MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



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As a subscriber to your Floricultural Cabinet, I beg to suggest what I 

 think would be an improvement in your future indices to that work, and that is 

 to place the plate and the description opposite each other. As they stand at 

 present, the plate is at the beginning of the month and the description at the 

 end. which, when bound up, makes the reference inconvenient I discovered 

 this in the first volume, and on giving it out to bind I ordered the plates to be 

 put at the end of each month, opposite the description, and I altered the numbers 

 of the plates in the index with the pen. This plan I have adopted in binding 

 all the subsequent umbers. By the method I have suggested there would be no 

 plate at the beginning of the volume, which I think there ought to be. I should 

 propose therefore that at the end of the year you should give an extra plate ot 

 some <*ood flower, and extra pains taken in the engraving, to make the volume 

 open well ; and charge it as a double number. Your well-wisher, 



Manchester, October 28, 1840. Ji - u ' 



TWe thank our correspondent for the suggestion. We shall however in future, 

 place the plate as usual, and the first original article in each number to contain 

 the treatment, &c, of the plants figured. We hope this will meet the wishes of 

 our correspondent. — Conductor.] 



On Prepared Canvass.— I think that the best answer which I can give to the 

 • inquiry of P \ R- T. will be to forward to him the accompanying specimens ot 

 prepared canvass. I do not conceive that the quality of the canvass is of much 

 consequence ; but it may be as well to observe, that the fabric must be fully 

 saturated with the resin and lard, and that the iron used for the purpose must be 

 sufficiently heated. And, moreover, that the proportion of lard must be as small 

 as possible, that is, only sufficient to overcome the brittleness of the resm, which 

 latter is the substance that imparts semi-transparency to the canvass. 



In a recent experiment which I have made, I find that Imseedclis better than 

 lard for our purpose ; but I must again repeat, that as the object of lard or oil 18 

 merely to give the requisite degree of flexibility to the resin, it is best to use of 

 either of the former substances only so much as will ensure this condition, as a 

 large quantity would impair the transparency of the prepared canvas*. ^ ^ 



IThe specimens sent to us appear admirably adapted for the purpose, and if 

 our correspondent, P. A. R. T., will write us where to send them to, we will do 

 so on receipt of the instruction.— Conductor.] 



Ta*ior's Pink and Purple Baiaar Carnation.— This valuable Seedling 

 Carnation has been purchased of Mr. Taylor, by Mr. John Sealy, of Mugland 

 House, St. George's, near Bristol — Conductor. 



FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER. 



Plant Stove.— Roses, Honeysuckles, Jasmines, Persian Lilacs, Azaleas. 

 Rhododendrons. Carnations, Pinks, Primroses, Mignonette, Stocks, Aconites, 

 fee., required to bloom from January, should be brought in early in the present 

 month. The plants should be placed at first in the coolest part of the bouse: 

 never allow them to want water. Pots or boxes containing bulbous-rooted 

 flowering plants, as Hyacinths, Narcissuses, Persian Irises, (recuses, Sc, 

 should occasionally be introduced, so as to have a succession ol bloom. A I 

 stove-plants will require occasionally syringing over the top, in order tow 

 Off any accumulated dust from the foliage. Cactus plants feat have been kept 

 out of doors, or in the greenhouse, should occasionally be brought into the stove 

 for (lowering, which gives a succession. If any of the forced plants be attacked 

 with the green fly. a syringe with diluted tobacco-water mil destroy them. I 

 the leavcTappcar hit. 'and turn brown (the effect of da.nage by re dspi. ler . a 

 syringe of soap-suds at the under side of the leaves il effectual to destroy them. 



