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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



On the Garden Anemone. — Does not Innovator, in his article on 

 the culture of the Garden Anemone (Anemone Hortensis), mean Anemone 

 coronaria plena, Hortensis or stellata being the Star Anemone J 



Pt. Ry., Hastings. A Subscriber. 



On a List of the best Pansies. — Will you, or any of your numerous 

 correspondents, give me a list of about a dczsn of the very best Heartsease '. 

 I mean such as have good properties, and generally take the first prizes at 

 Horticultural and Floral Societies' Meetings. I shall be much obliged by 

 an early answer, as I wish to purchase a few immediately, so as to have 

 them in flower the latter end of autumn. Herb Trinity/. 



JtUy 11 th, 1834. 



On the Ranunculus. — I have attempted to grow the Ranunculus these 

 last two years, but have been unsuccessful. I observe that most of your 

 Correspondents who have written on the cultivation of that Flower, advise 

 water to be given between the rows, and not to wet the foliage ; which rule 

 I have followed ; but one says he has frequently observed that a cool and 

 showery May has been very conducive to the growth of the plants, and has 

 ensured a fine bloom in June. On some former occasions I have admired 

 the calm reasoning of your Correspondent G. I. T. ; now I should take it as 

 a particular favour if lie would have the goodness to explain, phy si ologically, 

 what effect water has on the leaves of that plant, 



July 9th, 1834. A Countryman. 



On a List of Hardy Border Flowers. — You would very materially 

 serve your inexperienced subscribers to the Floricultural Cabinet, by giving 

 them, in one of your early Numbers, a list of hardy border flowers, annual 

 and perennial; dividing them into four classes as to colour, three as to 

 height, and six as to their time of flowering, I annex, by way of explana- 

 tion, an attempt at the sort of thing required, which, however, your experi- 

 ence will no doubt enable you to improve upon. 



Perennials flowering in February and March. 



Annuals flowering in February and March — same as above : 

 And so in like manner those flowering in April and May — June — July — 

 August — September and October. 



Mr. J. Price, who furnished your Work with a very intelligible Article 

 on soils, was so good as to promise us further observations on the subject. 

 If his time would allow of it, he would much increase the former obligation 

 bv resuming the subject. 

 ; If Amicus has not yet satisfied himself with a yellow trailing plant, per- 

 haps the LysimachiaNummularia would answer his purpose, or else a yellow 

 Pansy. 



Could you favour your subscribers with a list of the most hardy and showy 

 Cape bulbs, and the prices of them, as well as the address of the person who 

 imports them most largely, or cultivates them .' Pray also inform us whe- 

 ther the Nemophylla phaceloides is an annual or perennial. Loudon's 

 Catalogue classes it among the latter, but most seedsmen's lists call it an 

 annual. - W. W. J. 



Crkkhowcl, lilh July, 1831. 



ANSWERS. 



On Earwigs. — In answering a Correspondent's request, inserted in page 

 130, I believe the most effectual method to destroy Earwigs from any trained 

 Trees, is to place, in various parts, pieces of reeds between the branches and 



