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Queries and Answers to Qiieries. 



directed, (aslant, and buried all but one eye,) most of them on a new-made 

 sandy bank, some in a moist meadow ; three or four dozen in all. Not one 

 succeeded. Another gentleman in the neig'ibourhood had some of the 

 same, and succeeded with two or three out of a great number. In the 

 meantime, I planted in the same sandy bank some cuttings taken by myself 

 from the very same trees; they were shoots rather slenderer than the 

 others, and from 4 to C ft. long; I trimmed off the chief side twigs, but did 

 not shorten the cuttings at all ; I put them in upright, about 15 in. deep; 

 there were about a score of them; not one failed; it it is just three years 

 ago, and their growth has been surprising. It was a mere random experi- 

 ment, nor can I tell what to make of it ; perhaps some of your corre- 

 spondents can. I ain, Sir, &c. — Suffolciensis. March 7. 1828. 



Morton! s Revolving Brake Harrow, in reply to B. D., who complains that 

 this implement is not figured in the Encyclo'pcedia of Agriculture. The truth 

 is, it was hardly known at the time the first three parts of that work were 

 printed. — It is a powerful and ingenious implement (^g. 65.),' though 



too expensive, we fear, to be much used. It is manufactured by the 

 Messrs. Mortons, in Leith Walk, and may be had froiri them, or Weir of 

 Oxford Street, London. When the implement is to be moved from one 

 field to another, the large wheels may be brought forward {a), to support 

 the tines from the ground, while the hind axle and the rake are supported 

 by a castor or truck-wheel (5). In most soils, four horses and a driver and 

 holder, are necessary to work this instrument ; which, however, no good 

 farmer will ever require the aid of, unless it be when entering on land 

 which has been allowed to run wild. 



Best Kind of Pine for general Culture. — Sir, I have to remark, in answer 

 to C. F. W. (p. 64.), that the New Providence is to the Black Jamaica what 

 the Large netted Romana melon is to the Green Egyptian melon. Neither 

 the Providence pine nor the Large netted melon have a shadow of chance to 

 compete with the other two in any thing but size ; besides, if two suckers 

 of one of each of the above pines were planted at any stated time, in six 

 years the fruit produced from the Jamaica pine and its offspring will exceed 

 in weight the fruit produced from the Providence pine and its progeny. The 

 Jamaica pine makes suckers more freely, and bears fruit at an early age with 

 more certainty than the New Providence ; the latter, hke the Queen, is 



