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Wii.sonia muara, a new plant which we saw in the Tooting Nursery ; it ap- 

 pears to be a greenhouse-plant. It was not in bloom, hut we unilerstood it is a 

 pretty flowering plant, having yellow flowers, with a dark velvet centre. 



Platylobium Murrayanum, a new and beautiful flowering greenhouse plant, 

 having large pea-formed flowers, the wings orange, with purple edges, and a 

 keel. This we saw in the Tooting Nursery. 



Primula Sinensis var. plena. A double white-flowered Chinese Primrose 

 has been raised; we saw plants of it profusely in bloom at the Pine Apple 

 Nursery, and another double -flowered variety with pale-pink flowers. The pre- 

 sent price is one guinea per plant. They are valuable acquisitions to so charm- 

 ing a plant. 



Convolvulus bryoni;eflorus. We saw a pretty plant of it at the Pine 

 Apple Nursery ; it is grown in an open frame, so as to have slight protection 

 in severe winters if required. It is a twining plant, producing light purple 

 flowers, which are very ornamental. The foliage is pretty, having a mallow-like 

 appearance. In a cool greenhouse, or trained against an open south aspected 

 wall, the plant would be ornamental. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On a suitable Soil for the Anemone. — I should be much obliged if vou 

 could inform me, through the medium of your " Floricultural Cabinet/' what 

 the Double Anemones thrive best in, whether a light sandy soil, loamy, or what 

 composition is proper for them ? If you could answer me in your next " Cabinet " 

 I should be most happy, as it is getting very late for them. 



A constant Subscriber to your Cabinet in Kent. 



January 22, 1840. 



On Pentstemon Coboja, and P. Murrayanum. — Being a great admirer of 

 that splendid plant, Pentstemon Cobcea, as well as P. Murrayanum, and having 

 failed frequently in keeping them alive, as they appear to die off suddenly, at 

 all times of the year, without any apparent cause, I should feel greatly obliged 

 to any of your intelligent contributors if they would explain some successful 

 mode of treatment with those beautiful flowering plants, which would no doubt 

 be highly usefol to many plant-growers as well as myself, 



Cornwall, Feb. 1, 1S40. Jack Frost. 



On Bulbous Rooted Irises. — If one of your correspondents who is acquainted 

 with the English and Spanish Iris would give a list of each, with the descrip- 

 tion of the flower, and also a few remarks as to the time and depth they ought 

 to be planted, I doubt not but that it will be very acceptable to many of your 

 readers, as well as greatly oblige an 



Ireland, tub. 10, 1840. Irish Subscriber. 



[Messrs. Lockhait having a most superb collection of them for sale, and which 

 they bloomed admirably for the last rive years, the Conductor applied to those 

 gentlemen for a reply, which is subjoined as under.] — Conductor. 



The treatment of the English and Spanish Iris is the most simple imaginable, 

 and they are perfectly hardy. The English Iris merely requires good garden 

 ground, and to be planted in the beginning of October, not later. The distance 

 from bulb to bulb ought to be six inches, and the depth four inches, reckoning 

 from the point of the bulb. 



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