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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
ARTICLE XI.—QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
List of the best kinds of Grasses for Sowing, to form 
a Grass-Plot, Wanted P — Pray can you, or any of your Corres¬ 
pondents, tell me what are the best kinds of grass, to form a lawn ? 
I should like to sow the seeds instead of the usual way of turfing: 
Will it answer ? Turf is not convenient to get here. 
W. Sheldrake. 
Mining Insect on the Cineraria lanata ?—Can any of 
your Entomological friends inform me, what is the name of the small 
insect that mines in the leaf of the Cineraria lanata, and how it can 
he readily destroyed ? Is it an Ichneumon fly ? 
J. Howard. 
To the Author of the Domestic Gardener’s Manual.— 
In your Register for last September, Vol. 3, page 409, you were so 
good as to insert a few queries addressed to the author of the Domes¬ 
tic Gardener’s Manual, on the subject of the Housaine Melon; I 
hope that Gentleman will favour me with an answer, before the time 
for sowing the seed arrives. M. D. 
List of Ornamental Creepers Wanted? Pray would you 
favour one of your readers with a list of hardy ornamental creepers, 
or plants suited to he trained against walls, trellis, or arbours in vari¬ 
ous situations, with some remarks, as to the situations suited for each ? 
Such a list would be of importance to many. 
James Townley. 
Oxalis crenata ? If G. E. J. (see Vol. 3 p. 486) will dig up 
the plants about Christmas, he will find plenty of tubers. Even 
when he sees this notice, should any of the plants have been left, he 
would doubtless find a supply of tubers. It appears to be the habit 
of the plant to form the tubers late. Some plants, from small tubers, 
planted in the open ground in April, produced upwards of 20 tubers 
each, at the end of December. C. M. W. 
On the Germination of Seeds. —In reply to the remarks of 
“ W ,” Vol. 3, p. 423.—On perusing the observations of your Corres¬ 
pondent, “ W,” I find him labouring under as fallacious an opinion 
as he supposes the editor of the Encyclopaedia of Gardening to be, 
when he states that “ all self-sown seeds remain on the surface of the 
soil exposed, &c.” but I maintain the opinion they do not germinate 
in that situation, some of them fall into a crevice in the earth, a 
