MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 43 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



Query to the Rev. Joseph Tyso, on raising Rancnculuses.-AIIow 

 me throngh the medium of your excellent work, to ask my good friend the 

 Rev J Tyso, who has been and still is one of the most successful growers o 

 fhltb an iful Florist's flower the Ranunculus, to info ™ throve™ of ti ha 

 flower of his method of raising seedlings. He is well aware that the day is 

 eonebv fo keeping anything iecret that is for the pleasure or happiness of 

 our fdlow"S«s g Will he be so kind as to answer the following queries, 

 in as Dlaiu and familiar a manner as possible. 



To name a few of the best flowers in each class to be impregnated », 



2. The kind of flowers proper for the work of impregnation, whether single 



° r 3. e Thftim: most proper to perform the work of impregnation, with the 

 manner of performing it I _ 



4. The future management of the flower impregnated? pomnost in 



5. The best time for gathering and sowing the seed, with ^compost in 

 which it is to be sown, and whether it is best to sow .t in pans or boxes ? 



6 The best plan of preserving the roots till the planting season? 

 I shon d not P have taken the liberty I have, if I had not know* .some ttung 

 of the kind disposition of my good friend; and shall wait with no small 

 decree of impatience for his reply to my queries, 



Now that I feel an inclination for scribbling, I wish to ask you the best 

 situatio, and soil lor the Weeping Willow, as I have succeeded in sinking a 

 cu'ng gi " me by a friend who took it from the tree that grows and spreads 

 its sweeping branches o'er the tomb of 



" Him who rode war's fiery billows 



Once, anil ruled their surges wild, 

 Now beneath Helena's willows 

 Sleopeth— like a child ! 



All bis soaring spirit flown, 



Napoleon! Napoleon! 



In bis grave the warrior sleepcth, 

 Humbly laid, and half forgot, 

 And nought, besides the willow, weepeth 

 O'er that silent spot! 



Culm it is, and all his own, 



Napoleon ! Napoleon !" 



My plant is about fourteen or fifteen inches high with about five or six 

 .lend'er^ranches bending weepiogly from the stem. 1 intend as speedy 

 possible, to increase my stock, when (if you ave no ODjectoon) 1 ff^ 

 },l,asure in presenting you with a plant.-[We shall esteem it a favour. 



^kToTgood fri,nd Revkll, I certainly fe^rf^^ 

 incredulity relative to the size of " Innovator's" Pinks. I have for ^ years 

 grown that beautiful flower, but never to the perfection spoke., of by your 

 Correspondent. My bloom, were universally adnnred, and took the .first an 

 hut I should think the largest did not exceed SIX ^W*^ *» 

 u ,,,//„„„ „/• Watoerlh." 1 hope that, in order all «epticuu? may * 



banished fmm the mi Isnova XQB will at an early period give us an account 



is plan, with the names of the sorts he grows. 

 Leicester, Dec. IVh, 1833. Salft. wigs. 



