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PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Schizanthi'S Hookeri, &c. — Last year I purchased a small plant of 

 Schizanthus Hookeri, and one of S. retusus, both of which are now in beau- 

 tiful bloom. This spring (very early) I procured seeds of both kinds, and 

 obtained a number of fine plants ; they have been planted in rich soil, good 

 Bized pots, and been kept in a greenhouse. The plants are now very healthy, 

 but grow quite bushy; there is no appearance of any flowering spike. I had 

 understood that the kinds would always bloom the same year as raised from 

 seed. If some correspondent of the Cabinet would inform me whether I may 

 depend upon them flowering this summer, or if they do not flower till the 

 second year, I shall be much obliged; and if nny peculiar mode of treat- 

 ment be requisite to cause them to bloom the first season, I should be ad- 

 ditionally obliged by any information how to proceed. 



Staffordshire, July 9lh, 1835. Clericcs. 



On the Mihi'lus, &c. — I should be obliged if some reader of the Cabinet 

 would give me a list of all the hardy species and varieties of Mimuluses, 

 with a description of the colour of the flowers, prices at which they may be 

 purchased, and the mode of culture. I had a few kinds, but have found 

 some of them difficult lo keep, soon dying off. 



Birmingham. S. P. 



On Brigmansia Si aveolens. — In a tour which I made through Eng- 

 laud, to a number of places, in 1830, 1 saw a few plants of Brugmansia sua- 

 veolens, grown very dwarf, about two feet high, and having a profusion of 

 fine bloEsoms upon them. I have tried to grow them in pots, so as to hare 

 similar plants, but I did not succeed ; not a single flower was produced, and 

 the plants kept increasing in size, so that they became as large as what I 

 had previously grown. If some reader of the Cabinet who understands the 

 mode of treatment above alluded to, would furnish me with it through the 

 medium of your Magazine, I should be much obliged. It was either in 

 Northamptonshire or Lincolnshire where I saw the dwarf plants. 



London, July 3d, 183o. J. G. Palmer. 



On Herman and China Asters, &c. — I grow a considerable quantity of 

 German and China Asters, which for two or three years have been much in- 

 fested with insects. A small green fly attacks the ends of the shoots, the 

 i uiis. -quciicc of which la, that the leaves become much curled and disfigured; 

 this stops the growth of the plants in a very great measure, and they rarely 

 rworer so .is to blossom worth anything. I am wholly at a loss to know 

 how to prevent the Insects attacking the plants, or when they have com- 

 menced their depredation*, how to destroy them. I should be thankful to 

 unv reader of the Ifagazine who "ill give me instructions how to proceed 

 fully in the above matters. My Asters are now pestered with insects, 

 ■0 Bial the favour of an early reply might benefit me so much as to enable 

 in. |o tare my present stock. 



July Uth, J83.'>. A Welsh Physician. 



On IfiaillONBTTE PebishINO, &.C. — Having been much disappointed 



last two years by the loss of the greatest part of nvy Mignioneiic, suwu 



in variiiiiH situations and soil*, I should be glad if you or any of your cor- 



ndents could point out the probable cause of the plant! withering aud 



Jylng off sudd enl y when In full flower, sometimes In the couraeofa row 



hours. On ■MBjntng tb« roots I perceive all tin? fibres are barked, appa 



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