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OBITUARY. 
dy, or even a safe application whereby they may be expelled from pots ? Repot¬ 
ting in fresh soil is not always desirable, and diquid applications tried at hap 
hazard, may prove worse than the nuisances complained off. Electricus. 
Kennedia rubicunda. —A Correspondent signed Nanto, Vol. II, page 473, 
makes inquiries respecting the treatment of the Kennedia rubicunda, and in 
answer, 1 say that if seeds or cuttings are raised in a hotbed, and potted off in 
small thumb pots, in a mixture of sandy peat and loam, and when a year old or 
more, turned out against a trellis in a sunny aspect in a conservatory or green¬ 
house, watering moderately when necessary, will succeed, I have no doubt, to 
Nanto’s satisfaction. The reason of his plant not succeeding, is undoubtingly 
owing to its being kept in the stove, and the green moss growing on the surface 
of the soil is probably occasioned by over watering. It also flowers beautifully 
turned out in May against a harbour or a basket handle, inside of which if 
planted in the middle with Vieussieuxia glaucopsis, and the edges with Strepto. 
carpus rexii looks very handsome. The above mode will greatly invigorate the 
Kennedia rubicunda. Nanto in page 474, wishes for a little information re¬ 
specting the Thunbergia alata. Seeds may be sown in light rich loam, and placed 
in a hotbed, and after they appear' in second leaf, pot them in small pots in the 
above soil, still keeping them in the frame, and potting them as ofteu as they 
require it; cuttings may be taken from an old plant after it has done flowering, 
if put in a hotbed to start a few of the eyes, and when struck, treat them as re¬ 
commended for seedlings, but this should not be done till spring, unless fearful 
of losing the old one. This sort of plants is very impatient of either wet, cold, or 
drought, the runners while the plant is in flower may also be taken off and 
struck as above. Young ones will flower much more freer than old plants. If 
Nanto wishes any more queries answered, I will, with great reply do it, as far 
as my humble abilities will allow. F. F. Ashford. 
November 11,1833. 
The review of “ Hortus Woburnensis,” which we had prepared for publi¬ 
cation, is unavoidably omitted this month. 
f-J-f Nematus Capreae is the name of the insect to which allusion is made in 
the note at page 61.. It was omitted at its proper place, the manuscript being 
defective. 
II.—OBITUARY. 
From a Correspondent— November 14th, died at his house, at Brentford, Mr. Hugh 
Ronalds, aged 74. Mr. Ronalds and his father, had, for the greatest part of a century, been 
amongst the most distinguished, as well as the oldest and most extensive Nurserymen in the 
neighbourhood of London, and had by great diligence and skill acquired a very large and tine 
collection of plants in every department, of the choicest fruit and forest trees, as well as of the 
most ornamental plants. 
Mr. Hugh Ronalds, whose death we are now sorry to have to record, had a very extensive 
knowledge of the different branches of science connected with Horticulture; to which he 
added an acute and accurate judgment, with great skill and extensive practical knowledge 
of that art; and he was no less distinguished by the uprightness and probity of his dealings. 
His superb work on apples, gives the best account of the most useful varieties of the most valuable 
fruit which our climate produces, and, illustrated as it is by such admirable figures, will long 
continue amongst the standard works on Horticulture. In all the various relations of private 
life, his conduct was truely kind and exemplary. This imperfect tribute to his merit pro¬ 
ceeds from a friend, who, for fifty years has known his worth. .1. T. 
