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PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On blooming the Scarlet Geranium, &c — Will any of your subscribers 

 favour me with the best method of blowing the fine Scarlet Geraniums ? Every 

 means hitherto used have tailed to pruduee abundant bloom. In " Smith's New 

 Scarlet," for instance, I have seen it growing most luxuriantly against the wall 

 in the opeu ground, and likewise in pots in the conservatory, but producing only 

 one large truss. I have likewise seen it growing in a small pot, inserted in a 

 large one, with no better success. It may be, that from the immense size of the 

 truss, and the time it consequently takes to form and perfect the flower, Nature 

 is stinted in her operations. 



One more question I am desirous of asking. How do the metropolitan culti- 

 vators produce such fine and fragrant pots of Miguonette ? Are there turn suits, 

 or does it depend alone oa the manner of growing it ? [On the latter. — Con- 

 ductor.] No private gardeners can show such Migniouette as adonis the Lon- 

 don houses in the spring, and certainly it is nowhere so powerfully fragrant, or 

 so healthy in appearance. 



Vicarage, near Arundel. An Old Subscriber. 



A subscriber will be much obliged by the following being inserted in the 

 Floricultural Cabinet for November: — 



On a List of Michaelmas Daisies. — As the much-admired autumnal flower, 

 the Michaelmas Daisy, is now in blossom, and having only a few of the more 

 common varieties, and wishing to increase my selection, perhaps you will oblige 

 me by stating where an assortment of the new varieties may be ootained. Ai-y 

 party having such for sale might, in a penny letter, send labelled blossoms in 

 a lozenge, or other light box, addressed C. M., 4, Butter Market, Reading, which 

 will greatly oblige a subscriber to your valued Cabinet. 



On a List ov Cinerarias, &c— I should feel particularly obliged if you, or 

 some oueof your numerous subscribers, would furnish me,in your next Cabinet, 

 with a select list of the best Cinerarias ; the height they grow under good 

 treatment ; and where 1 can procure them ; with the price. 



Also the best way to treat Seedling Geraniums to make them flower: will 

 they flower the first year ? A compliance with this request will oblige 



Bexley, Kent, Nov. 9, 18-10. A Subscriber. 



[A list will be given in our next number.— Conductor.] 



On destroying- an Insect, &c— During the whole of last summer I was 

 troubled with a small insect, very much resembling the Cochineal, in my hot- 

 beds, which, not content with eating the bloom of the cucumbers, melons, ftc, 

 they actually devoured the fruit. 1 have tried Fumigating with tobacco, lrme, 

 soot, sulphur, a strong lees with soft soap, and everything 1 could possibly think 

 of, but without effect; they generally secreted themselves in the mould oi the 

 bed, or crevices of the brick-work, when not committing their devastations. 1 

 have again commenced forcing, and have cucumbers just setting their fruit, but 

 am sorry to say they have again made their appearance, with the like re»ults. 

 If you, or any of your numerous readers, will inform me, through your Caiunivi . 

 how they are to be exterminated, you will confer an obligation un 



14th Nov., 1640. A constant Subscriber, near Chaiuj. 



