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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
A Subscriber, Forest Hill, will find some remarks on the general treat¬ 
ment of Gesnerias in our last; the management of G. zebrina differs only in 
continuing the period of activity through the winter, the plant being natu¬ 
rally a late flowerer. We imagine your plant to be in too cold a temperature 
_this would cause the buds to fall off. Place it in a heat of from 55° to 
65°, and you will soon have a fine display of flowers. Erythrina Crista-palli 
is an accommodating plant, it may be grown either in a stove, a common 
greenhouse, or even in the open air. Like the Gesnerias, it should have a 
season of rest, which may commence now. Keep the plant quite dry until 
the middle of next March, then repot it; and if you wish for early flowers, 
place it in heat to start; but if you are content to wait until the natural 
season, the plant will grow stronger, and the flowers have a deeper colour, if 
kept in the greenhouse, with such treatment as is usual for plants in the same 
situation. Planted in the open ground, it merely requires to be cut down in 
the winter, and a little rubbish thrown over the crown, to defend it from 
severe frosts; and it then produces strong stems and dense spikes of flowers 
throughout the autumn. We have before expressed our opinion of the un¬ 
fitness of guano for plants in pots; to others growing in the borders of the 
garden it is better to apply in a liquid state, but even then it is uncertain 
in its effects. 
T. Bartv, Esq. — Unfortunately the specimens sent both of insects and 
flowers were completely dried up when we received them, so much so that we 
could distinguish nothing but a few particles of earth in the quill. A little 
damp moss in a tin box is the best preservative for flowers, and would pro¬ 
bably have retained some moisture about the insects. 
M. J.—The following are twelve good Ranunculuses, the prices of which 
we cannot give. Your other request is answered in an article on oranges, 
p. 227. 
Magellan. 
Spheroid. 
Leonidas. 
Laura. 
Major Laing. 
Boz. 
Talisman. 
Sir James Graham. 
Brilliant. 
Saai. 
Mona. 
Flora M‘Ivor. 
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Plant Stove. What plants require now, and for some time 
forward, might be compressed into two words—healthy repose. 
Comparative dryness both in the atmosphere and the soil, and 
a low temperature by day, will secure repose ; and a still lower 
degree of heat at night, the removal of dead leaves, and of any 
decaying matters, and fresh air admitted in small portions, so 
as not to produce a chill in the plants, will go far to preserve 
every thing in a healthy state. A temperature of 60 or 65 
