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crowing well iu a litclit loam v soil, and is sparingly increased by cuttings. To 

 its late period of flowering is most probably to be attributed the circumstance 

 of it* never having vet perfected seeds in cultivation. The (Jreek name 

 Dianthus bears the Wine meaning as the Latin ftps Jams, and is compounded 

 of Jio?, God, and av&oc, a flower, literally " divine flower," so termed on 

 account of the extreme beauty of the flowers. 



4 Solhja helerophylla, Various leaved Sollya. Pentandna, Monogyma. 

 Pittosporex. this handsome evergreen twining shrub is a native of Van 

 Diemar's Land, where it was originally detected by Labillardiere, who has 

 given a figure of it in his work on the plants of New Holland. Although 

 usually treated as a greenhouse plant, it proves to be nearly hardy; and when 

 planted against a wall, with a favourable aspect, it will be found to thrive 

 ,a,ii more vigorously than if kept in the conservatory. The one in Mr. 

 Knight's nursery is placed against the west wall of one of the houses, where 

 it has attained the height of six feet, and is annually adorned during the sum- 

 mer and autumn months with a profusion of its brilliant azure blue blossoms. 

 It requires a soil composed of peat and loam, and is readily increased by 

 cuttiims. Named by Dr. Ljndlev, after Kichard Horsman Solly, Esq., 

 F.K.S., and L.S., Bee. 



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QUERIES. 



On the Clltlre of Alstrjsmeria Ligtu. — Your useful and widely cir- 

 culated work seems a proper medium for an Inquiry as to the best mode of 

 treating Alstrameria Ligtu, so as to eusure its flowering. 



i. Mil,, 1834. A Cambrian. 



On the Auricula, &ic. — I should be extremely obliged if you, oranyof 

 your correspondents, will inform me how long the composts for the Auricula 

 iind Polyauthus should be made up before using, and the best time for making 

 them up; also, how long the compost for Pink beds should be made up before 

 inciting the plants, and bow far the plants should be set apart. Should this 

 meet the eye of your correspondent Mr, J. Kevell, perhaps he will be kind 

 euough to inform me respecting the Pink beds. JD. P. 



A', lutiityton, February '26th, 1834, 



Owl i"»i uim. Myrtle Trues, &c— I shall be much obliged by you, or 

 by any of your ooiDHMmdeBU, informing me of the best manner in which to 

 make Myrtles flower. I have several line healthy plants in large pots, but they 

 never flower. Also, how Heliotropes should be treated ? An answer to these 

 l l BW llW »ill very much gratify me. 1 am charmed with your Fluricitltitral 

 (uhmet. — 1 beg leave to add, that one of your correspondents advises Lobelia 

 < nnhnalis plunts to be taken up and housed every winter. My plants arc left 

 (Tf wiiit.-r, and they increase rapidly, and flower very finely. The 

 iitimtn.n nf my garden is in a very high part of England, and much exposed 

 to lo.'li minis: it in, ill fact, accounted a cold situation. Mv/rtella. 



0» i 'iir.uiv, mi. \m.miink. — (.'an you, or any of your readers, inform 

 in. nf lb.- bent method of cultivating the Anemone, and also of raising it 

 from ecdl A Constant Reader. 



/ v •.«>/',, 1834. 



On I'.i i-.' mi. BflFl uinM Si.kiis. — Would you, or any of your cor- 

 respondents, lie kind enough to inform DM of the best way to raise the seeds 

 of a veiy be*utilul Roaffj which I have in iny garden. 1 have not been able 



