382 Answers to Qicerzes, and Queries. 



series of experiments properly conducted, and I am sure there is no subject 

 that comes more within the objects of the Society than this, as the know- 

 ledge that would be acquired would not only be useful in sending seeds 

 from this country, but also in the case of those that may be sent home. We 

 might thus have many new vegetables, which, with our present imperfect 

 knowledge, we can never obtain. Neither would the Society's labours in 

 this way interfere with the efforts of private individuals in the introduction 

 of new fruits and vegetables. — Semina. London, Afril 15. 1827. 



Gold and Silver Fish. — Something of their history and proper treatment 

 is wanted, and whether the Squilla aqua dulcis destroys the young fry, 

 or what else is prejudicial to the increase of the fish. — C. Hale Jessop. 

 Cheltenham, Sept. 1827. 



Lime as a Manure. — You have had much on the use and abuse of salt 

 in your Magazine ; may I beg the favour of you, or some of your cor- 

 respondents, to give a practical essay on the effects of lime as a manure. — 

 T**** R—d. Oct. 11. 1827 



Medicinal Qualities of Garden Plants. — Sir, Would it not be an im- 

 provement to your valuable Magazine, if you were occasionally to notice 

 the medicinal qualities of some of our garden plants, &c. The leaves of 

 the black currant, for instance, if dried in the manner of tea leaves, would 

 make a pleasant beverage in the shape of an infusion or decoction, and prove 

 very beneficial in cases of gravel, which is a complaint I think gardeners 

 are much troubled with, probably from the effects of drinking hard beer, 

 very common in the south-west of England. — C. F. W. Fazeley, Nov. 20. 



Disease of the Anemone. — On reading the culture of the anemone in 

 the Encyclopcedia of Gardening, I do not observe any account of a disease 

 which the anemones in my little garden have suffered from this year." The 

 roots send up numerous strong leaves, higher than usual, and of an un- 

 natural thickness in the stalk : the leaf itself is much curled, of a sickly 

 green, and the under surface covered with minute tubercles. None of these 

 plants have flowered. I think this is a disease purely vegetable, in other 

 words, not produced by insects. May it not be the effect of old age ? I 

 should observe that the A. coronaria in its native climate generally grows 

 in sandy tracts close to the sea. On the shores of Messina, in Sicily, 1 have 

 met with it in great abundance. — A. B. Warwick, July, 1826. 



Preserving Apples. — Mr. Gibb (p. 9.) would render a service to a nu- 

 merous class in this latitude if he would inform uf, in your Magazine, what 

 variety of apple it is that he finds to resist the effects of frost. — W. G. W. 

 Liverpool, Nov. 21. 



A Tree, the young branches of ivhieh drop ivater, in a manner almost ap- 

 proaching to a shower, has been lately discovered in the interior of Brazil. 

 {Times, Dec. 22.) Query, its scientific name? — R. S. 



Vines. — In the gardens of the Earl of Sefton at Stoke, about six miles 

 from Windsor, are said to be remarkably fine specimens of young vines. 

 Can any of your readers say if there is any thing particular in their treat- 

 ment ?—T. J. M. 



Scampston Elm. — Sylvanus would be glad to know if this variety of elm 

 (mentioned in Encyc. ofAgr., § 7025.) is to be procured in the northern nur- 

 series, as he has not been able to find it in the west of England, and has 

 written to London for it without success? — We should be glad if Mr. 

 Falla, our friend Mr. Pontey of Huddersfield, or some other Newcastle or 

 Yorkshire reader, would attend to this query. — Cond. 



Heating by hot Water. — In your useful Magazine (p. 186.) you give 

 two pians for heating stoves by hot water. As I intend building one of 

 that description, I shall be much obliged for some further particulars. I 

 wish to have only one boiler, and should suppose that the pipes may be so 

 laid into it that, by stopcocks, I might make each partition of any heat I 



