182 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



On destroying Moss on Lawns. — Will the Conductor, or some reader of the 

 Cabinet, inform me what method to adopt in order to destroy moss from a lawn ? 

 An early reply will oblige Juvenis. 



[Lime in a powdered state, or soot, sown by the hand regularly over the sur- 

 face, will effectually destroy it. It should nut be sown in midsummer, but either 

 in spring or autumn. Soot is preferable to lime — Conductor.] 



On a suitable Son. for Pansies. — You will oblige me by stating in your 

 next " Cabinet" what sort of soil is best to grow Pansies in. Last August I 

 bought twelve varieties, expecting to have some blooms fit to show this spring, 

 but this year they are all much smaller than when I bought them. I grew 

 them in a light, but rich soil, and watered them well. 



Supposing it was some fault in the soil was the cause, I will thank you, or 

 some correspondent, to say what is the most suitable soil for them. 



Ju/y 3d, 18-10. John Moston. 



[In a very light and open soil, the roots are very liable to'injury from drought 

 or cold. In a medium kind of loam, well enriched with old rotten cow-dung, 

 they will grow vigorous, provided the situation where grown is not close to a 

 wall or hedge open to the midday sun. In such a situation they are generallyso 

 scorched as to die before long. An open, airy situation, where they have shade 

 for two or three hours at midday, is the best. The finest Pansies we ever saw 

 were grown in pots about eight inches diameter, and in a soil as above recom- 

 mended. The pots were kept in a cool frame, and the sashes were covered during 

 hot sun. 



The plants are so readily propagated that a quantity can easily be obtained to 

 try them in various situations. To have vigoious plants, there should be two 

 propagations, one in April or May, and another in July or August. These latter 

 make tine plants for blooming the following spring, and the former the autumn 

 after raising. — Conductor.] 



On Heating a Greenhouse, List of Frame Plants, &c. — Will you give me 

 your advice on the subject of warming a small greenhouse, 12 feet by 9 ? I wish 

 merely to keep out the frost, and get the things a little forward in the spring. 

 A flue going round it will take up so much room and be expensive in building, 

 as there must be a stove-house behind. All the hot water apparatus are liable 

 to the same objection. Would a small stove answer the purpose — one of 

 " Chanters" patent, for instance — or are they detrimental to plants ? Your own 

 sheet of Advertisements contains little else but the prices of Dahlias: now there 

 are many people not fond enough of them to purchase ten pounds worth, but who 

 like other flowers ; now if you would give the price of such things as Frame 

 plants, you might get customers, viz. varieties of the scarlet Geranium, and other 

 showy sorts, to put in beds in summer, &c, at per doz. ; ditto Petunias, Lubelias, 

 Verbena*, &C. I have beds of Ranunculuses, Anemones, &c. And I wish to 

 know what to put in when those > lants are out of bloom. 



A Subscriber. 



[Arnott's Stove, altered for the purpose, (see page 151 of July number,) it is 

 said, answers well, and can be obtained fir a few pounds. If our correspondent 

 will look at the other pages, there are plants named suitable for succeeding, Ra- 

 nunculuses, &c. The monthly Calendar often refers to such too. — Conductok.] 



On Heating a Geeenhouse, &c. — Will you, or any of your correspondents' 

 through the medium of your instructive book, give me their opinion respecting 

 the propriety of using the Patent Chunck Stove for heating greenhouses, &c. ? 

 Why I am induced to ask the question is, I have some idea of erecting a small 

 Propagating House, with a bark pit in it, and it has occurred to me that the 

 steam arising from the bark will counteract the dry atmosphere produced by the 

 stove I have mentioned, and which is injurious to plants. Should it be deemed 

 practicable, I feel certain that those who are their own gardener, as is my case, 

 would be very much benefited, as it would save that constant trouble and attend- 

 ance required in the old way of heating, and which many, situated as I am, are 

 not able to give. 



, Boston. A Subscriber from the first. 



