720 Queries and Answers. 



and varieties ; but it would be filling your pages to no purpose, if not 

 attended with better success than accrued from the last. 



If Mr. Oliver will oblige me with seeds of his h3brid (Vol. IV. p. 514.), 

 I will commission a friend in Newbury to call on him for them. I shall also 

 feel much obliged if he will have the goodness to state whether he remarked 

 any change produced in the foliage ; for in all the strange accounts I have 

 heard of melons being impregnated with gourds, I could never learn that the 

 foliage of the ofFspiing was at all aiFected, which, of course, would be a 

 natural consequence. I have only to add that Mr. Oliver, or, indeed, any 

 horticulturist who may be desirous thereof, shall be heartily welcome to 

 any of my numerous collection. 



Unless Mr. Mallett can adduce some proof of the influence of the gourd 

 in the progeny obtained from his experiments (Vol. VII. p. 87.), such as 

 a variation in the foliage and seeds, &c., it must be considered, as far as it 

 regards the question in dispute, wholly nugatory, I should have been glad 

 to judge for myself, had Mr. Charlwood, as he ought to have done, sent 

 me a few of the seeds left with him for distribution. — ./. C. K. Levant 

 Lodge, Oct. 12. 1831. 



Art. VII. Queries and Answers. 



Illustrations of Landsccvpe-Gardening. — Several correspondents have 

 enquired for Part III. of this work, and also whether, as it is a losing con- 

 cern, we mean to continue it. We answer, that we shall, in the course of 

 1832, publish a third and concluding Part of the Illustrations in the present 

 folio form of that work, with titlepage, index, &c., so as to render it com- 

 plete. Previously to this, however, we shall commence a new series of 

 Illustrations in the quarto form, so as to be more portable. We shall al- 

 ways, as far as it can be done by wood-cuts, give the essence of these Illus- 

 trations, whether folio or quarto, in the Gardenei-'s Magazine, so that no 

 readers of that work need purchase the Illustrations, unless they take a par- 

 ticular interest in the subject. We mention this, because, from the nature 

 of the work, it is impossible that we can ever dei'ive any profit from it ; 

 and indeed it would be impossible for us to publish it at all, if we had not 

 a draughtsman and lithographic artist in our office, at any rate, for other 

 purposes. Part I. of the new or quarto series of Illustrations will appear 

 on Feb. 1,, and will contain our plan for the Birmingham Garden, with its 

 description. — Cond. 



On the Management of Suburban Gardens. — Sir, Excellently as your 

 Magazine is conducted, allow me to say, that, by the consideration of one 

 style or line of gardening, which at present you do not attend to, you might 

 insure the thanks of many subscribers. You are, it is true, sufficiently 

 diffuse and explanatory in 30ur directions for gardens in the country, but 

 you do not give any hints to the unhappy resident in cities, how he may 

 enjoy a few even of those favours in which the country gai'dener revels. 

 To those who are surrounded with a fine atmosphere, whose houses supply 

 them with muck, and whose pockets supply them with money to purchase 

 every whim or help, little exertion or solicitude is requisite, in com- 

 parison with that demanded of the iniiabitant of the c\ty, who would 

 make one plant grow where plant never grew before. The former person 

 has only to plunge a piece of vegetating stick into the ground ; earth, air, 

 and water come at his call, and soon this stick becomes a flowering shrub : 

 but the unhappy cockney gardener purchases a plant at a high price, he 

 gets soil, he waters, and, though he is visited now and then only by a salu- 

 brious gale, he finds his plants, just by striving, live ; his lawn looks dirty and 

 damp, and his plants throw up no healthy shoots. Of course, in situations 

 where neither air nor sun can ever come, it would be madness to endeavour 



