368 Queries and Answers. 



pines, and the lower one for melons, with the roofs all of the same slope. 

 Yours, &c. — A Constant Reader. 



Our opinion of the plan is highly favourable ; as to the expense, our cor- 

 respondent had better employ Mr. Hay, or some professional man ; at all 

 events, we do not feel ourselves called upon to engage in such a task. — 

 Cond. 



Gram. — Sir, In reply to G. (p. 224.), I beg to state that I have culti- 

 vated gram in a warm border, and that its scientific name is Cicer arieti- 

 num, or Chick Pea ; the seeds resemble a ram's head (arietinum), and the 

 flowers are generally pink, but sometimes white. Your constant reader, — 

 N. S. Hodson. Botanic Garden, Bury St. Edmund's, April 20. 1830. 



The Athenian Poplar (Populus graica). (Vol. III. p. 410.) — At Bury, 

 and in the plantations of Obeli Ray Oakes, Esq., at Nowton, near that 

 town, are specimens of this species of poplar, but all female. Is the male 

 in England? —J. D. Feb. 1830. 



The Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica) blooms abundantly every spring 

 in England, and even specimens of but few years' growth. I have exa- 

 mined many, and found them all female. Does the male exist in England ? 

 Mr. C. A. Fischer, inspector of the university botanic garden, Gottingen, 

 says, " 5alix babylonica, male, has often been sent to me, but never the true." 

 Has it ever yet been brought from the banks of the Euphrates ? — Id. 



The King Charles, or Pocket Melon, -y Is this melon the same as the 

 Portugal Dormer ? — A Constant Reader. Feb. 1830. 



Butter made from the Milk of a Cow fed with Turnips has always a very 

 bitter disagreeable taste, not worth by 2d. or 3d. per pound so much as 

 from any other feeding. I am sorry to say I have some of it to my tea 

 this afternoon. — W. P. Vaughan. April 18. 1830. 



This taste, it is well known, may be prevented by pouring boiling-hot 

 water into the churn before churning ; and we notice this circumstance to 

 enquire of any correspondent the proportion of water to the milk, and the 

 rationale of its action. — Cond. 



Hardy Bulbous Plants. — Sir, As I am writing an account of all the hardy 

 bulbous plants now alive in Great Britain, and as many of those which our 

 forefathers fostered so carefully appear to be missing in our metropolitan 

 district, perhaps some of your provincial readers can inform me whether any 

 of the following, so faithfully described in Parkinson's Paradisus Terrestris, 

 yet exist in any of then- gardens. I remain yours, &c. — A. H. Haworth. 

 Chelsea, May, 1830. 



The pure yellow Fritillary, p. 43. .Hyacinthm comosus albus, p. 1 15. 



iVarcissus omnium, max. fl. et comosus ramosus, tab. 11 7. 4. 



calice flavo, p. 58. stellaris pra^cox, white and 



Lady Mattness's DafFodill, p- 69. blush, p. 127. 



The early Daffbdill of Trebizond, stellaris bizantinus, three sorts, 



p. 744. _ p. 128. 



jVarcissus alb. apophy sibus, tab.7 1 . 5. filiifolius et radice, p. 1 30. 



oblongocalyce, tab. 71.7. Ornithogalum pannonicum album, 



Any of those on p. 73., or any tab. 137. 4. 



Autumnal Narcissus. hispanicum minus, tab. 137. 6. 



JVarcissus persicus, tab. 75. 5. Jsphodelus bulbosus Galem, t. 137. 



The three DafFodills of p. 87. 5. 



Narcissus minimus, p. 88. Colchicum harmodactylum, t. 155. 



The six-cornered DafFodill, p. 102. 6. 



The clipt-trunk DafFodill, tab. 107. 1. The Cloth of Silver Crocus, p. 167. 

 ifyacinthm moschat. alb. and rubr,, The silver-coloured Autumn Crocus, 

 p. 112. tab. 169. 3. 



£otryoides ramosus, p. 114. The Spanish Nut (JTris), tab. 169. 6. 



fl. albo-rubente, p. 115, The Italian Corn Flag, tab. 191. 2. 



