170 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



Rose Trees inpp.cted with Green Fly. — My standard, as well as some of 

 my dwarf Roses, are again pestered to an amazing extent with the Green-fly. 

 What ishest and easiest mode of destroying them without doing so to the rose- 

 buds and foliage. An immediate answer will oblige Amicus. 



[A strong infusion of camomile has proved effectual, having some in a vessel 

 into which the shoots are bent and held for a moment. So with tobacco-water. 

 Snuff, in a finely-powdered state dusted over has, too, proved successful, or 

 smothered with smoke. We have seen a puddle of earth and water to the con- 

 sistence of cream taken in a pail, and the ends of the shoots affected dipped in ; 

 this formed a coating over them and smothered them ; it soon became dry and 

 enveloped them. In a day or two it was washed off by means of a garden 

 engine or syringe, soon dispelling it, and the plants were healthy all the season 

 after. — Conductor . ] 



On Auricula. Seed. — I have this season, for the first grown, a collection of 

 Auriculas and Polyanthus's, both have a quantity of seed vessels, when it ripens, 

 how am I to proceed. A reply will confer a favour on 



A Country Curate. 



[When the seed is ripe, which will be by the end of July or August, save it, 

 not in a hot situation, but dry, till the February following, then sow it in shallow 

 pans, raise in 'moist heat, as soon as up, remove to a somewhat cooler situation, 

 and when the plants are strong enough, take them up entire and pot into 

 smaller pots and treat as the Auricula usually is. See excellent articles in 

 former Numbers of the Cabinet. — Conductor.] 



On Lisianthus Russellianus.— What affinity has the Lisianthus Russel- 

 lianus P By informing me you would greatly oblige 



Cambridge. T. N. C. 



[It is of the natural order Gentianeae, nearly the form of the dwarf spring 

 flowering Gentian, but about three limes the width of that flower. A figure is 

 given of a smallish sized bloom in a former Number of this work. 



Conductor.] 



On Double Violets, &c. — A Subscriber begs to know if there are such plants 

 as a bright scarlet double Violet, also a double white Hepatica, and where they 

 are to be procured; also where the double white Violet and double Lily of the. 

 Valley are to te purchased. 



Rurchellta Capensis. — Observing a remark in the May Number on grafting 

 the Luculia gratissima on Rurchellia Capensis, I am desirous to know where, 

 and at what price, I can procure plants of it. 



[At most of the principal nurseries, and the price about Is. fnl. each. If ob- 

 tained it readily increases by cuttings of the roots, pushing from the joints. 



Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 



Remarks on the Culture ok Orchiueous Plants, by James Bateman, 

 Esq., as given in his very valuable Work published under the title of " The 

 Orchiduceso of Mexico and Guatemala. — The work far e\ceeds all others in its 

 entire completion, and with each figured specimen are valuable remarks on the 

 culture, but the condensation of the general mode of treatment Mr. Bateman 



