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appearance ; it usually grows to the height of two feet ; and flowers from July 

 to September. It requires only the usual treatmeut of annuals, giving it a 

 shady situation, that its flowers may the more regularly continue expanded. 

 The. generic name, Madia, is from the word Madi ; a term employed by the 

 Chilians, to distinguish one of the species of this genus. 



2. Pentstemon Richardsonii, Richardson's Pentstemon. Didynamia, An- 

 giospermia, Scrophularina:. A native of Colombia, introduced in 1825; pe- 

 rennial ; grows to the height of eighteen inches; flowers from July to August, 

 of a pinkish purple colour. It does not admit of division at the root, and 

 should be increased by cuttings, about Midsummer, which readily strike root. 

 Penstemon, from Pente, five ; and stemon, stamea. Richardsonii, from the 

 name of an English botanist. 



3. Centaurea Crocodylium, blush Centaury. Syngenesia, Frustranea. Com- 

 poKitae. A native of Levant; introduced in 1777; grows to the height of 

 eighteen inches; flowers, July to August. This plant, as an annual, affords a 

 pleasing variety in the borders, continues long to produce its delicate pink 

 flowers, and dues not become straggling and obtrusive. It requires only usual 

 treatment. Centaurea, from the Greek Kentauros, signifying a centaur. 

 Crocodylium, is said to have been applied to this plant from some fancied re- 

 semblance of the spines of its calyx to the claws of a crocodile. 



4. Delphinium Consolidi, branching Larkspur. Polyandria, Trigynia. Ra- 

 nunculacea;. A native of England, grows in corn fields; rare; annual, grows 

 two feet high; flowers, from June to August. Delphinium, from the Greek, 

 Delphin, dolphin ; supposed resemblance of the nectary. Consolida, from the 

 Latin cousolidare, soldering, or closing up a wound. 



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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



I am afraid you will think me troubling you too much, concerning the cul- 

 tivation of plants; but your Magazine is so entertaining, and has created such 

 a zeal for flowers in me, that I cannot resist requiring it. Would some of 

 your correspondents favour me with the best manner of cultivating that beau- 

 tiful class of flowers, the Bignonias, and Staphelias. I should feel much gra- 

 tified also, with the proper quantity of water, on an average, Greenhouse 

 plants ought to have iu winter, and the best temperature of the house during 

 that season. X. Y. Z. 



I shall feel greatly obliged to any of your readers who will inform me, 

 through the medium of your Magazine, the manner of propagating the liig- 

 nonia, as I have tried several ways without success. E. J. 13. 



l.imchousc, Nov. 15th, 1833. 



Will any of your readers he kind enough to inform me what culture Myr- 

 tles require, so as to make them produce their fragrant blossoms? 



Oct. 22nd, 1833. T. G. S. 



I frequently see, in the Fluricultural Cabinet and other works, mention made 

 of 48*1 and (ill's sized pots. It would be very satisfactory to myself, and 

 perhaps to many others, if thyself or some correspoudent of the Cabinet 

 would inform us the size in inches of 3U's, 48's, 00's, &c. &.C. &c. 



I'niru, WthMu.l, 1833. A SunsciUBEit. 



I should feel obliged il you or any of your readers would describe the best 

 way to cultivate that uoble flower the Dahlia from seed— I mean the most 



