210 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 



the roots, rather than parting with a single cue to any other person ; an in- 

 stance of narrowness of mind and ill-niiture, he adds, too common among tb<e 

 lovers of gardening. I trust no one who belongs to this Society will ever 

 deserve a similar reproach. At this period we find the roots were annually 

 imported into England, along with Orange trees and Myrtles from Genoa; 

 and to the directions there given for blowing them so as to havs a suees3sio» 

 of flowers from June to Octol)er, nothing can be added." 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE'. 



QUERIES. 



On a Dwakf Yellow Flowering Plant. — I shall feel obliged to yon, 

 or to any of yonr correspondents in the Florist's Magazine, if you will givtr 

 me the information 1 am about to ask for. 1 have three circular beds, in a 

 sunny part of my garden, each four feet in diameter : one is completely covered 

 with Verbena chamredrifolia (Melindres) ; the other is completely covered with 

 a Lobelia, I believe L. erinus, or it may be L. gracilis (light blue) ; the third 

 is newly made, and I am at a loss what to put in it next spring. I wish to 

 plant it with some flower similar in growth and habit to the above-mentioned 

 Verbena and Lob?lia, but of a yellow colour, and a lasting flower as the Ver- 

 bena and Lobelia both are. The Eschscholtzia californica is too rampant. 

 The Yellow Hawkweed is too high from the ground. The Lotus corniculatus 

 would do, but it is very common in our pastures in this neighbourhood. Now 

 1 shall feel obliged if you will tell me of any flower of a yellow or rose colour, 

 that, excepting in colour, would, as to growth and duration, be in unison with 

 the Verbena and Lobelia; or if any of your corr<;spondents will do so, in an 

 early Number of the Cabinet; and also what soil will suit. Some of the 

 dwarf Cistuses are very pretty, and as to growth, &c. would suit well, but they 

 cease blossoming too early in the summer. Alimulus mosehatus will not do; 

 it gets to look shabby soon after it is turned out of the greenhouse. — Will you 

 also iuform me where I can procure the under- written plants and seeds! 



Calochortus macrocarpus* (bulb), Loudon's Catalogue, page 476, line 30. 



Delphinium Menziesii (perennial plant), Loudon, page 482, line 16. 



Lupinus Cruickshankii (the seeds), Loudon's Additional Supplement, p. 593. 



Stenactis speciosa (the seeds), not in Loudon's or Sweet's Catalogue. 



Collomia grauditlora (seeds), Loudon, page 470, line 10 from bottom. 



Didiscus azureas, or (by Loudon) Trachymeue Cierulea, London, p. 474, 1. 6. 

 [.'ill the above references, excepting the third, are to the I st Supplement ; 

 the third is to the 2nd Supplement, published last year, or up to Decem- 

 ber, 1832.] 



Lupinus elegaus (annual, seeds), and L. mutabilis. 



Schizanthus pinnatus, Humilis (seeds), Nierembergia Phoeuicia (seeds). 



Avgusl 28th, \833. Amicus. 



* I liavp tried Noble, Colvim.f., Lonoinrs, anJ I.r.E at flaitimorsmith, for tliis 

 plant: but in \ain. It is coloured in the Horticultural Transiiptions, three years av^o ; bu! 

 they sav they have no plant. Loidon states it to be culuuicd in llie Uotanical Hegistir. 

 .Nollii. 



