mnot be loo greatly extended, and the large circulation of the Cabinet is 

 capable of doing this with advantage at the same time to itself. Perhaps you 

 may be able to inform me of a periodical work entirely devoted to botany, at 

 about the same price of the Cabinet, with coloured engravings. 



[Baxter's coloured copy of British Botany, published in monthly numbers, 

 would be found useful. Seeds of the kinds named cannot readily he obtained. 

 We think it very likely plants may be had of Luddiges's, of Hackney, or 

 Young's, of Epsom, ill whose catalogues they have been inserted.— Conductor.] 



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