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luss, (for it will be a very serious loss to persons who have a large collection 

 of bulbs) ; and this can only be done by a continuation of the old method 

 of taking tin m out of the earth every season, after they have finished their 

 reign of beauty. 



1 would here also bear testimony to the many excellent Articles that have 

 appeared in the Ftoriciillural Cabinet, and which have been the means of 

 imparling much valuable information to amateur gardeners, who, like myself, 

 are attached to the culture of nature's most beautiful productions; and, if I 

 urn uot already trespassing too much upon your attention, I would suggest 

 the propriety of advancing the price of your Floral Numbers from (id. each 

 to Is., whereby you would be enabled to give us the plate much better co- 

 loured, with more information; and surely no one would object to give a 

 shilling each mouth for the valuable contents of one of your Numbers, and 

 especially at this time, when the love of flowers is becoming more general 

 everv year, which is fully proved bj our having been able, even in this desert 

 and mountainous part of the country, to form a Floral Society, which has 

 only been in existeuce two years, yet at the last meeting there were flowers 

 and fruit shown which would not have disgraced a much older Society. 



You must excuse my occupying so much of your notice, but perhaps I 

 shall not trespass again. Chas. K. 



SaddUworth, Feb. Hth, 1834. 



[We shall be glad to hear from our correspondent. — Cond.] 



On Flowering Mesembryanthemums, &c. — I shall be obliged if you, 

 or any of your correspondents, would inform me, through the pages of the 

 FUricultural Cabinet, (to which I have been a regular subscriber,) the best 

 method of cultivating the various kinds of Mesembryanthemums, so as to 

 ensure their blossoming. I have had my plants two or three years, and they 

 look very healthy, but have hitherto failed in producing flowers. I have not 

 any means of applying artificial heat, but by hotbeds. 



I should also be glad to know the most certain method of blooming the 

 Cactus speciosa with the above means. Emily. 



March 41 h, 1834. 



On a Selection of Plants. — 1 have been a subscriber to your Magazine 

 from iu comuieuciinent, and I believe I may say you are indebted to me for 

 a very wide circulation of it in this county. Go on, Sir, as you have begun, 

 and you will deserve a still greater patronage than you have yet received. 

 The duties of a parish prevent me from giving that attention to my garden 

 that 1 could wish, and the res aiif/usta domi prevent the erection of a green- 

 house ; but as 1 have a Ian n. » itli beds at intervals on it, to be filled in sum- 

 mer, and a kind friend's sheltering greenhouse lor my Geraniums iu winter, 

 I am anxious to improve my stock of plants, both annuals and perennials, so 

 as to rival my neighbours in beauty, if 1 can. Would you, or any of your 

 numerous correspondents, take pity on a parish priest, and tell him what of 

 each sort (annual or perenntal) would be best to fill two beds now empty — 

 say of 50 feet by 4. The soil is loamy, and half of the beds in shade. Peat 

 and sand are so difficult to procure in our neighbourhood, that I am obliged 

 to forego the claims of their flowers* And if the price of each shrub, and the 

 probable difficulty of procuring the mentioned seeds, were named, the favour 

 •ould bt greater; also, the colour and height of each specified flower. It has 

 long Ix-c-n my wish to make this request, but I have been deterred frcm the 

 f>-ar, that however interesting such information might be to me, it would be 

 little to your nadi r> ; but as, since the desire was first formed, man v have 

 applied to bm lor tin reqnaM I now make, in assisting me you would be als6 

 as»iMiii(: timnv <il > . iur other subscribers. VIOLET. 



li.'ir-w', » 'Us, March 3>d, 1834. 



ANSWKRS. 



On l>r:«TnnyiM. hie Wire worm. — Not seeing any reply to" K. R. W.V 

 inquiry about th< W ir. worm, perhaps, if yon have no better, yon may think 

 ths following worth your inwition :— Finding the Wire •worm in my Ramm 



