132 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Arnott's Stove. — I am, and have been from the commencement, a sub- 

 scriber to your Floricultural Cabinet. Being in want of a stove to heat two houses, 

 I was very much pleased with the description of one mentioned in your Cabinet 

 of a previous month, from a correspondent who signs himself a florist. You will 

 greatly oblige me by the favour of his address, that I may obtain further parti- 

 culars : those I now have are the common brick flues: these with me do not 

 answer, for, when most wanted, I find a great difficulty in getting the fire to 

 burn, and likewise in keeping out smoke. Would you be kind enough to favour 

 me with your opinion of the Arnott and Churk stoves for the above purpose ? 

 I have seen advertised an apparatus by "Joyce on the hot-water system : the only 

 objection to this is its price, do you know anything about it ? An answer will be 

 thankfully received, as soon as convenient, by 



Earl Solium, Wondbritlge, A Wellwisher to your Cabinet. 



Suffolk. 



[We hope our correspondent who sent the remarks alluded to will favour us 

 with his address. — Conductor.] 



On Culture ok Brompton Stocks. — Would you, or any of your numerous 

 readers, be kind enough to give me, through the medium of your valuable Cabinet, 

 a few hints on the culture of the Brompton Stock, of which flower I am a great 

 admirer ? An early reply would oblige 



May 8th, 184U. A young Amateur. 



On Burning Turf for Pansies. — A correspondent will be obliged if some 

 reader of the Cabinet would inform him if turf should be burnt before it is used 

 in a compost for Heartsease, or whether it will be sufficiently decomposed by 

 standing to rot for six or none months before using. 



Wellingborough, April 8th. H. W. 



On Altering the Colours of Dahlias — I do not recollect reading any 

 account whatever of a method to alter the odours of Dahlias. When the stem has 

 acquired a toughness that it will bear a twist round, so serve it, and tie it twisted 

 secure to a slick well drove into the ground. I have learned something from this 

 method, let others do so likewise. 



J. H. F. 



On Ixias, Sparaxises, &c. — Some of your readers will be much gratified by an 

 early reply to the following queries : — 



1. How can the bulbsof Ixia and Sparaxis be managed in a greenhouse where 

 artificial heat is not given them, except by means of a hotbed, and that only for 

 a very limited time P 



We find them increase rapidly by offsets, but they ?iei>er open their flowers 

 well, and the leaves generally begin to turn yellow before the flower appears. 



2. What treatment should be pursued with regard to bulbs newly impoited 

 from Brazil ? 



3. How should the seeds of Sollya heterophylla be managed ? 

 We find it will not increase by cuttings ; and the seeds, though they seem well 



ripened, never germinate. 



CoMMELINA. 



On Dahlias. — You will much oblige several of your subscribers here by in- 

 serting in the next number of the " Cabinet," the following queries, with your 

 answer thereto. 



1. Is Widnall's Conductor the best Dahlia of its class ? — [No, we have seen 

 Horwood's Defiance much superior, and when well grown it is decidedly the best. 

 — Conductor.] 



2. Do you consider Glory of Plymouth superior to Dod's Mary, or any other 

 flower in the light-edged class ? — [Yes, the petals are rounder, and the bloom 

 altogether more proportionately correct. It cannot, however, always be depended 

 upon. — Conductor. J 



3. I have never seen any account published of the past season of the Cam- 

 bridge Dahlia show, which I much regret your omission of, as a detail of the 



