68 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Drying Flowers. — I am very desirous of knowing how to dry flowers, 

 as I am making a collection of Pansies, and wish, instead of drawing them, 

 to have a dried specimen of each, that I may not get the same plant twice 

 over. I find it difficult to get them to retain their colour — that is to say, the 

 blues and purples. If in an early Number you can give me any information 

 on this subject, I shall feel obliged. Pansy (2nd.) 



On Poisonous Plants. — I should, and doubt not many other cultivators 

 of flowers, who like me have young families, would also, be much obliged to 

 any of your Botanical correspondents who would give a few remarks by which 

 they might be guided in distinguishing plants possessing poisonous qualities. 

 Is it found that the generality of the plants, in any division of the Linnaean 

 or natural systems, are poisonous or otherwise? Which of the florists' flowers 

 or common greenhouse plants are poisonous? And above all, what is the best 

 autidote for vegetable poisons, and how and in what quantities should it be 

 used ! — I fiud much difficulty in preventing my little ones from picking and 

 tasting leaves of any plants within reach, and I hope some medical amateur 

 of the science will relieve me from my consequent dilemma. 



Jan. 9lh, 1834. X. 2. 



On Cultivating Epacris grandiflora, &c. — I shonld be happy if any 

 of your numerous readers would furnish ine with an account ol the means of 

 cultivating the Epacris grandiflora and Corrcea speciosa ; also the various 

 species of CEnothera. Albert Phillips. 



Jan. loth, 1834. 



On Fuchsias as Border Plants, &.C.— Will all kinds of Fuchsias flourish 

 under the same mode of treatment as that adopted hy Mr. Sharman in respect 

 to the F. gracilis, viz. cutting them down every autumn and leaving the roots 

 in the common ground, with only a covering of leaf-mould through the 

 winter? The sorts I cultivate, besides the Gracilis, are the virgata, micro- 

 phylia, elegans, globosa, and bacillaris. Also, will the Double Yellow Rose- 

 Tree flower and flourish in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, in the open ground ? 

 My garden receives all the sun till about one o'clock in the afternoon, and the 

 soil is chiefly composed of leaf-mould, decayed wood, &.c. An answer to the 

 foregoing questions, in an early Number of your very cheap, useful, and 

 interesting publication, will greatly oblige 



A Constant Subscriber. 



On the Situation of a Greenhouse, &c. — The Floriciiltiiral Cabinet 

 has been a favorite with me from its commencement : it is exactly the sort of 

 book for a practical gardener, and also for the many who like myself are fond 

 of flowers, and employ their leisure hours in cultivating the little spot of 

 ground at the back of their houses in " the pent-up city," which they dignify 

 by the name of a garden ! I have Loudon, and Maund, and Curtis, and 

 SowsBBY, and Withering; and when one of my favorites looks sickly, I 

 turn over their pages to ascertain the nature of the disease, whether it is owing 

 to soil or situation — to too much or too little rain or sunshine; and after all, 



