186 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 





QUERIES. 



On Destroying the Aphis. — What is the most simple and ready 

 method of destroying the Aphis, or green insect which infests Roses, Car- 

 nations, Auriculas, &c. .' 



Will Innovator be so kind as to inform us the size (in inches) of the 

 pot he uses for flowering a single Carnation plant? In his Article on the 

 Carnation, he says a " sixteen," which, according to the standard given at 

 page 44 (Vol. II.), is six inches; and in correcting it in the June Number, 

 he says the pots should be " four to the cast," which would be a pot 12 in. 

 diameter, — leading us, I fear, still further into error; unless, indeed, he 

 means that a 12 in. pot is the size for three plants. C. N. 



Truro. 



On a List of Phloxes, &c. &c. — I should feel exceedingly obliged if 

 you, or any of the correspondents to your very useful Magazine, would give 

 me a list of from one to three dozen hardy Phloxes, to be placed in the Same 

 border, the low-growing ones being mentioned, that they may be planted in 

 the front, — so as to have a succession of bloom, that the border may be gay 

 throughout the summer. If not quite hardy, is there any way of'protectjdg 

 Phloxes in the, ground, as I have neither pit nor greenhouse ? Also, the 

 best way of propagating Phloxes of all species. Is there any way of de 

 stroying the blight in Rose bushes? I went to some expense last year in 

 procuring some fine sorts of Roses, and am afraid I shall not have a single 

 perfect flower. If it would be considered useful, I have a never-bailing 

 recipe for making the Yellow Rose tree blow perfectly, which I would send 

 to your Magazine if desired.* I have no doubt it would succeed with other 

 Rose trees ; hut in the first place, it would he too troublesome for any thing 

 less precious than a Yellow Rose, and in the second it would not do for 

 bushes. — Do you know the Lobelia purpurea ? I do not mean the common 

 purple Lobelia, but a new sort that I raised from seed last year, sent from 

 the Horticultural Society. If you do, can you tell what I should do with 

 them during the winter? They are now in a border for bloom. — I have the 

 splendid new Gladiolus; it appears healthy, and the foliage line (though 

 raised in a room at the open window) : but it has as yet no appearance of 

 bloom. What should I do with it? — I am quite ashamed of being so trou- 

 blesome with questions, but I hope the answers will be acceptable to others 

 as well as myself. — I have seen a double white Hepatica, but only in a pri- 

 vate garden : I could not obtain a plant even for myself. — I delight in your 

 Magazine, more especially now that your correspondents appear more peace- 

 ably inclined. Hitherto I have been afraid to write a line, or to venture an 

 opinion, for fear of getting into a "scrape." Now I shall be happy to con- 

 tribute what little experience I have had. My garden, though only a young 

 lady's one, is allowed even by my rivals to he very blooming, considering 

 the disadvantages I labour under from want of sun, and exposure to north- 

 east and westerly winds. It is said that all gardeners are conceited — so ho« 

 I have shown the cloven foot, I will leave off. Fanny En yam. 



June 5th, 1834. 



P.S. I can never obtain a bloom of those delightful flowers the Lily of the 

 Valley, notwithstanding my shady situation. Can you tell me the reason? 



On the Dark China Rose. — I wish some of the readers of the Cdbinrt 

 would have the goodness to inform me what soil will suit, and make flower 

 \nprofmion, the Dark China Rose : also, whether there are two or more rarie 

 ties of it; and if .so, which would be the kind most likely to answer, so -.<- 



• We shall he much obliged by it.— Cond. 



