MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ill 



Royal Botanic Society.— The first meeting of the Fellows of the Royal 

 Botanic Society of London for this session was held on Tuesday evening at the 

 apartments of the society, 49, Pall Mall, the Marquis of Northampton, vice-pre- 

 sident, in the chair. After the preliminary business, a ballot for the election of 

 fellows took place, when 189 noblemen, ladies, and gentlemen, were added to the 

 list. At the next meeting the plans for laying out the gardens in the Regent's 

 Park, for which there is great competition, will be exhibited to the fellows and 

 their friends. The designs are to be sent in on Saturday, the fourth of next 

 month, and the exhibition of them will take place on Wednesday following. 



Mr. Anderson, of the Chelsea Botanic Garden, finds lime water a complete 

 antidote against the white bug in hot-houses, and he prepares it in the following 

 manner :^" We have a large garden pot or a pail, into which we put half a pint 

 of pulverized Dorking lime, with about half an ounce of black sulphur; after 

 being well mixed, we add four gallons of water, stir it well, then let it settle, and 

 when clear, we take Mr. Dougal's syringe, and throw it under the leaves. We 

 have been using this syringing for the last twelve months, and there is not a 

 bug, red spider, or thrip, in the house. — Gardener's Magazine. [Mr. Anderson 

 thinks it will also be useful for destroying the American bug on Apple Trees.] 



On Arnott's Stove. — I am surprised at your correspondent's asserting, in the 

 most unqualified manner, that Arnott's Stove will not heat a greenhouse properly ; 

 he must have made a sad bungle for it to have failed. Let him call on Mr. 

 Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, and he will there see a Geranium house heated by one 

 of Arnott's Stoves, which has now been in operation two seasons, and the plants 

 are in the most vigorous and healthy state. The chimney into which the pipe 

 is conducted should be above the pitch of the roof, so as to prevent the wind 

 blowing down it, and a pan of water should be constantly kept on the stove when 

 the fire is burning. For heating small greenhouses Arnott's Stove is invaluable. 



Fact. 



Seedling Cactuses. — Whenever the seed is ripe, sow it in sand, then place 

 the pot on a shelf in a warm and dry situation. It will vegetate readily. Little 

 water should be given to the plants when up. As they root well in sand, they 

 need not be potted till they are tolerably strong plants. The best soil to pot 

 them in is loam, peat, and brick rubbish, and be well drained. 



Plants of this tribe have been grown very vigorously in frames heated with 

 dung or tan. — Bot. Reg. 



Messrs. Tyso and Son's method of Wintering Dahlia Roots. — Take up 

 the roots, drain out the water occasionally to be found in the hollow stems 

 secure the labels with cupper wire, put the roots in layers under the stage of a 

 greenhouse or in the cellar, and cover with moist sand, and they will turn out 

 early in March as plump, and, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, as sound as 

 when housed in November. 



FLORICULTURAL calendar for may. 



Plant Stove. — Very little fire-heat will now be required, only applying it 

 in cold weather. The plants will progressively require an increase of air and 

 water. If any want an increase of pot-room, it should be atteuded to as early 

 ag possible ; otherwise, if not watered frequently, the foliage or flowers will 

 be liable to suffer, turn brown, or fall off the plant. Keep the plants free from 

 decayed leaves, moss, &c. Frequently stir the surface of the soil. When any 

 casual irregularities in form occur, prune or tie the shoots as required. It is a 

 good time for propagating by cuttings, suckers, seeds, &c.,'placing them in moist 

 heat. 



Tender or Stove Annuals. — When it is desired to have some plants to 

 bloom late in autumn, as Balsams, Cockscombs, Browallis, &c, seeds should now 

 be sown, and the plants potted off into small sized pots, as soon as they are large 

 enough, using a rich soil. 



