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bulky for his purpose, we would recommend a small work, by a scientific 

 house-painter, Mr. Hay of Edinburgh, entitled The Laws of Harmonious 

 Colouring, §c, by D. R. Hay. If our correspondent possesses our Encyclopedia 

 pf Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, or even Part xn. of that work, he 

 will there find (§ 2013.) how highly we think of Mr. Hay's Essay ; and he will 

 be able to conceive in what way it will be useful to him in the arrangement 

 of his flowers. — Cond. 



Jasidne perennis, Housionia ccerulea, Gentiana verna, and other Species. — I 

 should feel greatly obliged, if Mr. Penny, or any other of your numerous 

 correspondents, who have been in the habit of growing these plants, would 

 inform me of the best mode of cultivating them ; both in pots and in the free 

 ground ; the best soil and situation for them, and any other particulars 

 respecting their culture, that may have come under their notice or observ- 

 ation. I have frequently bought these plants of the London nurserymen, but 

 in every instance they have very soon dwindled away and died. I have been 

 told that a portion of coal-ashes is beneficial to the growth of Jasione perennis : 

 is this correct ? An early answer to these questions will oblige a constant 

 subscriber to both of your Magazines since their commencement, and an 

 ardent lover of the beauties of Flora. — R. T. Jan. 1. 1834. 



Tree Mignonette. — In IX. 232. Mr. Elles states that the common migno- 

 nette may be grown to any height required, or at least to any reasonable 

 height. He says, " We have it here from 4 to 10 ft. high." He furthermore 

 goes on to state that he has one plant about 8 ft, in circumference at the base, 

 &c. Now, I should feel greatly obliged to Mr. Elles, if he would take an early 

 opportunity of informing me, as well as some others of the readers of this 

 Magazine, of the method he pursues to obtain plants of i?eseda odorata 

 frutescens, so decidedly superior to any plants of the kind that I have ever 

 seen or heard of before. The plants I have grown have not averaged more 

 than 3 ft. or 3| ft. — Id. [See Elliot's mode of culture, IX. 702.] 



Tree Mignonette. — Mr. Elles of Armagh writes (IX. 232.) that he had a 

 plant of mignonette 10 ft. high and 8 ft. in circumference at its base. I should be 

 glad to learn Mr. Elles's mode of rearing the little darling to such perfection. 

 Assuredly he has nursed the pygmy reseda into O'Mignon, the celebrated Irish 

 giant. — T. A. B. Easihwaite Lodge, Lancashire, Dec. 24. 1833. 



Grafting and Budding of Roses. — I am informed, upon respectable authority, 

 that roses will not succeed by grafting them in the common way, but will take 

 freely by rind-grattmg. The scallop or French mode of budding has also 

 been found to succeed well in spring. — R. T. Jan. 1. 1834. 



[The writer next makes some requests, and states some things as facts, 

 which he ought to be aware can only receive attention from an Editor when 

 accompanied by the writer's name and address. In the mean time, he may 

 refer to the new edition of our Encyc. of Gard., now publishing.] 



Gordonia pubescevs and Lasianthus, Malachodendron ovdtum, and Big- 

 nonia capreoldta. — The most suitable culture for these plants is desired, as 

 it regards soil, situation, propagation, &c. I have frequently bought the 

 first three species mentioned, and as often lost them. Is peat soil indis- 

 pensably necessary for their cultivation, or are they more tender than other 

 common hardy shrubs, so that they require some kind of protection in 

 winter ? As far as Bignonfa capreolata is concerned, I have no trouble in 

 keeping or growing it; but, although I have had three plants for these ten 

 years, I have never succeeded in flowering them. One Bigndnza has been 

 constantly kept in the stove in a pot, one in the green-house in a pot, and one 

 planted outside of the green-house, and brought inside, and trained up the 

 rafters ; yet, with all chis, I have never once flowered it during the whole of 

 the above period. — Id. 



Chrysanthemum sinense and indicum. — I possess 40 varieties of these de- 

 lightful autumnal flowers, 38 of which I never fail to blow every year ; but 

 although I have had the yellow warratah, and the yellow Indian chrysanthe- 

 mum, for some years, I have never once induced either of these to flower 



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