^"34 a charade. Oct. jri 



Jirst, that I have trampled on the pride of kings, and the- 

 greatest potentates of the earth have bowed down to me y 

 yet the dirtiest kennel in the dirtiest street is not too foul 

 to have me for its inmate : in my second what an infinite 

 variety ! I am rich as the eastern monarch, yet poor as the 

 weeping object of your benevolence j I am mild and gentle 

 as the spring, yet cruel and savage as the wintry blast. I 

 dare pronounee myself from the ablest, your ladyfliip's 

 superior, though few are the instances that prove it, and 

 ten thousand arc the proofs against it. I am young, bloo- 

 ming, and beautiful j yet old, deformed, and wretched. I 

 am, — but your lady fliip is tired, or wifties my re-union,-! — 

 it is done, and my consequence is lost. And I have- 

 no merit left but that of remaining, as before, your lady- 

 fliip's very obedient servant. 



^solution of the above is requested, 



QUERIES RESPECTING FRUIT TREES. 

 Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



It would be doing me and many of your readers a parti- 

 cular favour, if you, or any of your ingenious correspon- 

 dents, would furnifh an answer to the following queries : 



What is the most effectual way of preventing young 

 fruit trees running too tnuch to wood ? What is the best 

 method of forcing (^in the natural ground,) fruit trees to 

 bear early ? 



It is a pleasant thing, Mr Editor, to reap the fruits of 

 our own labour. I wifh to do so •, and sincerely hope 

 you will those of your very useful and entertaining miscel* 

 lany. I am your 



^^^^-Ti '"'\ eoNSTANT Reader*. 



20tb July i'jg2. 3 



• The Edtter wiflies it were in his power to give satitfactory answer* 

 to those queries ; all he knows of the matter is, that some kinds of fruit 

 trees naturarly begin to Lear at a much more early period of their life 

 than othet kind* 3 ajid that whatever tends to mak« chera grow very !u{ 



