QUESTIONS AND ANSWER. /> 
beautiful genus of plants. It is a native of India, and flowers frequently 
in the stove. 
2. Calceolaria Hopeana. Mr. Hope’s new Slipperwort. This is 
one of the most showy of the genus, the flowers being very large and 
numerous. The colour is yellow, without much variegation ; but the 
gracefulness of the truss, and the amplitude of the flowers, compensate 
for want of deep colours. 
3. Manettia cordifolia. Heart-shaped-leaved Manettia. A beautiful 
climber, and well worth a place in everv stove collection. It belongs 
to the natural order Rubiacece. 
4. Maxillaria Deppei. Mr. Deppe’s Maxillaria. A fine-flower¬ 
ing orcliideous plant, lately introduced, and has flowered in several 
collections. 
This number also contains the history and culture of the Sugar-Cane. 
Smith’s Florists’ Magazine, for January, contains— 
The Elizabeth and Homer Tulips 3 Young’s Earl Grey and Lancaster 
Lass Carnations; Phlox Drummondii; Perfection Pelargonium ; and 
the Rhodochiton volubile. They are all beautifully drawn and coloured, 
and, as usual, accompanied with very valuable remarks as to their 
history and culture. 
To the Editor of the Horticultural Register. 
QUESTIONS AND ANSWER. 
Sir,—-I ought to apologise for troubling you with my letter and 
queries; but as I dare say that you have other subscribers who are as 
ignorant as myself, and as your good-nature must be in frequent requi¬ 
sition, I venture to apply to you, trusting that you will, either by letter, 
or through your Register, give me the information that I ask. 
The garden which I have just come into possession of contains about 
fifty yards of glass, divided into three houses. The vines have been 
planted above thirty years ; during the last twenty they have had no 
other attention than common pruning. W ha we wish to know is, 
whether an addition of compost will be sufficient, without having 
entirely new plants. And if you w^ould give me a few hints how a 
piece of ground, (fifty-four yards by twenty-four,) surrounded by a 
wall, can be made a pretty pleasure-garden of, I shall be more than 
obliged to you. 
Perhaps you would also make known to me how I may propagate the 
white Banksia Rose, as I do not find the usual cuttings to succeed with 
that variety. 
