112 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



the work, and it may surely be deemed Bufflcient for eacli, if proper uotice ha 

 takeu of their commuuicatioDs and inforDiation givcu on the particular sub- 

 jects required, iu fact were you to attempt to alter your plans at the suggestion 

 of every one, you would soon be placed in the predicament of the old man 

 with his ttss in the fable. For my own part, not having a garden, your entire 

 attention to Florist's flowers, as lie suggests, would render your work wholly 

 useless to me, and consequently I might with equal modcsti/ and propriety re- 

 quest you to treat oi nothing but exotic and green house plants, because it is 

 only such that I can cultivate in my little plant Cahiitct, which, by the way, 1 

 understood by Wic first title of your work to be your original intention, though 

 Snowdrop could not imagine what that title had to do with flowers. In re- 

 gard to the plates, I am not so fastidious as to find fault with them when I re- 

 collect the price. .So long as they give a correct idea of the plant, it is as much 

 as can be reasonably expected, but the Artist who colours them should be iu- 

 .structed to take notice of the description of the plant, as by neglecting this, 

 he has given the Schizanthus, in your second number, a purple hue, instead of 

 representing it flesh coloured, as described at page 14, No. 1. For those sub- 

 scribers who wish for more highly Jinished plates, could you not publish a cer- 

 tain number of copies at Is. or Is. 6d. ?* I hope that you will not fail to fur- 

 uish us with' an index at the end of every Volume, as the subjects are necessa- 

 rily much scattered, and I think none of your subscribers could object to the 

 additional expense of an extra number for that purpose. 



In your last, instructions were given for the culture of the Camellia, but I 

 should feel obliged by a little additional information on the subject, as I have 

 lost several fine ones, which, after they had done blowing, threw out young 

 shoots and seemed increasing in growth rapidly until about July, when the 

 leaves gradually blackened and dropped off, and the plants died down to the 

 very root; some persons told me it was in consequence of my having given 

 too much water, and others (Gardeners,) that I had not given enough. My 

 Ericas too, shared the same fate, and though I have had many of the most 

 beautiful and promising plants, I have never been able to keep them in a heal 

 thy state above two months after they had done flowering. A few hints on 

 this subject when you can spare room, will be highly acceptable to 



An Amateur. 



• Wo have made arrangements to that effect, in order to meet the wishes of our 

 friends. Tho Number for a copious Index will be attended to. — Cond. 



Every Florist is much indebted to you for establishing a work so much 

 wanted, and so ably conducted, as The FloricuUural Cabinet. Being myself 

 an amateur, and knowing the wants of myself and others, I beg to throw out 

 a few suggestions, in the hope that by attention to them, you will render your 

 little work still more valuable. 



In the first place, with regard to the Plates, it would be well to put under 

 each flower the scale on which it is drawn ; I mean one half or one-third of 

 the natural size, as the case may Ijc, as is done in Maund's Botanical Garden. 

 Take care the Plates are coloured correctly. This should be attended to, 

 although of course elaborate shading cannot be expected. — As the work comes 

 out but seldom, I should advise you to continue to give four flowers in the 

 Plate as you have this month, in preference to one larger one. And I think 

 you should be careful to give full directions for the culture of the flowers you 

 figurt*, in the same number in which they appear. 



The generality of Florists do not grow Stove Plants; therefore, I think your 

 illustrations of Plants should be all confined to Greenhouse Plants, and those 

 generally termed Florist's Flowers. 



By the bye, in some instances your accentuation of Botanical names, and 

 the mode you adopt of dividing the words at the place over which the 

 accent is placed, prevents instead of assists in facilitating the ready pronun- 

 ciation of them. I'his you should alter at once. 



As 1 hafe made several experiments on the culture of different flowers 

 which may be thought, perhaps, entertaining, I thiuk I shall send some for 

 your perusal. — Your's, &.c. B. M. 



[NYc shall be much obliged by the favours.— Coni>.] 



