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PART III. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
I.—QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
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What Pit is best adapted for preserving Geraniums, &c. during 
Winter ?—Having derived several most useful hints from the questions and re¬ 
marks in your magazine, I am induced to enquire what sort of pit is best adapt¬ 
ed for preserving Geraniums, Verhenums, Salvias, Petunias, &c. &c. during the 
winter. I should wish the pit to answer for growing melons in summer, and 
know not whether M’Phail’s plan, or a common cold frame in winter, which may 
be filled with stable dung in summer, will be most desirable. Flos- 
When is the proper time to remove Laurels, &c. ?— A correspondent 
in the last number of the Horticultural Register has kindly made known the 
proper season for transporting the Holly (Ilex aquifolium), and it would be 
equally useful and acceptable to several of your readers, to be informed of the 
proper time for removing the common broad-leaved laurel, the Portugal laurel, 
and the Laurustinus. A Subscriber. 
The Wood Cut which we were compelled to leave out last month, we now 
give below. The explanatory matter will be found at pages 427 to 430, in the 
September number. 
What is the mode of cultivating the Kennedia rubicunda and 
Thunburgia alata ?—If any of your numerous correspondents could furnish 
a few particulars relative to the culture of the Kennedea rubicunda, it would be 
a great advantage. The plant in question has been kept in a hot-house ever 
since it was raised from seed, in the spring of 1832; it has been very sickly and 
been always covered with moss on the surface of the pot, within a short space 
after it has been newly planted ; it has produced a single flower twice during the 
past few months, and has ripened one seed. The owner of the plant wishes to 
know what soil it requires, if much water, whether a sunny or shady situation,— 
if able to bear the open ground in the summer, or likely to be invigorated by 
such a mode of treatment, and whether there is any better way of propagating 
it than by sowing seed in a hot-bed in the spring. 
