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PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On the Cactus, &c.-I should be glad if you, or any of your correspon- 

 dents, could inform me of the best mode of cultivating the Cactus, and also 

 tho Heliotrope. An early answer will oblige . 



Cheshunt, July 13, 1835. **»**• 



On Hyacinths, ^c.&c.-Much has been written in your ""*•#""' 

 Cabinet on the culture, &c. of Hyacinths, but no one h " * vea ^f 

 Ibe best sorts now in cultivation. Will you, or some rtg™™™^ 

 dents, be so kind as to furnish a list of the above-mentioned beautiful flower 

 with he properties, prices, &c,like that of the Dahlia, ("?»»« ten ^ e ^ 

 that in Vol. I. l>. 244,) and where they are to be had m London Likewise 

 be so kind as to give a list of the best Auriculas, with their prices, &.c. By 

 -o doing you will much oblige a „ nm .„r. 



June 25, 1835. A Subscriber in the West of Scotland. 



On a Hortus Siccus.— I lately saw a Hortus Siccus which I thought 

 very good and beautiful, the specimens shewing the character by on y the 

 .kek-tons of the leaves and stalks, the cuticle sap and vegetative parts en- 

 tirely destroyed, leaving only the fibrous or woody part. Can any of your 

 numerous and intelligent correspondents give instructions of the process .and 

 preparations ! It is performed naturally by maceration and drying repeat- 

 edlv, but that way is uncertain for perfect specimens and very tedious. 



• A Subscribe*, and Admirer of Floriculture and Botany. 



London, July 16, 1835. 



On the Culture of Zinnias.— Being an admirer of all the species and 

 varieties of Zinnias, which I have successfully grown in pots in the groen- 

 h!nse 1 am desirous to grow them in beds of a sort in the flower garden. 

 I have tried to do so for two years, but cannot succeed. The plants begin to 

 damn off, sometimes half way up the stem, even this dry season. I water 

 ScSasionally over the tops. The soil is loam well enriched. If some 

 reader of the Cabinet, who is acquainted with a mode of culture that suc- 

 Ss, would inform me, I should be glad of the communication through 

 the medium of its pages. ««*** ANN »■ 



Lciccstrrshin-.July 28, 1835. 



n, \,,im Plants — Being about to make a collection of Alpine Plants 

 in not* after Mr. M'lntosh's system, I should be obliged if some ot your 

 numerous correspondents would furnish a list of the most choice kinds m 

 cultivation. Likewise the best treatment of them in summer and winter, 

 illld „, (; ,„ oove them to at different seasons ot the year, soil, 



\\ M. KING. 

 . JCC. 



Cattle, Cardiff, July, 1885 



,.,>..,,-... Hbbbacbous Plowbbino Plant-, amonost American 



Shrubs.— A Wend called upon me a few days since, and in looking through 



mvthrubben and Plow Gardens, discovered that, In a recently planted 



, composed of Rhododendrons, Kalmias, Azaleas, OMnese 



Dspbucs, fcc which were plRBted three fset apajt, I had tolled up 



