44 MISCELLANEOUS. INTELLIGENCE. 



On Sweet-scented Violet -. — -Being in Loudon early in December, I 

 saw a considerable quantity of Sweet-scented Violets, which I learnt had 

 been grown in tho open air, but I could not learn where. I grow what is 

 usually called the Neapolitan Violet, but I cannot get it to bloom in the open 

 air at this season. If the kind now exhibiting for sale in Covent Garden 

 be a different species, I should be glad if some reader of the Cabinet would 

 inform me; and if so, where 1 can purchase plants. If it be only the 

 Neapolitan, and a peculiar mode of culture be the cause of such a production 

 of flowers, at this season, I should he glad if some person would furnish an 

 account of it through the medium of the Cabinet. 

 Birmingham, Dec. 26th, 1834. A Lawyer's Clerk. 



Double White Narcissi's. — I should be glad of information as to the 

 best mode of flowering this bulb. I have tried it in hot and cold, moist and 

 dry situations, with equal ansucoess. Out of about oO bulbs, I last year pro- 

 cured one bloom on a north damp border. With me (and I believe many 

 others) in whatever situation they are planted, the scape appears and ad- 

 vances towards maturity, but the flower bud almost invariably dies off with- 

 out blooming. Snowdrop. 



On Climbing Roses, &c— I should feel greatly obliged to T. Rivers, 

 Jan., if he will perform his promise of making a list of the Climbing Roses, 

 suitable for training on pillars, and at the same time say how they are 

 pruned, and whether they should be planted in clay, or blue or red marl ; 

 in short I should be most thankful for a full description of the most ap- 

 proved method of forming " Pillars of Roses." Rosamond. 



On the Culture or Camellias, &,c— Will you, or any of the readers 

 of the Cabinet, favour me by answering the following questions in your nest 

 number!— 1st. Which is the proper season for repotting and pruning Ca- 

 mellias after they have flowered?— 2d. Which are the proper times for 

 shifting the Hippeastruin Stylosinums Pancrathims, the various species of 

 Crinums, and removing their offsets! 

 22d Dec. A Subscriber. 



On Sellers of Flower Roots, Plants, &c. — I do not know whether it 

 would suit the plan of the publication, but I conceive a list of respectable 

 Flower Salesmen would be of service to Amateur Growers generally; and I 

 apprehend had such a list been occasionally published, Innovator would 

 not have had to enquire for " Hepworth's Leader" Carnation ; nor should I, 

 through your pages, now have to seek for " Alleway's Wonder of the World" 

 purple flake. Indeed, I am completely debarred growing many flowers, from 

 my ignorance of the names and addresses of proper persons from whom to 

 procure them. I hope, therefore, the suggestion for a list of such Florists 

 as may be likely to supply healthy plauts, &.c. correct and true to name 

 and colour, may not prove' unacceptable to you, nor foreign, I trust, to the 

 nature and plan of the work you have undertaken. Furnish mc with the 

 name and address, if you can, of any one able to supply tho "Wonder of 

 the World " or with Alleway's address, from whom I should prefer getting 

 the plant (if a grower for sale). A. Z. 



Ross, Dec. 20th, 1831. 



On Evergreen Shrubs. — I have a shrubbery, principally beds upon a 

 grass lawn, of three acres, a border on the outside is well wooded with 

 Laurels but they are too large for most parts of the lawn. I am wishful 

 to grow Evergreen Shrubs, of a dwarfer habit than Laurels are, and to have 

 a good selection, I shall esteem it a favour if you, or some of the readers of 

 the Floricnltural Cabinet, would give me a list of the handsomest kinds, and 

 some idea of the probable charge per plant, and where they may be obtained. 

 I have removed a number of Laurels from the lawn beds, so that at present 

 they are destitute of Evergreen Shrubs; wishiug to replant this Spring, an 

 early attention to my request will greatly oblige 



Cheshire, Dec. 23(1, 1 83L ( ' LE RICUS. 



P.S. 1 have several plants of that beautiful flowering shrub, Pose Acacia 

 (Robinia hispida), that have been trained as standards, the stem being from 



