ItlSCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 2C3 



that king of creepers, the Glycine, which will amply repay him for any 

 trouble he may be at in its cultivation ; I would plant it out of doors in good 

 soil, and bring it through the wall into the greenhouse. I think I have now 

 answered " *'s" query, I cannot in my present letter give " S. C. A." a list 

 of the best kinds of greenhouse plants for him to cultivate ; he does not state 

 how large his greenhouse is — perhaps Mr, Harrison could not find room 

 for a lung list ! The best work on the cultivation of Stove and Greenhouse 

 plants, Ericas, &e. &c. is Forres's " Hortus Wobumensis." I forgot to 

 answer "*'s" query as to whether an high or low greenhouse is the best for 

 plants. I should say alow one — particularly as he wishes to. cultivate 

 Ericas, which should be placed near the " glass, and have plenty of air and 

 water," vide FoRBES's "Hortus Wobumensis," or the extract Mr. HARRISON 

 made from it. I must now thank you for the space you have given me in 

 the pages of your Cabinet ; and again add, that I shall be happy at anv time 

 tu give any information I may be possessed of. 



August 6th, IN:? I. J, C. H. 



on Carnations. — In answer to C. W. J, I beg to inform him that he 

 quite mistook the disease in his Carnations, and, by so doing, hastened their 

 death. His plants died either from the bark having been wounded in pull 

 ingulf the decayed leaves, or from their having been taken from unsound 

 plants, ur his having neglected to shorten that part which connected the 

 layer wfth the did plant to a level with the nib from which it had made root. 

 If this were not cut oil', it decayed; and retaining a large quantity of mois- 

 ture, caused the disease tu spread upwards, till it reached the pith, where 

 the decay became general, and the loss of his plants was the consequence. 

 For this disease, when once established, I know of no cure or remedy, as it 

 dues nut show itself till after the plant, is dead. It therefore becomes us to 

 guard against the causes, such as I have before enumerated: besides these, 

 there is another trick which tiorists resort to, to cause this disease, viz., 

 running a red-hut needle up their centre; but as C. W. J. bought his of 

 respectable florists, I should say nothing of the sort had been done. I 

 would nut, for the sake of saving a i'ew shillings, be induced to save layers 

 from a plant in an unsound state, as in nine cases out of ten they inherit 

 the disease, and repay us fur ten months' care by suddenly baulking our 

 expectations. .Many tiorists top-dress their plant's in June ; others water 

 them with a solution of nitre: — to all such practices I am decidedly opposed, 

 fur if proper compost were used at the outset, they would require nothing of 

 lbs surt ; and they only produce disease. I am* sorry T can give C. W. .1. 

 no hopes that lie will ever find a remedy ; and next year will be still more 

 fatal than this as I have this season seen few collections where disease did 

 nut prevail tu a great extent. Innovvtor 



Sept a</, ! 



On Flowering Heliotropes.— In the spring take the plants to the 



potting shed; turn them otfl »f the potsj reduce the old ball, cutting off all 



out; repot them Into puts suitable tu the size of the plant, in good 



loam and leaf mould; give them a little water tu settle the soil; spur in all 

 lateral shoots; |,,it them Into a stove heat or dung- bed heal ; give them air 

 nail) ; and when growing freely, supplv them with plenty of water; 

 and in the Rummer months they should stand in water, when they will flower 

 in abundance to the satisfaction of your Correspondent, Myrtella. 

 Great Bookham, Surrey, July 2d, 1834. .1. w. n. 



REFERENCE TO PLATE. 



I. lhike of St. Atbaril I'inh. Tliis (lower has, as will be seen hv the 



reral distinguishing properties, We understand then are several 



es on sale under this name j therefore, purchasers moat be on their 



Kuard in order to obtain th true rariety, of which our drawing gives u cor- 



preaentation, 



t. Delphinium chhumtil, rar. ulbi flora, I >uuble While (lowering Chinese 



Larkspur. I rj handsome Delphinium is a hybrid, raised by Mr. 



■billing, nurseryman, Nortbwarmborongh, near (Milium, Hampshire, 



