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TART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On BBITISH Hybrid Chrysanthemums. — Soruc mouths back, I read an 

 advertisement, stating that a Nurseryman, (I think, residing near Oxford), 

 bad raised twelve new varieties of Chrysanthemums. If any of the readers 

 of the Floricultural Cabinelha.ro seen them in bloom, I shall be much obliged 

 by information as to their colours and merits, wishing to purchase them if 

 they are valuable additions to this delightful tribe of plants. 



Dec. 8th, 1834. An Enquirer. 



Kibes speciosum. — During last Spring, a friend informed me of a new 

 hardy Currant, Kibes speciosum, and stated that he had heard the flowers 

 were equally handsome with the Fuchsia gracilis. I made enquiry for a 

 plant in J.ondon, but could not obtain one, and information was sent me that 

 v, ere one to be met with, it would be charged two guineas. I am desirous of 

 knowing the merits of the flowers, whether they are as above stated, and if 

 so, are they produced in abundance. Also, what the plants are now selling 

 at, and where they may be obtained. If any of the readers of the Cabinet, 

 who may have flowered the plant, or seen it in bloom, will favour me with a 

 reply to my request, I shall esteem it a favour. 



Staffordshire Potteries. J. T. S. 



On blooming the sweet-scented Cyclamen.. — I shall feel obliged if 

 you, or any of your Correspondents, will inform me, at the earliest oppor- 

 tunity, of the best method of blooming that lovely plant, the sweet-scented 

 Cyclamen ; likewise, the best and surest plan of propagating it ; and whether 

 a warm room will suit it, the writer of this not having a greenhouse. 



Die. 13/A, 1834. A Subscriber. 



OncniDEOrs Epiphytes. — I am anxious to cultivate this singularly prettv 



tribe of plants, and have constructed a small house for the purpose, which 



will afford me powerful and moist temperature; observing in the accounts 



n in the Cabinet, that to grow them well such advantages must bo 



led. My house will hold about one hundred plants. I am desirous of 



growing the handsomest, but am not at all acquainted with them, having 



only seen a few plants at an Horticultural Exhibition in Scotland. If some 



Correspondent or reader of the Floricultural Cabinet, who is acquainted witli 



them, would give me a list of what can be recommended as suitable, I shall 



esteem it a favour, and an early attention to it, will be an additional kind- 



inferred on — A Yorkshireman. 



Kuril) Riding, Jan. 'lit, 183.0. 



Ok Camellias enduring the Open Air. — I have just been informed 

 that some Camellias have been grown in the open ground at Wortley Hall, 

 without winter protection, far I . < r.il years. I should be glad to bo informed 

 if this In- a fact ; and if so, how wire the plants inured to the climate of this 

 rountrv, and how do they SUCCCi (1 .' 



Jan. \th, 183.5. S. S. 



I We gave some observations upon them in a note appended to an Article 

 on Camellias, by An Esse* Pra< riCAL Gardener, inserted in Vol. I, p. 19, 

 "f tin. Magazine, to which we refer our Correspondent. The shrubs still 

 (loutish amazingly, and are loaded each spring with flowers. The buds are 

 produced in such abundance, tint we are under the necessity of thinning 



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