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On bloomino Nerium splendens. — A few years ago I saw at Uoss, in 

 Herefordshire, a very elegant plant, the Nerium spleudeiis, in full bloom, and 

 which tlie owner had raised from a small plant which he kept in his parlour. 

 Jlaving purchased a plant at the Fulhani Nursery of the same description, I 

 have had it four or five years, and have not been able to get it to blow. Your 

 instructions will much oblige 'J'uos. LuFF. 



Edinijlon, Berks, Sept. 1th, 1833. 



P.S. J keep it during the winter in my parlour, and the backs of the leaves 

 are sometimes covered with white s.pots. 



On the Tuljp and Hyacinth. — I have been a subscriber to the Floricul- 

 titral Cabinet since its first appearance, and have derived both instruction and 

 amusement from it. The readiness with which you receive all ((uestions sent 

 by those desirous of information upon the management of a flower garden, 

 induces me to ask you if the common border Tulip may be suffered to remain 

 in the ground during the winter, uninjured by frost or rain ? My garden has 

 three very long flower-bordere, in which I have above 1300 Tulips, all of the 

 most common tmnamed kinds. They are scarcely worth the trouble or ex- 

 pense of taking up, drying, and replanting at the proper season ; and 1 should 

 be glad to avoid it if possible. I observe, in an article ou the culture of the 

 Hyacinth, by Snowdrop, in your last Number, that he considers that the 

 bulbs of that (lower should not be removed oftener than once in four years. 

 A\'ould the same treatment apply to the border Tulip? Perhaps Snowdrop 

 will reply to this Query. S. A. H. 



J all/ til/t, 1833. 



On cultivating German and China Asters. — Will any of your floral 

 correspondents favour me with information as to the best mode of cultivating 

 the German and China Aster; together with a description of the several 

 varieties, and what constitutes their different merits as show flowers. 



Sept. 9th, 1833. Tiro Florileges. 



Gladiolcs cardinalis. — I shall be obliged to you, or any of your corres- 

 pondents, to inform me, what is the best method of treatment to pursue with 

 that beautiful flowering balbous plant, Gladiolus cardinalis, so as to have it 

 bloom vigorously. J. W. 



Has the mixture of a portion of manganese, or the oxide of manganese, 

 with the earth in which the roots of flowers are implanted, the property of 

 inducing brighter colours in the petals of flowers J if the application have 

 this desirable efl'ect, will you, or one of your correspondents, be ])leased to 

 state what proportion of the mineral should be vised, and how, and at what 

 time J Aster. 



ANSWERS. 



Resiarks on the State.ments of " An Old F. H. S."-T-The Committee 

 ■of the .Metropolitan Society, alluded to by a writer under the signature "An 

 Old F. H. S." page 16G, beg to state, that so far from the Society having 

 " always held its meetings at some tavern in Gray's Inn lane, Cornhill, or 

 IJillinpsgate," as asserted by the anonymous writer, the Society has never once 

 met at one of those places, nor at any tavern near them ; the only two tavern 

 meetings in London being their shows at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, 

 Strand, and twt'lve out of the fourteen business meetings they have had having 

 been held at private houses, not near one of those places. — The Committee's 

 determination to keep out improper characters, which seems to lay them open 

 to the malevolent but impotent slanders of the rejected class, will contimie 

 unshaken; and .Mr. Hakuison would not have been troubled even with the 

 present notice, but that i)ersona in the country might huvu otherwise been 

 deceived. 



Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, Sept. Wth, 1833, 



[We most gladly insert the above, to correct so gross a misstatement as that 

 •ent nil, and insi-rted at page IfitJ. We should be truly sorry fur any thing to 

 bo inserted in our Mai^a/.inu that would in the least degree be an undeserved 

 reflection upon any .Society, particularly one whose object is to promote the 

 iuttTests of Gardrning, and one so respectably suj>|>orled as the Metropolitan 

 Society appear* to bc-rCoNuixTon] 



