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PART III. 



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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Erecting Greenhouses, &c. — As it is very easy to convict you of 

 having, by means of your Floricullufal Cabinet, imparted to many, as well 

 as to myself, a love of Floriculture.; and also of having, at sundry times, 

 alluded to and spoken of a greenhouse, as subsidiary and almost indispen- 

 sible to it, the least you can do — and I am surprised you have not already 

 felt the propriety of it — is to give us some information as to the most eco- 

 nomical mode of erecting that which you have provoked us to desire. For 

 myself, 1 have only a very small space which I can appropriate to that pur- 

 pose. It is about ten feet square, with a wall on the north and west: 

 through the latter I can pass a pipe from a steam-boiler, and I wish to 

 know what length of piping, and of what bore, must be disposed with my 

 greenhouse, or rather green-closet. If you will give a little advice on this 

 subject in your next Number, or as early us possible, and at the same time 

 say what is the cheapest sort of piping, where it may be procured, and the 

 price per foot or yard, you will greatly oblige Juvenis. 



[Next month the subject will be attended to Conductor.] 



On Raising Ten-week Stocks, &c. — I am very partial to Ten-week, 

 Russian, and, in fact, all kinds of Stocks. Thi3 season I sowed a large thrco- 

 light frame with seed ; a most abundant crop of plants succeeded ; they 

 appeared healthy for the first three weeks, having got into what is termed 

 " rough leaf," but on a sudden nearly the whole crop withered, and eventu- 

 ally died. I used great care as to giving air and water, and the bed was 

 only of a temperate heat. I should be much obliged if some correspondent 

 of the Cabinet would furnish me with an account of the means of preventing 

 such injury in future. J. G. Pakker. 



Hants, June 2nd, 1835. 



On Destroying the Fly Insect which infests Rose Trees. — At 

 this season of the V'ear, my Rose trees are generally much infested with the 

 greenfly insect, the lower buds being covered with them. I should be glad 

 if some of the readers of the Cabinet would give me the description of the 

 cheapest, easiest, and most effectual method of destroying the insects. 



Lincolnshire, June ith, 1835. Rosa. 



On Heartsease. — Being a constant reader of your delightful little work, 

 I make bold to trouble you with the following questions: — First, who is the 

 best person (near London) to procure Heartsease from .' Second, what is the 

 best soil to grow them in I Third, a list of the best and newest kinds toge- 

 ther with their prices? Fourth, how is the process of impregnation per- 

 formed, and at what season ! Fifth, where can I get the Iver Beauty, and 

 at what price ? Wishing all success to your valuable publication, 



London, 2d June, 1835. Veritas. 



On Dahlias. — Allow me through the medium of your valuable and de- 

 lightful Cabinet, to enquire either of yourself or of one of your Corres- 

 pondents whether that engaging plant " The Dahlia," is not as successfully 

 grown by planting the roots in the natural ground about the end of April, as 

 by the tedious method of first striking them in heat. Of course I allude 

 only to the good flowering of the plants where pleasure and not profit (by 

 additional increase) is to be considered. An answer to this in your July 

 number will be esteemed a favor conferred on, your constant reader, 



May 26th, 1835. Flora* 



