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with the plant in it may be iilunged iuto the earth, and it will succeed very 

 well, though the blobsouis will not last so loner as when the plant is kept in- 

 doors. Gieat attention must be paid to keep them well watered. 



Vour correspondent " Snoivdro))" has asked a question in the last number 

 which is hii;hly interesting to me, as 1 am particularly attached to the culture 

 of bulbous-rooted plants, and have a list descriptive of several very beautiful 

 species of Ixia's, Gladiolus's, Babiana's,and Lachcnalias. 1 would therefore be 

 greatly obliged if you could obtain for me, from any of your correspondents, 

 information as to the time and place when aud where thej' may be procured; 

 also the usual prices, that 1 may regulate my orders accordingly; as 1 cannot 

 get any of them where I reside, and have unsuccessfully commissioned friends 

 to purchase them for me in town. 



1 have now a few words to say respecting my letter inserted in your July 

 number. 1 am so sincere an admirer of, and well wisher to, your publication, 

 that I should be extremely sorry to give ofleuce to any of your contributors, 

 particularly to one who has proved so valuable a correspondent as " Snow- 

 drop"; and therefore beg to apologise for my hasty and rather petulant ani- 

 madversions on his note, occasioned, I can assure yon, entirely by my erro- 

 neously imagining that he wished to engross the pages of the Cabinet exclu- 

 sively for subjects of interest to himself, without consulting the taste or wishes 

 of other subscribers ; aud to depreciate the work by bringing the plates in 

 comparison with others of six or seven times the price. He was clever enough 

 to discover that I am no gardener, but his sneer at my modesty was not quite 

 so piquant as he imagined, since it proved the highest compliment he could 

 pay me (being a female), to observe, that he allowed me to possess some share 

 of that best attribute of my sex ! 



1 trust he will be satisfied with this apology, and let all contention cease 

 between him and 



An Amateur, 



Or (according to his suggestiou) 



SVLVIA GUliEN. 



!u reply to jour correspondent " Iris," page l-ll, where he is enquiring the 

 reason of Carnations droojiing and dying when near bloom, 1 beg to inform 

 him that it is caused by growing them too strong in the wintersituation. 'I'he 

 layers should be planted in light, but poor soil ; for if they are planted in a 

 rich compost in winter, thty make a large quantity of roots, and become very 

 strong, throwing up stems for bloom; which causes them to grow luxuriant, 

 the stems become very pithy, and the sap cannot properly circulate. 'J'hey 

 then turn to a whitish green, and assume an unhealthy appearance, and when 

 near blooming they droop, as if in want of water. 1 am persuaded, that if 

 " Iris" will take and cut through the stems, he will see that they are full of 

 pith, and quite dry, being destitute of sap. If " Iris" wishes to grow for com 

 petition, 1 should recommend him to grow one part of his plants in a very 

 rich comjiost, in order to get them of a very high colour. In doing this, he 

 must always expect to tind some that run to one colour; but if he grows one 

 or two of each kind on a bed that is of a poorish, but light soil, and if they 

 should chauce to run by being grown loo rich, and in that case if any die by 

 being so treated, he will see that he has saved the other which was grown on 

 poor soil. Such is the way extensive cultivators of the Carnation do, or 

 they would soon lose the greater part of their best sorts. It is to be regretted 

 that those kinds that are of a high colour, are most subject to run — such ;is 

 Carlwright's Rainbow, pink bizarre; Walmsley's William the Fourth, scarlet 

 bizarre; Taylor's Festival, scarlet flake ; liellerophou, purple Hake; Tyso's Prin- 

 cess Victoria, rose flake; and Martin's Prince George of Cumberland, red picotee. 

 Such as the above, aud all that are of a high colour, similar to those named, 

 bhould not be grown in too rich a soil; but at some future ])eriod I intend 

 bending you an article on the cultivation of the Caruatiou. 



Pitsm'uor, Auyiisi 'Srd. JouN UlmiLL. 



[NoTB. — We shall be nuich obliged by Mr. Uevell's promiitd article, at 

 au caily couvvuicucc, — Co^Dlt■lCR.] 



