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 PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Flowering Geraniums in Summer, &c. — I have a small collection 

 of this lovely family of plants, to which I am ardently attached. I should 

 feel much gratified if you or any of your correspondents would acquaint me 

 with the best method of causing them to flower successfully every year, 

 without the aid of a greenhouse, not having that advantage; I do not mean 

 the common scarlet kinds — with these I have no difficulty in getting a good 

 bloom — but most of the more choice varieties, after flowering well the first 

 year I have had them, do not, the next summer produce more than one or 

 two blossoms, and others not a single bud. I keep them in frames in the 

 winter season, and cut them at the latter end of spring, in the middle of 

 summer, or in the autumn ; changing the compost every six months. I 

 should feel obliged to know the best manner of preserving them in frames 

 during the winter, as I find, notwithstanding I use great care and attention, 

 many of them loose their foliage, and sometimes altogether perish. 



GULIELMUS. 



On Growing Camellias in Rooms, ,kc. — I am much pleased with the 

 paper on the cultivation of the Dahlia, contained in the number of the 

 Florkuhural Cabinet for February last. It is adapted to the Amateur Gar- 

 dener on a small scale, to whom information conveyed in that form is very 

 useful; the article of Mr. S. Appleby, contains much that is useful. I rind 

 a query by a subscriber in the same number, which I also want solved, res- 

 pecting the best time for repotting and pruning Camellias. I also want 

 information respecting that most beautiful of Flowering Shrubs under the 

 following heads. I have no greenhouse, but have about a dozen Camellias 

 in my sitting rooms ; they are infested with the scaly bug, and the blossoms 

 drop off when they are nearly expanding. 1st. A Remedy for the disease 

 mentioned. 2d. The soil best adapted for their culture, and whether much 

 or little dranage is necessary. 3d. If it is necessary they should be placed 

 near the light, and if they will thrive in rooms without fire. 4th. If they 

 require much or little water. And oth. If any particular sorts are more 

 adapted than others to room culture, give a list of their names. If you or 

 any of your correspondents from experience could enlighten me on the fore- 

 going queries, or what would be still better, embody them in an article on 

 the subject, -with any other information you could produce, you would cer- 

 tainly be doing me an acceptable service, and I doubt not many other sub- 

 scribers to your extensively (and deservedly) circulated work. 



Glamorganshire, March ''iQth, 1835. A Subscriber. 



Hints on the Arrangement of Dahlia Catalogues, Prices, &c. — I 

 have just become a subscriber to the Floricullural Cabinet, a Work which I 

 consider of very great service to the public, particularly to amateurs. It is but 

 very lately that I have had an opportunity of enjoying the pleasures of the 

 Flower Garden, having previously resided in the city of London; but being 

 now settled in the country I am disposed to cultivate the Dahlia. I have 

 made large purchases in Dahlias this season to the amount of nearly £40, 

 and was led to such an extensive purchase in a great degree through taking 

 in the work alluded to. — In the course of my purchases I have found a differ- 

 ence in the prices of various catalogues that have passed through my hands, 

 and as I made my purchases early, perhaps before many of the catalogues 

 were published, I shall have to pay more than I should have done, if I had 

 waited for their more general circulation — in addition to which I have not 

 ordered several plants that I should have done, had I have known where 



