108 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



tation. We shall be glad to receive any queries or other communications from 

 our Correspondent ; such shall have our early attention.— Conductor.] 



In the Floricultural Cabinet for this month, Article 4, page 29, is a recom- 

 mendation of a ( ' Brick'" Arnott's stove, for use in Greenhouses, with some s/ight 

 account of its make, but in my opinion not sufficiently explanatory to enable a 

 person to construct one properly. It would oblige me, and I have no doubt 

 many others of your subscribers, if you could obtain for insertion in your next 

 number, a detailed account of the mode of constructing the stove above men- 

 tioned, the probable expense, a plan or two, and its peculiar advantages over the 

 iron stove. Suffolk. 



[We did not know the real address of our correspondent who favoured us witli 

 the remarks inserted at page 29, so could not comply with the request above made 

 to appear in our present number ; but we very respectfully solicit further obser- 

 vations from our correspondent who sent us the former ones, so as to meet the 

 wishes above expressed, and as early as convenient. — Conductor.] 



On Soil suitable for Petunias. — You would confer a great favour if you 

 would inform me, through the medium of your valuable Cabinet, what is the 

 most suitable soil for Petunias. I have a large number of seedlings, from first- 

 rate varieties, consequently I am looking forward with anxiety to their blooming, 

 but they do not grow so luxuriantly as I could wish, for want of, as I imagine, 

 proper soiL C. W. P. 



[On a light loam, well enriched with rotten dung, they grow vigorously with us, 

 having an inch deep of broken pots for drainage. — Conductor.] 



On Floricultural Meetings. — An Old Subscriber would be glad of some 

 information relative to the conducting of Floricultural Meetings, for instance as 

 to the arranging of plants so as to give the least trouble to the judges in award- 

 ing the prizes ; how [each exhibitor's plants are to be marked so as to do away 

 with the appearance of unfairness, and whether a person, having anything for 

 exhibition, is allowed to be present to give assistance in any way during the 

 time the judge is determining the prizes, &c. 



[Certainly such person should not be present ; the other information shall be 

 given next month. — Conductor.] 



On Iris bicolor. — Has the Iris bicolor (buff with a dark eye), figured in 

 Loddiges' work, any other name, and what is the best way of cultivating it-H 



An Old Subscriber. 

 OnTweedia ciEEUi.EA. — Has any subscriber grown the Tweedia ca>rulea 

 successfully ? if so, will he be kind enough to instruct the ignorant? 



An Old Subscriber. 



On Wateii-Plants. — I should feel greatly obliged to you, or to some of your 

 correspondents, to inform me, in the May or June number of the Floricultural 

 Cabinet, what Lilies, or other water-plants (to the number of about half a dozen), 

 are the most suitable for a small pond of eighteen or twenty feet in diameter ; 

 also whether the circumstance of ducks being allowed to use the pond would be 

 likely to prevent their flourishing properly. May I further trouble you to tell 

 me whether plants of the American Cranberry can be purchased of any of 

 the English nurserymen, or whether they or the Scotch Cranberry (which I 

 think I have understood only succeeds by running water) would make a suitable 

 as well as useful plant for the margin of a stagnant pond ? Directions as to the 

 planting or after-treatment of the Cranberries and Lilies would confer an addi- 

 tional favour upon an 



Sherborne, Dorset, April 9, 1840. An Old Subscriber. 



[We hope some of our readers will favour our correspondent with an early 

 reply. — Conductor.] 



On Ivy, if injurious to the Scotch Fir. — A subscriber to the Floricultural 

 Cabinet will be obliged by Mr. Harrison and several good gardeners, stating it 

 as their opinion from observation (in an early number) whether the Ivy running 

 up the Scotch Fir is destructive to the tree, occasioning the outer and upper 

 branches to die. 



