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Queries and Ansivers to Queries. 



or never be necessary ; watering, perhaps, occasionally. Experience must be 



the guide. 



An answer to these enquiries will oblige your constant reader, &c, — 

 Joseph Jf'iiiter. October 29. 1828. 



Touching the Growth of Vines luhcn trained down from the Rafters. 

 (p 257.) — I wish to know whether the vines are never, in such case, per- 

 mitted to bear on the rafters, but are merely pillared, as it were, thus 

 {fig. 23.), in the house. If the rafters are suffered to carry fruit, as well as 



the descending branches, light sufficient could not be got, unless the rafters 

 were sufficiently distant from one another, viz. 5 ft. perhaps, to admit of the 

 sun in the intervals. Perhaps your correspondent could throw some farther 

 light on the subject, — C. M. Norfolk, Aug. 1828. 



Stopjnng Cucumber and Alelon Plants in early forcing. — Sir, In looking 

 over the extracts which you have given from the Transactions of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of London, I find one of them, by Dr. Van ?4ons, on bud- 

 ding and grafting roses, which you have illustrated by excellent and accurate 

 wood-cuts in a manner extremely creditable to your very useful Magazine; 

 indeed, the operations are rendered thereby so plain, that the most unprac- 

 tised amateur may perform them without difficulty. This has suggested 

 to me an idea, that, by similar means, instructions might be very plainl}' 

 and easily conveyed to amateur gardeners respecting the proper method of 

 stopping cucumber and melon plants in early forcing ; foi although this 

 process, as well as the method of inserting a bud or fixing a graft, is known 

 to e\ery professional gardener, yet many gentlemen, who take pleasure in 

 attending personally to their framing, are wholly unacquainted with tiie 

 true principle of stopping their plants. They are told, indeed, in gardening 

 books, to pinch off the ends of the runners at a certain point, which they 

 do : but, beyond this, they know nothing ; and consequently their expect- 

 ations frequently, and indeed generally, end in disappointment. If, there- 

 fore, some one of your numerous scientific correspondents would favour 

 your less informed readers with a plain statement, accompanied by figures, 

 upon the principle of those so judiciously added to Dr. Van Mons's paper, 

 of the method of stopping cucumber and melon plants, particularly the 

 latter, so as to insure a croj), with some general instructions as to the proper 

 mode of managing them, so far as relates to heat, watering, &c., I am of 

 opinion it would not only be very favourably received, but would confer 

 considerable obligation on, and convey much useful information to, many 

 of your subscribers, who at present stand greatly in need of such instruc- 

 tions ; of the truth of which I have ocular and daily demonstration. I 

 remain. Sir, yours, very truly, — Mentor, June 21. 1827. 



The Stock Gilliflower, Cheirunthus incanus. — Sir, Can you, or any of 

 your correspondents, inform me of the best method of cultivating the 

 Cheiranthus incanus, the stock gilliflower, so as to procure double flowers, 



