MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 159 



On Ericas. — In your last number is a reply to Clerici s, enumerating 

 a li it of p'.ants as evergreens, in which are to be found the names of three 

 Ericas only. This beautiful tribe of plants appears greatly neglected, seldom 

 being s-en but in the larger greenhouses, although there are many that bear 

 our climate al least in the south of the island. As a subscriber to the Flori- 

 ciillural Cabinet, may I request the favour of any Correspondent to insert 

 the names of such as are found hardy, of which I believe there are nearly 

 forty, and where such are to be procured, with the best system of cultivation 

 and how they are propagated or increased, and if any degree of heat is ne- 

 cessary for thiR. G. \V. 



Rotherham, May I8//1, 1835. 



On the Erythrol.ssa conspkla. — I had this spring some seeds of 

 Erythrolaena conspicua, (large scarlet Mexican Thistle,) which I shared with 

 ► '>me of my Floricultural friends, but though sown in various soils and 

 situations, in frames, hotbeds, and the open ground, and in different aspects, 

 we have not been successful in raising a single plant. After a period of 

 either a month or six weeks from sowing the seed, I have found upon in- 

 spection, either that they had rotted or that they remained in the same state 

 in which they were put into the ground. It is described as being a most 

 splendid plant, and I am desirous of establishing it in my garden, and in 

 those of my neighbours. Perhaps some of your correspondents will have 

 the kindness, through the medium of your excellent Cabinet, to which I 

 have been a subscriber from its commencement, to insert in one of your 

 numbers, the best way of cultivating this Thistle, the best season for sow- 

 ing the seed, the soil, and whether in the garden, or frame, or hot-bed, and 

 time of transplanting (if capable of it). S. A. H. 



Vicarage, near Arundel, Sussex. 



On Exotics, &c. &c. — In the first numbers of your Cabinet, you proposed 

 that in some future ones, you would give some hints for the cultivation of 

 Exotics ; and also you mentioned that you would attend to the suggestion of 

 a Correspondent, in giving directions for "keeping up a stock of flowers." 

 I have taken in all the numbers of your interesting little periodical, and 

 have not as yet observed that there have been any remarks upon either. It 

 may have escaped my notice by chance. I have tried to raise some Mig- 

 niiuiette and Ten-Weeks Stocks, in pots, for early spring flowering bv sowing 

 in Autumn, and protecting in a greenhouse through the winter: but" not one 

 of the Stocks, and only one pot of the Mignionette has succeeded. Can you 

 be so kind as to tell me whether the Stocks (in particular) ought not to be 

 kept as dry as possible while very young ! Some other annuals such as the 

 ( oreopaU, 8tC, have succeeded very well by the same treatment as the others. 



[An answer next month. — Cosntic'TOR. 



W. B. 



ANSWERS. 



Reply to \V. J. Linton. — In Vol. II., p. 290, W. J. Linton requests 

 Information respecting flowering the Partridge Breast Aloe, (Aloe variegata,) 

 aud In reply I beg to inform hiui I cultivate them, in not too large pots, in 

 u mixture of loam, leaf mould, and old mortar rubbish, keeping them cool 

 and nearly dry during winter; and in spring renew the, temperature of their 

 department, and supply them with a greater quantity of water, and plenty of 

 light mid air when necessary. -May is the best time to pot them. 



V. AsllI'ORD. 



on Dahlia*.— If the Qentlamnn who subscribed himself " A West 



1 KYMAN,' in tin Jane number of the I'turicultural Cabinet, upon the 



•abject of the circulation o£ Catalogue! of Dahlias, (or some other competent 



individual who is an admirer of the Dahlia), would interest himself in 



• nuning no annual publication lo be published in the natlli a Register, 



1 have cv.-ry reason t.i believe li>- would have the support of tit.-; leading 

 «"..v. A Si its. nun 1. 



C a mbrid ge, nth /una, 1886. 



