88 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Thiverania Coccinea. — Roots of this plant should now be potted. (See 

 Vol. I. p. 177 and 223 ; articles on the culture, &c, are there given.) 



Pelahgoniums. — Cuttings now struck will produce plants to bloom at the end 

 of summer. (See Vol. I. p. 88.) 



Pansies. — Plants will now be pushing shoots that will be emitting roots. 

 Where it is wished to increase the kinds, it is a very suitable time for doing it, by 

 taking off shoots and planting them in a good rich soil, shading them for a few 

 days at first. 



Polyanthuses. — (See Vol. I. p. 23 and .132.) 



Tigiudta Pavoxia. — The bulbs should now be planted in the open bed ; 

 choose a warm and sheltered situation. 



Ericas (Heaths). — Cuttings of many of the greenhouse kinds should now I e 

 put off. (See Vol. I. p. 48.) 



Mignionette — To bloom from June should now be sown. 



Rose TnEES. — Whin it is desired to have Roses late in the season, ltt them 

 be piuned this month. (See Article in Vol. I. p. 23 and 206.) 



Self sown Annuals— which have stood the winter should be thinned, and 

 where desirable some may be successfully transplanted. 



REFERENCE TO PLATES. 



Cox's Yellow Defiance, Pamplin's Bloomsbury, and Harrison's Charles XII., 

 Dahlias. — Each being first-rate flowers coming out this season. 



REVIEW. 



Remarks on Thorough Draining and Veep Ploughing, by James Smith, Esq., of 

 Deanston Works, near Stirling:. (See advertising sheet of present number.) 

 Extracted from the Third Report of Drummond's Agricultural Museum. 

 Fifth edition, with notes. &c. &c. 



The title of the work will at once convey to our readers that it is more an 

 agricultural than floricultural publication ; but the subject of draining wet 

 ground is as well for the florist to know as the farmer, and those of our readers 

 who peruse the work will find some very useful remarks, calculated to repay 

 them for the sixpence cost and reading thereof. There are several copper-plate 

 engravings and tables illustrative of the subject. The following testimonials of 

 its utility in its application in agriculture we subjoin: — 



" Smith's Subsoil Plough is a necessary accompaniment to draining ; and, 

 when that is done effectively, it seems calculated to render the most sterile and 

 unproductive soil fertile and profitable." — Lefevre's Remarks on the Present State 

 of Agriculture. 



"The Thorough or Deanston mode of Draining, of so great benefit, not for 

 Scotland only, but for the whole kingdom, is as yet in its infancy. Already the 

 fame and the utility of it is spreading all over the island ; and we have not a 

 doubt, in a short time there will not be found a spot where improvements are 

 carried on that has not been ' made anew ' by means of this simple yet pow- 

 erful and efficient system of Draining." — Quarterly Journal of Agriculture 

 June, 183 



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