732 Queries and Afistvers. 



peared to me most extravagant. I applied to Mr. Miller of Bristol, whose 

 collection was very small, but consisted of the same species which were 

 named in the former list : his prices were 1*. and Is. (jd. per plant. Hor- 

 ticulture is now so much encouraged that nurserymen and florists would 

 consult their own interests by keeping down their prices as much as pos- 

 sible, and thereby very much extending their market to a large class of 

 customers, who are become re infccta, but are afraid to enter upon that 

 which really ought, at the present time, to be a cheap gratification. Yours, 

 &c. — C. Lawrence. Cirencester, March 12. 1829. 



Groivih of Broccoli, Sea-kale, and Celery. — I wish some of your corre- 

 spondents, who have been particularly successful in the management and 

 growth of broccoli, sea-kale, and celery, would furnish the details of their 

 operations through your Magazine; the value and utility of which would, 

 I think, be enhanced by a more liberal supply of practical directions from 

 those who have chanced to be successful in raising productions in common 

 domestic use. — Id. 



Plan for watering Cucumber Hills. — Sir, My plan is nothing more than 

 a watering-pot pipe with a funnel at the top, I have a stick to fit in easy, 

 and thrust both down to the dung in any part oi the bed, then withdraw 

 the stick and pour in water. Would it not be to the interest of the nur- 

 seryman and horticulturist, to try the plan on the orange, camellia, &c., in 

 pots, the soil of which is often moist above but dry below. — J. HaythoriL 

 Wollaton, Jan. 7. 1829. ',' 



Characters of the principal Gooseberries. — Your correspondent wfip 

 favoured us, in your Number for December 1828, with some I'emarks oh 

 gooseberries, would confer a general benefit on your readers in the West 

 of England, who are little informed on this subject, if he would enable you 

 to publish an enumeration of the characters of the principal kinds, distin- 

 guishing those which are conspicuous for earliness, lateness, high flavour, 

 copious bearing, sweetness, acidity, beauty, fitness to be gathered in an 

 early stage of growth, size of the plant, rapid growth and strength of the 

 plant, fitness for preserving, beauty of the fruit, favourite soil and aspect, 

 and any other remarkable or useful qualities which any of the varieties 

 may possess. I am. Sir, &c. — Caiisidiciis. Jan. 18. 1829. 



Pots ivithout Apertures to prevent the Escape of Water. — Mr. Knight 

 states in a paper in Vol. VII. Part II. of Hort. Trans., " Whenever I have 

 adopted the practice of plunging the pots into the ground, or into the soil 

 of a larger pit, I have almost invariably used pots without any apertures, 

 to prevent the escape of water and of the I'oots. Gardeners are generally 

 very strongly prejudiced against pots of this construction j but, whenever 

 plants are kept constantly under glass, I have found that they may be used 

 with advantage ; and by properly covering the mould with tiles, I have not 

 found any difficulty in preventing during summer, the ingress of too 

 much water, when the pots have been placed in the open air." I should 

 be glad to know if any of your readers have adopted or tried this very sin- 

 gular practice of Mr. Knight, and what has been their success? Had it 

 been recommended by any other man than the President of the Horticul-, 

 tural Society, I should have considered the writer of unsound mind, or a' 

 a rogue wishing to entrap some one into the death of a nuniber of plants. 

 ' — A Common Gardener. Feb. 6. 1829. 



The Tottenham Park Muscat Grape. — Sir, If anj' of your readers, who 

 may have what is called the Tottenham Park Muscat vine, and have 

 fruited it, will give their opinion whether it is a new variety of the White 

 Mnscat of Alexandria, or whether it is not owing to the particular situa- 

 tion it is planted in at Tottenham Park, it will be no doubt satisfactory to 

 others as well as to myself. 



I understand it is planted within the hot-house at Tottenham Pii A", by 

 the back flue, which may cause it to ripen its fruit better than those 



