MISCELLANEOUS INT^ELLIGENCE. 115 



Nursery Gardeners, which from this circumstauce I always hoard aud cherish 

 as old gold. — Your coustaut reader, &c. 



Crick'iowel, May 16, 1S33. W. "w^ j_ 



Query.— I shall be obliged if you can inform me the best manner of treat- 

 ing Fuchsias in pots. I have this season purchased several; have kept 

 them out of doors all day, and taken them in at n'njht ; but notwithstanding 

 all my care, after 1 have had them a little while, all the buds (which when I 

 bought the Plants were very uumerous) have gradually dropped off without 

 coming to perfection. Ought they to have been left out of doors all night J 

 aud till what month. 



Catnberwell, May 20, 1S33. AirATEUit. 



Query. — I should feel obliged to any of your correspondents who would 

 inform nie through the medium of your delightful little work, how to treat 

 the different varieties of (lowering heaths, so as to preserve them througli the 

 winter, aud to make them bloom the following year, which I have never been 

 able to do ; mine having almost in\ariably died, or produced no blossom. 1 

 have no Greenhouse, but have always kept them in the dwelling-house during 

 the winter, and have been careful to give them plenty of air aud light. 



A. Peters. 



Lychnis Fixgens. — C. H. wishes to be informed the culture of the above, 

 particularly the preservation of the Plants, so as to cause them to blow the 

 second year, when he understands the flower is much finer than the first year. 



Query.— Being very fond of the large Garden Pansies, aud as I cannot 

 find in any work any directions relative either to their culture or propagation, 

 or to the raising new large flowered varieties, I should be glad if you would 

 in the next number of your useful Magazine, favour me with the best method 

 you are acquainted with. By so doing, you will oblige, your's, &c. 



DuJJidd, May 21, 1833. E. D. W. 



Query. — I shall be obliged if the Conductor of the Cabinet, or any of its 

 readers, would give a few instructions on the culture of Cypripediums. 



Delta. 



QuERy.— Your readers are very much indebted to Mr. Hawortu, for his 

 liberality in allowing his excellent paper on the Chrysanthemum to be printed 

 in your Magazine, and to yourself for your exertions in procuring his pei'- 

 mission. There are two or three points respecting this flower, (an especial 

 favourite of mine) on which I should be glad of some information. What is 

 the best mode of culture to procure seed ? What is the best method of flower- 

 ing the shy ones, such as the Indian White, the Indian Yellow, the Warratah, 

 &c. Can bloom be procured so early as August? I have some plants which 

 did not flower last Autumn, and which stood the winter without injury; they 

 are now large and fine, and I hope to see an early bloom on them. Has the 

 following plan been tried, and if so, with what success — i.e. taking off cuttings, 

 •lay in August, pinching out the flower buds, and getting them strong and' 

 well established before winter. Will such plants bloom early* 



June 3, 1833. Snowdrop. 



Query.— Is it possible to fruit the Ceratonia siliqua, " St. John's Bread," 

 m lOngland « If so, how is it to be done f What is the colour and shape of 

 the flower and fruit, aud is it at all palatable » An answer will greatly oblige 



iMerpool, May 30, 1833. U. Tiiounton. 



REFKRENCES TO PLATE. 



1. Ox&lit Uowiei, BowicK Oxalii, Dccandria, Pentagynia. Oxalideir. Tiiis 

 wont beautiful and florid plant is liaidy, and in the open ground will flower 

 111 tlie Aulumn; Inil it blossoms most i)rofusely wlien kej.t in a pot under 

 glOM, especially if, after a short )ieriud of rest at MidsumiiKr, it is phurd in a 

 •love or wiirm grcfiihouse IW u very short liuic to make it a.iit freely. Its 



