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the different sizes of the glass, expense, &c. The situation where I propose 

 to build a greenhouse, is in a lawn adjoining the west end of my house, with 

 an entrance to it by a French window from a sitting-room; therefore, I shall 

 feel obliged, if you will insert in an early Number of your Cabinet, a suitable 

 plan for such a building. Last year I sent you a specimen of moss and 

 grass; the name of the latter (Poa annua) you kindly informed me in the 

 June Number, page 160, but not of the moss. I have now enclosed another 

 piece of the moss and some grasses, and will thank you lo mention their 

 names in the Cabinet. Did you succeed in raising plants from the China 

 seeds which I sent about two years since, very few of them grew under my 

 culture, and all that did, have since died? Wm, Thorn. 



(irilalon, near South ilolton, Devon, Aug. I \th, 1835. 



1'. S. — I intend to subscribe lo your new " Botanist's Magazine of British 

 Plants," in which you will doubtless give figures of the British grasses. 



[Grass, No. 1. is Cynosurus cristatus, Crested Dog's-tail Grass; No. 2. is 

 Holcus lanatus, Meadow Soft Grass; No. 3. Agrostis vulgaris, Fine Bent 

 Grass. The other paper contained three species of lichens (not mosses) : — 1 . 

 Ramalina Fraxinia; 2. Umea liorida; and 3. Lecanora vitellina. Not being 

 numbered, we cannot give our correspondent the names to the kinds. If we 

 have this we will do it with pleasure. The seeds did not succeed. The re- 

 quest shall be complied witli soon. — Conductor.] 



Ox a Plan for Beds on a Grass Lawn, &c. — The sketch I now forward 



for insertion in the Cabinet, is 

 the outline of a piece of ground 

 in front of a bouse I have built 

 (3). I am under the necessity 

 of having the kitchen garden 

 at the front of it, as 1. The 

 other part is for shrubs and 

 flowers. The ground declines 

 from the house about an inch 

 in a foot. I wish to conceal 

 the kitchen ground from the 

 view of the front entrance door, 

 and to do it by means of beds 

 upon the lawn of grass (2) be- 

 tween the house and the gar- 

 den. I should bo much obliged 

 if some correspondent of the 

 Cabinet would give mo a few 

 plans of beds, and how they 

 are to be disposed to answer 

 my purpose. Any suggestion 

 as In I lie kinds of plants or 

 shrubs with which the beds 

 should be occupied, will be an 

 additional favour. The fence 

 at the furthest distance of the 

 ground (5) i> a sunk fence, and the sides a brick wall ten feet high. If an 

 early attention to toy request can bo complied with, it will bo gratefully re- 

 ■ ■ ived. A Retired Tradesman. 



Nottingham, Augustfiitk, 1836. 



ANSWERS. 



\nsukr to a Lawyer's Clerk. — 1 was in London last December, and 



l im In Covent Garden Market, al the large shop fur flowers, bouquets of 



tii.- Russian Violet for sale. I have the Russian Violet; it blooms with me 



from Ninriiib' i single i irk blue, and very fragrant and 



\ l'uv i n w. run Amateur. 

 Bid$.,July, I 



