96 Queries. 



cated at Newington, where he carried on the same business as his father 

 for some years ; but having acquired a taste for botany and drawing, he gra- 

 dually turned his market garden into a nursery for trees. This piece of 

 ground was at first of three or four acres of extent, but he gave up, for brick 

 making and building, one part of it after another, till at last he reduced it 

 to little more than half an acre. In this small space he cultivated an ex- 

 tensive collection of curious plants, particularly Alpines and Succulents. 

 He raised one or two new species of Mesembryanthemum from Cape 

 seeds, and several Camellias, some of which have not flowered; and for 

 one, known as Ross's Seedling, he received a medal from the Horticultural 

 Societ}'. He was one of the few cultivators who succeeded in ripening 

 seeds, and raising seedling plants from the Strelitzia Regina?, which he did 

 to a considerable extent. 



The taste of Mr. Ross for small ponds and artificial rock-work was at 

 one time such, that he got apparatus for boring for water, and intended to 

 turn his skill in this way to account, by finding a supply for any one who 

 might employ him. He was frequently applied to to fit up little jets-d'eau, 

 and ornament them with shells, flints, and rock-work, and various specimens 

 of his skill in this way may be seen in the flower-gardens about Stoke- 

 Newington. A sudden illness, however, put a stop to his progress as a 

 well-sinker j but he lived several years afterwards to enjoy his garden, and 

 the comfort and solace of two well-educated daughters, fond of the same 

 pursuits as himself. He had lost his wife several years before, and night 

 fell upon himself in his 62d year, on the 14th day of November last. He 

 was buried in the church yard of the parish, where a stone is erected to 

 his memory. 



Art. V. Queries. 



A correspondent wishes to know the best mode of bagging grapes ; and 

 one who styles himself a " Constant Reader," (inadvertently we presume,) 

 asks how he may best grow and bloom the yellow rose. We may observe 

 here, that it is not our intention, as guardians of the six printed sheets 

 which we mean quarterly to issue to the public, to insert letters of queries 

 at length, but only to give their substance, and also the substance of" their 

 answers. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



The account of the conservatory at the Grange is necessarily postponed 

 till next number, owing to Mr. Sylvester's dilatoriness in sending us the 

 description of his mode of heating that conservatory, which, though pro- 

 mised by the 1st of December, is not yet (26th) received. 



Professor La Gasca's' paper on the Gardening of Spain, that of Mr. Mack- 

 intosh on a New Verge Cutter, and of Mr. Duff on the Cranberry, shall 

 appear in our next. 



Communications to be addressed to the Conductor, Bayswater, London; 

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