MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 113 



A Reply to the Remarks op " Snowdrop."— The last number of your 

 Floricullural Cabinet is uow before me, together with a small volume of Lord 

 Bvron's works, which is opeu to the part which contains these lines — 

 " A man must serve a time to every trade 

 Save censure — critics all are ready made." 



After reading Snowdrop's letter, I cannot help thinking that they are very 

 applicable to him and all such fault finding personages. He begins his re- 

 njarks by finding fault with the name of your work. " 1 do not like the first 

 titleof your work, Floricullural Cabinet." " What has a Cabinet to do with 

 a FlowJr Garden !" And then recommends you to apply the " prutiing kuife" 

 to the letters of your correspondents. I know not who Snowdrop is, but this 

 I do know, that he has no business to recommend any one to throw the works 

 of others into the fire, (communications tvrilten only/or the purpose of making 

 public the best modes individuals have adopted with success in the cultivation of 

 Plants, Flowers, .^c.) to make room for Snowdrop's remarks upon the colour- 

 ing of a flower, or the merits of " Sweet's Florists Guide." As to the daubing 

 part of the work, I must say, that though the Plants, Flowers, &c. are not so 

 highly clooured asthosein" Madnd's Botanic Garden," " Sweet's Florist's 

 Guide," &.C., they convey a very good and correct idea of the flowers they are 

 inteuded to represent. Perhaps Snowdrop has never thought that publica- 

 tions of a more expensive kind are quite out of the reach of a class of persons 

 which the Floricullural Cabinet is very calculated to instruct j I allude to 

 Gardeners' Apprentices, &c. Now if the Plants, Flowers, &c. in Mr. Harri- 

 son's book were more highly coloured, the work must of course be raised ia 

 price, and it would completely put it out of the power of many persons to 

 obtain the book by raising the price, who are now able to subscribe. Upou 

 the whole, I think that Snowdrop's remarks are not only uncalled for but 

 vnnccessanj, and I must in duty to Mr. Harrison say, that all who have seen, 

 and are subscribers to the Floricullural Cabinet in our neighbourhood, are 

 perfectly satisfied with it, and hope it will continue to be conducted in the 

 same spirited manner that it is at present. J- C. H. 



Reply to Daffodil, Page 67. — I have felt no small degree of surprise at 

 the observations of your correspondent Daffodil, on the propagation of 

 Dahlias by cuttings. Daffodil says, (in page 67) that " from the joint 

 inserted in the soil, the roots are produced." This is a great mistake, and I 

 venture to say that Daffodil never saw a cutting strike roots from the eyes 

 or joint; but invariably from the bottom edge of the cutting, no matter whe- 

 ther there is a joint or not in the cutting for 4 or 5 inches, if there is only a 

 joint above ground, it will strike and bloom as well as any other cutting will ; 

 hut I admit it would be only a chance as to its producing any shoots the 

 Spring following. Now if the eyes of the cuttings are cut out, it does not 

 invariably follow that the root will not push again. I have tried the experi- 

 ment, and know that not unfrequently the roots will push eyes from the bot- 

 tom, and not push one at all from the crown where we generally expect them, 

 A many cuttings of Dahlias are very much injured in the striking by keeping 

 them too moist, and it often happens that the eyes (which it is very desirable 

 to retain sound) are rotted. 1 have often examined shootless old roots, and I 

 always find that the eyes are either cankered or rotted, which I mainly attri- 

 bute to wire worms and insects eating them out; then wet gets in and destroys 

 the i-yes, and yet the root may still retain a degree of soundness. But if 

 DAKF'tbiL will only carefully examine shootless roots, I feel confident that it 

 ik the eyes that have sufrered, and are in a decayed state, which is the cause. 



His Loudship. 



Reply to PnisciLLA, Pace 20. — Priscilla asks for the best mode of culti- 

 vating the Gloriosa Superba. In reply to this application I beg to state, that 

 I have bloomed the plant very freely under the following mode of treatment: 

 The bull>s are kept in potM on a shelf in the back part of the stove, but not 

 ii|H>ii a heated Hue. Very little uat'T is given them, only .as much us to pro- 

 %'ciit tliv bulbi from nhrivclling. At the end of February or begiuning of 



