284 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



A List of Stove Plants. — You would much oblige a subscriber to your 

 valuable Cabinet by giving a list of about twenty or thirty of the best stove 

 plants, such as you can recommend a% a choice collection for a small stove. If 

 it is not too much trespassing on.your time, I shall esteem it as a great favour. 



Knightsbridge, Nov. 12, 1840. A Subscriber. 



[A list will be given in the January number. — Conductor.] 



On Pillar Roses, Frame for, &c. — Will you, or some correspondent, be so 

 obliging in the next number of your very useful Cabinet as to give some 

 directions for arranging a pillar of Roses ; viz., what kind of frame it should be, 

 and the names of ten or a dozen Roses suited for that purpose, to be grown in a 

 cold soil and low situation. How many roses to be attached to each pillar, and 

 a sketch of the kind of frame. 



November 9th. A Hampshire Gardener. 



[The soil being a cold one, as it is usually termed, and situation low, it is 

 better not to plant before the end of February. We therefore insert the query, 

 so that among our numerous readers, we hope some will be able to give the in- 

 formation desired from practical results. We will however, if not done by others, 

 reply to it in the January number. — Conductor.] 



On destroying Worms infesting a Grasspi.ot. — Having recently formed a 

 grassplot from a piece of ground which had been for some time previously un- 

 cultivated, I am greatly annoyed to find the whole of the turf laid down perfo- 

 rated all over by the worms, which, as you well know, leave a deposit of mud, 

 which completely disfigures the grass. Now, as I am a tyro in these matters, 

 he pleased to point out (in your next number of the Floricultural Cabinet) 

 a remedy for this increasing evil. I can destroy the worm iu various ways, but 

 I am fearful of destroying the grass at the same time. If you can assist me in 

 this matter, you will greatly oblige yours very obediently, 

 Park Road, Stockwell. J. Farthing. 



[Take several unslaked lime stones; put them into a' tub of water; when 

 dissolved, stir them up, so as to diffuse the lime entirely in the water. After 

 the same is settled and quite clear, pour it over the grassplot, so as to sink as 

 deep as the worms retire, and it will destroy them. We have found it quite 

 effectual in applications of it in Yorkshire. It is very useful, too, to sprinkle 

 lime dust over the grassplot. It dustroys moss, worms at the surface, and im- 

 proves the green of the grass. — Conductor.] 



On a List of Geraniums for showing at Exhibitions. — Having of late 

 seen much said in your Floricultural Cabinet on that beautiful tribe of 

 plants, the Geraniums, I am induced to ask you to give a descriptive list in one 

 of your early numbers of a few of the best show-flowers, believing it will be 

 useful to some of our numerous young florists and amateur geranium growers. 



W. Lynn. 



[In our numbers for August, September, and December, we have given 

 descriptions of some of the best we saw in the exhibitions and collections around 

 London, and shall insert more in our next. As colours and descriptions, &c, 

 are given, from them a selection, to be varied, can best be made. — Conductor.] 



On Calceolarias, &c. — Judging from the plates of seedlings in your Maga- 

 zine, and from accounts given me by a friend who visited the exhibition this 

 summer at Chiswick, I am led to conclude that we know but little of the Cal- 

 ceolaria in its full perfection at this side the Channel. If not interfering with 

 your arrangements, a plate containing blossoms of a dozen or so of the best 

 named varieties, distinguishing shrubby from herbaceous, would be very instru- 

 mental in bringing these truly beautiful flowers into more general cultivation 

 here, and would be very gratifying to many of your Irish readers. 



