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to make a handsome bed in the flower garden. I had a clump planted, of 

 three dozen plants, and although this is the second season from planting, 

 they make no growth, or show. Our soil is flint and chalk. We have done 

 what we could to improve it. I suppose a mixture of leaf and turf with 

 stable-dung will improve any soil. .\ Grevjllo Rose lias grown to a good 

 height, but has never borne a flower. Any information calculated to be of 

 service to me on the above points, I shall be obliged by. C. S. 



On Balsams, &•<:. — In your Number for March 1833, some very valuable 

 information was given by St. Patrick, for cultivating Balsams. As he has 

 hern so successful in growing that beautiful flower, I beg to crave his advice 

 us to savinq the seed, and his opinion why I failed. Last year I had ex- 

 tremely hue DOUBLE flowers of several colours, and carefully saved the seed, 

 which I kept very dry and warm. This year, however, all are tingle, and 

 white. How is this to be accounted for! C. 



Oth Jul,,, 1834. 



T.S. Where can seed be procured which may be depended on? 



On Mr. Denver's Article on Geraniiais. — Allow me to make a few 

 ipteries and remarks, through the pages of the Floricultural Cabinet, on the. 

 third Article in the June Number, page 12!*, entitled, " On the Culture of 

 Geraniums," v\.c. Previous to June, does Mr. Denver stop the leading 

 shoot or not ? What compost does he use! Does he pot them after the 

 middle of August, and how does he treat them after that time! Does ho 

 keep them in the open air, cool frame, or greenhouse! Mr. Denver, in 

 the commencement of his paper on the subject, wishes to inform J. T. of a 

 detail of culture, which he says will answer every expectation. Now from 

 this all your subscribers would undoubtedly expect to And the whole routine 

 of culture, which lie has certainly given till the second week in August ; 

 hut after then, nothing further is said about them, which is leaving out the 

 principal part. I must say that the whole is a very imperfect communica- 

 tion, in respect to giving perfect information ; and what makes it more so is, 

 that Mr. I). has sent it in the form of an answer to J. X. — I hope Mr. D. 

 (who, by the bye, is an old acquaintance) will not ascribe the above remarks 

 to any rancorous Teeling in mc, for that is not the case; but only to solicit 

 in future more perfect observations on so agreeable a subject. 



F. F. Ash ford. 



On Compost for Florists - Flowers. — Writers on the treatment of 

 Auriculas, Carnations, Pinks, Tulips, Ranunculuses, &c. give lists of certain 

 i omposts which are to be frequently turned and stirred during the space of 

 two years, so as to become intimately mixed. Of these composts, many of 

 the ingredients must be exceedingly offensive; and unless premises be suffi- 

 i ienth capacious to appropriate a place entirely for this purpose, few persons 

 would endure so intolerable a nuisance j — therefore, those only who possess 

 roomy premises can derive benefit from the use of them. I wish to inquire, 

 amongst your numerous correspondents, if any persons have already engaged 

 in the business of compost-making, and retailing the same in a lit state for 

 immediate use : and if SO, where they an- to be found. \i none such exist, 

 then I would suggest that it might answer the purpose to commence such an 

 undertaking without delay; and if conducted faithfully according to the dif- 

 fen hi rei ipes — using the very materials and quantities recommended by the 

 several authors -I apprehend the article would meet a ready sale; for 

 doubtless most persons fond.pf /lowers would cheerfully pay a reasonable 

 Mini |" i bushel for any particular compost they might require for immediate 



H. S. 



HUl .////-., ls.il. 



Oil IN V •' u. List 01 I'm/.); PlOWEM. — In Vol. I., page Ii3, you have 



given ■ Lwl o( floweri tli.it obtained Lhe hading prizes in the year 183:2. I 

 bow yo i ii" .in to rendi i annua] a list gq tml\ useful to amateur collectors ; 

 and that I hull, in an eaih Number, have the pleasure of reading a similar 

 list for I- II. c. 



London, July kth. 1834. 



| We will attend to the Article. — Cond.J 



