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would be better to incorporate the two works into one, and would answer the 

 purpose better, as the separation impedes the sale of the works. You have 

 promised us a list and description of the varieties of Camellia Japonica ; it 

 has not yet appeared. — [We had it promised us, but it has not yet come to 

 hand. — Cond.] — In respect to Innovator on the PinV, as far as any one is 

 concerned by being troubled with earth worms, I perfectly agree with his mode 

 of preventing their injurious effects, having successfully adopted the plan. — 

 I wish to know from you the method of placing a piece of window glass over 

 a pot of heath cuttings, &c. as given in the 1st Vol., page 19; does it consist 

 of one piece placed on the top of the pot, — [it does — Cond.] — or of five pieces 

 formed so as to bring them similar in shape to a handglass in miniature I 

 An early answer will oblige. 



I wish to know of Mr. Hogg, what he means by maiden earth ; does he in 

 every instance, where he has occasion to mention it in his Treatise on Florist 

 Flowers, mean maiden loam, or the top spit of a loamy pasture field ? I 

 consider maiden earth an indefinite term, as there is maiden loam, maiden 

 peat, maiden wood-earth, and a variety of other maiden soils of tints, tex- 

 tures, complexions. &c. A Well Wisher to your Magazines. 



Dec. 6th, 1833. 



ANSWERS. 



Culture of the Anemone. — In reply to B. C. L.'s inquiry concerning 

 the culture of the Anemone, I beg leave to inform him, through yoiir Cabinet, 

 the method I have adopted for the last twenty years. Take two parts of rich 

 meadow trenching earth, sward and all, and one of rotten dung from an old 

 cucumber bed ; let it be turned four or five times, to sweeten and pulverise it; 

 then take as much as will be sufficient to make the bed from two and a half 

 to three feet deep ; after letting it stay two or three weeks to settle, rake the 

 surface of the bed even, and the last week in November, or the first in De- 

 cember, plant your roots : take a planting-board, as described in Vol. I. p. 82 of 

 the Cabinet; make your holes, and put in your roots with the crowns upward, 

 and cover them with the same compost. I prefer planting with the board 

 and dibble, because the roots are then all one depth in the ground, and they 

 come up all at the same time. As to planting Anemones in the month of 

 March, as is the practice of some, I am confident they never can get a general 

 good bloom, neither will they have an iucrease of roots. 



James Miles. 



Hilperton, near Trowbridge, Jan. 15th, 1834. 



On the Bignonia, &c. — A correspondent, at page 21, requests information 

 how to propagate the Bignonia. I have a large plant thirty feet high, which 

 sends out a sufficient quantity of suckers to supply all the increase that I 

 need ; but I have propagated from ripened cuttings, and from pieces of the 

 roots. A neighbour of mine propagates it from layers, each shoot flowering 

 in about two years. 1 have raised it from seed that was sent me from Ame- 

 rica. An Ardent Amateur. 



On Pinks, &c. — I expected nothing more would have been said respecting 

 my mode of growing Pinks, after the authority I adduced in proof of others 

 producing them as large, or larger, than myself; but I find myself beset by 

 two more two-inch growers — one, Mr. Wigg, who declares his maximum 

 standard to be two inches, aud that he won the first prize with these things; 

 this is really a disgrace upon the Florists of the neighbourhood if there were 

 any competitors. It is well known that twenty years ago, 24 inches was the 

 minimum standard. Is this not retrograding with a vengeance, when every 

 branch of Floriculture is making such rapid strides in advance? Mr. Wigg 

 asks for my plan : I refer him to your First Volume, September Number, page 

 146, which, if fully acted upon, will amply repay him, particularly if he at- 

 tends to the manner of preparing the pipings. I am the more anxious to iin- 

 prrss this upon his mind as hi will in the course of three or four years find 

 evwy laced Mower come perfect, instead ol hall the petals plain, which is the 



