140 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Please to say what sized pots would be most suitable, and whether a small, 

 or large quantity would thrive best together. Several which I purchased, in 

 the spring were taken out of the ground, and since I have had them in pots, 

 the flowers hitherto have been quite different to what the plant produced 

 prior to its removal; but now they seem to be just recovering their natural 

 colour. Is that usual with the Pansey ! I fancy, by removing the flowers 

 after they have done blooming, as they die down, though you deprive your- 

 self of their seed, it tends to keep the flowers large and healthy. — You would 

 much oblige me by an early answer. T. B. 



Shrewsbury, May 7, 1834. 



Ox Dahlias. — Two very young Florists will be grateful to any of the 

 readers of the Floricultural Cabinet, to inform them which are the best 

 Dahlias to choose the seeds from, so as to ensure double flowers, and if it is 

 possible when seedlings are raised to tell which plants will produce double 

 and which single flowers: Eliza a.nd Elizabeth. 



Ensluun, Oxfordshire, May 10, 1834. 



Ox Flowerixg Dutch Bulbs. — In your March Number, arc some ex- 

 cellent directions for the treatment of Dutch Bulbs in pots ; but what I am 

 particularly desirous to know is, the management of such Bulbs after they 

 have been flowered in water. I am particularly fond of these beautiful flowers 

 grown in glasses, and generally succeed in having them flower very nicely 

 in the winter, as I buy very good roots. But if you, or any of your corre- 

 spondents, will inform me how to treat them when they have ceased to 

 flower, I shall be extremely obliged. I am aware they will deteriorate, and 

 probably not blow for some seasons again in water, but with me they have 

 ceased to flower at all. QiXo? Zvmu,-. 



April \Sth, 1834. 



Ox Hardy Flowering Shrubs. — Doubtless, many of your numerous 

 subscribers, (like myself), have a shrubbery and lawn, as well as flower bor- 

 ders; it would be very useful and interesting, if you would insert in your 

 pages more articles on Hardy Flowering Shrubs. I shall feel particularly 

 obliged, if you will publish in an early Number, the best mode of culture, 

 soil, and situation, of these beautiful and very favourite, shrubs of mine, the 

 varieties of Rhododendron and Azalea. Also, if you will give some plans 

 and elevations of small greenhouses and frames, with the probable expense. 



In your Number for September last, X. Y. Z. stated, that he had not suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining flowers from the Glycine sinensis, synonyme, Wistaria 

 consequana. In March, 1830, I received from a Nurseryman a small plant 

 in a pot, eight or ten inches in height. I selected a spot on a south wall, had 

 the earth removed to the depth of 16 or 18 inches, and about four feet over ; 

 this space was filled with about equal quantities of light rich loam and bog 

 earth, well mixed. I then shifted and planted it; the tirst summer it made a 

 shoot 18 inches in length, the next year a strong vigorous shoot from four to 

 six feet; in 1832 and 1833 it produced some exquisitely beautiful flowers of 

 a pale blue colour; and there are now a large number of flower-buds on it, 

 in a very forward state, from extreme mildness of the season. 



I have enclosed a specimen of moss or lichen, which is very common here, 

 and grows on almost every tree and shrub in my lawn, except the Portugal 

 and common laurel, and a few others ; also, a specimen of grass, which is 

 so abundant, as to become a troublesome weed, in our gravel walks and gar- 

 dens. AVill you have the kindness to inform me, through the medium of the 

 Floricultural Cabinet, the names of each, and if you can recommend any 

 particular method of destroying them .' W. T. 



P.S. I shall feel much obliged, if you, or any of your subscribers will in- 

 form me, through the Floricultural Cabinet, the soil, situation, &c of the 

 Magnolia glauca sempervirens. Within a few years. I have had two plant-, 

 which, with all my i are, have both died. 



[The grass is Poa annua. The mosses in our next. — Cokd.] 



Ox Compost for Cars LTI0N8. — I like ail Innovator's remarks exceedingly. 

 but I do not exactly know what he means, page ot), in his Carnation Compost, 

 by " one barrowful of finely ground unburnt sulphate of lime," to give Car- 



