318 Queries and Ans'uoers to Queries. 



are seen, I believe, above it. They feed on different kinds of grasses, young 

 plants of wheat, pinks, &c. &c., whicli they attack just above tiieir roots, 

 and perforate through and through. Redbreasts are particularly fond of 

 them. One of my sons had a tame jackdaw; he also eat them, as well as 

 grubs, and the white-coloured slugs. A tame pheasant or two, with their 

 wings shortened, might be kept in an enclosed garden ; it is said that they 

 and partridges evince much sagacity in finding them. — Thomas Hogg, 

 Florist. Pacldington, March, 1828. 



Sorts of Mulberry for tearing the SilJctvorm, in answer to J. S. (Vol. III. 

 p. 379.) — Sir, in answer to the queries which appeared in your Magazine, 

 addressed to the British, Irish, and Colonial Silk Company, I beg leave to 

 state, 1st, that the company have, through their agents abroad, obtained 

 some hundred thousand plants of the ordinary wild and grafted varieties of 

 the white mulberry usually cultivated in Italy, France, and Sicily. Besides 

 which, they have obtained grafts of the following valuable, but less common 

 varieties : — 



ikforus alba latifolia hispanica. vated by the Chinese, and have 



il^orus liicida constantinopolitana. only lately been imported into 



Jlforus constantinopolitana nana; Europe. 



very valuable from its dwarf ikforus rubra canadensis ; grows ra- 



growth. pidly to a large size. 



ikforus tartarica, and chin^nsis. Moms nigra laciniata. 

 These two species are those culti- 



2d. That the company have now extensive nurseries, and are ready to 

 enter into arrangements to supply any individual desirous of cultivating this 

 valuable and handsome tree, with the usual varieties, upon application to 

 the Secretary, No. 10^ King's Arms Yard, Coleman Street, as well as with 

 directions for its management. It is, however, a very hardy plant, requiring 

 little or no attention. The best and most copious work upon the culture 

 of the White Mulberry, is that by Sauvages in the French language. 



It would be desirable to have early intimation from those individuals who 

 wish to be supplied with plants, as in case the quantity required be large, 

 the agent of the company abroad would be directed to furnish a sufficient 

 supply. I am. Sir, your most obedient servant. — P. H. Abbot, Sec. British, 

 Irish, and Colonial Silk Company, lOi King's Arms Yard, Coleman Street. 



To cleanse Hot-house Flues. — If your correspondent G. (p. 183.) will 

 adopt the following plan, he may rid himself of " dust and confusion," as well 

 as the " man Friday." Build in rollers at all the salient angles within, and 

 one at the top of the upright chimney; over this and the rest of the rollers 

 a conducting endless chain passes, to any part of which a brush is fixed, and 

 by being drawn backwards and forwards, clears the flue of the soot. This, 

 however, requires a door to be made at the bottom of the chimney to give 

 access to the conducting chain, and to allow of the discharge of the soot. 

 The chain is a fixture, and necessarily always remains in the flue. Mr. 

 Lyon's newly invented mode of sweeping chimneys {Kaleidoscope, anno 1828, 

 p. 371.) is on the same principle. To abolish the use of climbing boys, he 

 advises an iron trap-door to be made in the flue as high within the roof as is 

 possible. From this opening, a jointed pole and brush may sweep the upper 

 part; and a brush carried down by a heavy ball to an assistant at the fire- 

 place, the lower part. — M. Saul. June 10. 1828. 



Genus Cltrtis, in answer to P. D. (Vol. III. p. 188.) — Sir, I take the 

 earliest opportunity afforded me of answering, through the medium of your 

 excellent publication, the questions put to me, in your last Number 

 relating to the genus Citrus, by your correspondent, P. D. of Liverpool. 

 The Sweet Shaddock, I have hitherto been inclined to believe to be the 

 same as the Pompoleon, Pompoleone, Pompelmoso, variously so called. I 

 am not, however, fully satisfied on this point, nor can I say /or certain that 



