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pots. 1 have for some time endeavoured to have a bed of thom blooming at 

 the same time, but 1 have generally been unsuccessful. By iuscrting this in 

 your valuable pages, you will greatly oblige M. S. Y. 



Hampstead, Juli/'26tk, 1833. 



Forcing Roses. — You will particularly oblige one of your readers if you 

 will communicate any information upont he best method of forcing early Roses, 

 so au> to have them in bloom immediately after Christmas, or any time in the 

 mouth of January, or even early in February. What is desired is to have 

 the forced Roses plentiful and fine of the kind — not poor, weak flowers. 



July iSth. Rosa. 



On the Wistaria Conseqiana. — Being a subscriber to your excellent work, 

 named the Floricullural Cabinet, I make bold to address these few lines to 

 you, hoping you will not esteem me taking a liberty with you in requiring the 

 mode of cultivation of a plant I cannot obtain flowers from. 'I'he Glycine si- 

 uensis, or Wistaria Cousequana, is the plant I mean, having had it a long 

 time and not being able to flower it. Should you be so kind as to insert a 

 treatise on its cultivation, I should feel extremely obliged. X. Y. Z. 



July 2'th, 1S33. 



On the CcLTiRE OF Carnations. — I should feel extremely obliged if 

 you, or any of your numerous correspondents, would favour me, by means 

 of your valuable pages, with a little information ou the culture of Carnations, 

 particularly if by any treatment I could prevent the colours from running. 

 This year I have been at considerable expense and trouble with them, but I 

 have had the misfortune to lose them all, at least with respect to the natural 

 colours. I should also be glad to have some information respecting the soil, 

 &c. I have been advised to plant them out whoa struck in a rich soil, pre- 

 vious to putting them in the bed where they are to remain. Do you think 

 thie a good plan' By obtaining this information for me, you will very much 

 oblige yours, &,c. Tulip. 



Jul]) \Uh, 1833. 



Will Mr. MeN'Zies be so kind as to inform me how long the shoots of the 

 .Azalea indica should be when put into the greenhouse to harden before going 

 out of doors.' .\nd I should be additionally and most highly obliged by a 

 description and treatnieut of the Ghent Azaleas. If Mr. Mknzies will giv^ 

 au early attentiou to the above requests, it will be very gratefully esteemed by 



A Constant Reader. 



What are the best plants to grow in a sharp gravel of a serpentine or gra- 

 uite uature, under trees, which lies ou a declivity, and is very dry? 



R. R. 



ANSWERS. 



Although "An Amateur" from Camberwell has been very ably answered 

 Ijy Mr. Montague respecting the management of that beautiful plant the 

 Fuchsia, I think it is in my power to afl'ord him a little additional information, 

 having been very successful in raising it from cuttings, and having iny plants 

 generally admired for the elegance of their form and the ])rofusion of blossoms 

 they display. The method 1 invariably adopt is, as soon as they havediojiped 

 all their leaves to cut back each branch about four [inches, and remove 

 the plants into a spare room, gradually diminishing tlie supply of water 

 until about October; after which, I sutler them to remain all the winter with- 

 out any, or, at moat, a little at the to|) of the pot about once a fc'rtni,.;lit. In 

 the following .Spring, as soon as I perceive them beginning to shoot, I shift 

 them into fresh mould, which should be light and rich with manure, and give 

 Iheia a little water about once a week, until they shew flower buds, after which 

 time 1 supjily them liberally both al lop and in thr pans. In respect to their 

 being placed out of doors, t do not And that they will succeed in that way 

 liefore the latter end of.lune, for one cold night, or even day, will cause the 

 buds to drop ofl ; but if the weather pro\e settled warm, they may be turned 

 out ol the jiol or plauti'd in Iht bordei ; or, to prtvtiil aecideiits the jiut 



