164 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



On Fuchsias. — You would very much oblige an ardent amateur and sub- 

 scriber to your Cabinet, if you would give a list of all the Fuchsias known 

 and cultivated in this country, in your July Number. The favour would 

 be much enhanced by your adding the modes required for their propagation, 

 and the places where they are to be procured. Do nurserymen object to 

 sell cuttings of Fuchsias and other plants ! Convolvulus Major. 



King's Iioad, Chelsea, June 11 /ft, 1S34. 



[An Article will be given next month on the Fuchsia, &c. The request 

 came to hand too late for the present Number. — Cond.] 



On Greenhouse Plants, &c. — I am exceedingly pleased with your 

 publication, and only hope you will meet with that encouragement from every 

 lover of flowers which you so richly deserve. The plan by which you review 

 the periodicals particularly pleases me. There is, however, one work on 

 florist flowers by Robert Sweet which you have never noticed : I fear, 

 therefore, the publication of it has been discontinued. [It has. — Cond. J 

 Your lists, also, of choice flowers were very valuable, particularly so to sub- 

 scribers who, like myself, live at a great distance from London, and have no 

 chance of seeing new flowers in bloom. You must give us a few more such 

 selection in the second volume of your work ; and as my garden (like many 

 of your friends in this neighbourhood) is small, a cross or star to denote the. 

 finest of the fine would be very desirable. I should be glad, for instance, 

 if some experienced person would give a list of twelve of the best hardy 

 Ericas; twelve of the best greenhouse Ericas; twelve or more choice herba- 

 ceous plants that might easily be procured ; and, above all, a collection of 

 hardy greenhouse plants that would flower successively the whole year. 

 Mine is a very small greenhouse, only fifteen feet long by nine feet wide ; 

 and as I am about to remove it soon, I wish to know whether a high or low 

 greenhouse is the best for plants, and whether I must exclude vines entirely 

 if I wish to excel in flowers. lam very much surprised that Borne of the 

 London nurserymen do not give catalogues of their plants in your publica- 

 tion — not like. Young's Calceolarias, without prices affixed; bat similar to 

 the Dahlia catalogues, so many of which you have, advertised. I am well 

 persuaded they would find it answer, and that they would considerably in 

 crease the sale of their plants. * 



Bodmin, May 2, 1834. 



ANSWERS. 



On Epacris grandiflora, &c. — In reading over the March Number of 

 the Fluricultvral Cabinet for 1834,1 see, under the head "Queries," a corres- 

 pondent wishes for information on the following genus of plants ; if my mite 

 of knowledge will be of any service to him, or any one similarly situated, and 

 you consider it worth occupying a space in your amusing Magazine, you 

 are at liberty to publish it in any shape you please. 



JZpacris grandi/lora, propagation of, from January to March. — 1st. Take a 

 clean 48-sized pot, put a large crock in the bottom, then add a quantity of 

 small crocks, or coarse cinders, until the pot is half full; upon this put a 

 layer of moss beat down firm, fill up with fine sifted peat mould, and white 

 silver sand; an equal quantity mixed together, pressing it down firm to within 

 a quarter of an inch of the rim of the pot ; fill up with clean sifted silver 

 sand, passing a stick over the pot to make the surface level ; give a slight 

 watering with a fine rose pot or syringe ; take a bell glass, press it lightly on 

 the sand so as to leave the circumference; then select your cuttings from 

 last year's ripened wood, cut the tops of the shoots about one inch long, strip 

 the cutting half its length of leaves, lay it on your thumb nail, with a sharp 

 knife cut the base at a joint quite smooth, and when a sufficient quantity to 

 fill the pot is prepared, insert the cuttings as far as stripped, keeping the 

 tallest, if any, in the centre; give a good watering to settle the sand about 

 them; let them stand until dry; cover with the bell glass, and plunge the 

 pot in a cold frame facing north; keep the light on, protecting from frost 

 with covering, or, for want of a frame, place the pot on a north shelf in the 

 greenhouse, but by no means in the sun ; wipe the glass once a day ; water 



