446 Queries and Answers to Queries. 



of two fourths mellow loam, one fourth leaf mould, and one fourth sand, 

 coarsely sifted. Keep the pots nearly close to the glass, give plenty of air 

 in open weather, and keep off all excessive wet. Give the frame a good 

 elevation behind, mat up closely in frosty nights, and thin the plants to 

 about 6 in. or 7 in., plant from plant, pinching off the centre shoots from 

 the plants of the two latter sowings. — Id. 



Pindars (p. 151.) is the name commonly given in the West Indies, and 

 especially in Barbadoes, to the ground nuts, or seeds, of the ^'rachis hypo- 

 gei'a. — Id. July 8. 



Polyanthuses and Pinks. — My present avocations have engrossed my 

 attention for so many years, that my favourite pursuit had lain dormant 

 until your Magazine awakened it ; and I wish to amuse my latter days, 

 with that greatest solace, next to religion, a flower-garden. For this pur- 

 pose, I wish to go to the best and cheapest gardeners. At present, I shall 

 confine myself to polyanthuses and pinks, and superior kinds of all the 

 newest but beautiful kinds of herbaceous plants ; for I am so little at home, 

 that I dare not venture on auriculas or carnations at present ; but I should 

 be anxious to procure all the double and semi-double dahlias, and Chinese 

 chrysanthemums. If you could spare a moment to instruct me where I am 

 most likely to get the kinds I have mentioned, on the most reasonable 

 terms, I shall feel highly obliged. I am aware that those high in the fancy 

 ask high prices, especially for new kinds, but I wish for the oXAfine kinds 

 that would bear seed, and I shall soon improve on them ; for I was once 

 very high in the fancy, and I should expect to be treated as one of the trade. 

 Dear Sir, yours, &c. — Hely Dutton. Ballinasloe, June 26. 1828. 



We can recommend our correspondent to any of the principal towns of 

 Lancashire for polyanthuses, to Paisley for pinks, and to the Glasgow bota- 

 nic garden for the other articles. We hope some of our readers at these 

 places will enter into correspondence with Mr. Dutton. — Cond. 



The proper soil, mode of culture, situation, mode of propagation, &c., of 

 the following plants, I am much in want of: — Nuttallia digitata; Z/ilium 

 camtschatcense (Fritillaria lanceolata of Pursh), and pumilum Bot. Reg., 

 p. 132.; Tidipa tricolor Siveefs Hortus Britdnnicus, ?inA. Cehiana Bot. Mag. 

 p. 717. {Tiilipa pdrsica of Dutch nurserymen). 



The following plants I am desirous of purchasing: — illium pudicum 

 Pursh. (Fritillaria pudica S2:)renge^s Sy sterna), andinum Sweet's H.B., cro- 

 ceum Ijink's Enum. Plant., latifolium Link's Enimi. Plant., and glabrum 

 Siveefs H. B. ; Tiilipa biflora Bot. Register, p. 535., altaica, and prae^cox 

 Sweet's Br. Fl. Garden, p. 157.; Colchicum byzantinum Bot, Mag., arena- 

 rium Sprengel's Syst., and versicolor Bot. Register; Muscari pallens Sw. 

 Br. Fl. Garden, p. 259., and ciliatum Bot. Register; Puschkinia ^cilloides 

 Bot. Mag.; Scilla esculenta alba Bot. Mag.; Sternbergia colchiciflora, 

 and Clasiana; Primula glaucescens Sweet's Brit. Fl. Gai-den, p. 254. ; /Vis 

 caucasica, and lusitanica. [In the Epsom nursery. — Cond.] — David Falconar. 

 Carlawrie, July 8. 1828. 



Tiilipa Sibthoi'piana. — There is a species of tulip described in the Pi-o- 

 dromiis Florce Grce^cce by Sir James Smith, Tidipa SibthorpzoHa, first found 

 by Dr. Sibthorp, near Porto Cavalieri in Asia Minor, and afterwards on the 

 low rocky mountain Navarin. Can you inform me if this plant has been 

 introduced into this country, and where bulbs of it are to be purchased? — 

 David Falconar. Carlowrie, near Edinburgh, July 28. 1828. [It is not in 

 the Hortus Epsomensis, and therefore must be very scarce. — Co}id.] 



Double Cowslip. — I beg to enquire whether you, or any of your corre- 

 spondents, are acquainted with the double cowslip (Primula veris). I do not 

 mean a cowslip with a two-fold corolla, hose in hose, as it is termed, but 

 with a strictly double blossom, like a rose flore pleno. If it is still culti- 

 vated in our gardens, it is certainly very rare. Some years ago, I knew an 

 old nurseryman near Birmingham, a great lover of plants, who laad been all 



