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inspection. The insects feed only by day, when the sun is bright, five or 

 six of them being on each plant. When 1 go 

 near the row, they fold themselves up and 

 drop down, some on the ground, and some in 

 the axils of the leaves, where they lie for the 

 space of a minute, appearing like small bits of 

 earth. I have never seen them fly, but they 

 run very quick. I have dusted the plants with 

 lime and soot, but without effect. I have 

 upwards of 300 ft of row, the greater part of which is worse than the 

 specimen sent, and none better. This same species of insect, I recollect, 

 nearly destroyed some double-blossomed peach trees, by stripping them of 

 all their leaves, two years ago, in the pleasure-grounds here. A hint as to 

 what method I may pursue to destroy the insects without injuring the 

 plants will greatly oblige, Sir, &c. — W. P. Vaugkan. Archdeaconry, Brecon, 

 April 18. 1830. 



Talc for Green-house Sashes. — I should feel myself greatly obliged would 

 some one of your numerous correspondents inform me where talc is to be 

 .purchased ready prepared for green-house sashes, and price per square foot ? 

 — A Great Friend to the Gardener's Magazine. Birmingham, July, 1830. 



Destroying Daisies. — Sir, Having the management of a lawn, which is so 

 thickly covered with daisies that it never looks well more than one day 

 after it has been mown, permit me, through the medium of your miscellany, 

 to enquire if any of your correspondents can inform me how they may be 

 destroyed without injury to the grass? Yours, &c. — J. Jidy 20. 1830. 



Why not cut them out with a sharp spud, taking care not to remove 

 any of the earth, and drop a few grass seeds in the naked space ? Salt 

 will kill the daisy, but it will render the ground unfit for any other plant 

 till the salt is washed down by rains. — Cond. 



Trees suitable for a certain Situation. — At the approaching removing 

 season I shall plant a piece of low land, subject to frequent inundations 

 in rainy seasons j the soil a retentive loam, of a good depth, say 4 or 5 ft., 

 and the situation much exposed to winds. I shall be grateful would 

 any of your friends inform me the sorts of trees most likely to succeed in 

 such a situation. —A Great Friend to the Gardener'' s Magazine. July, 1830. 

 Veronica agrestis is plentiful here in cultivated grounds and dry pastures ; 

 at least it answers the description given in your Encyc. of Plants, except 

 that it has a white flower. Is it another plant or a variety ? — John Mor- 

 gan. Southampton, June 21. A variety only. — Cond. 



The A fane Cherry.— In Mrs. A. T. Thomson's Life of Sir Walter Ralegh 

 it is mentioned, that he brought " the celebrated Aflane cherry" from the 

 Canary Islands, about the same time that he introduced the potato from 

 Virginia. Can any of your readers inform me what name this Aflane 

 cherry is now known by, since it is not mentioned in your Encyclopcedia, 

 nor in the Horticultural Society's Catahgue of Fruits ? — John Stuart. Near 

 Ramsgate, Jidy, 1830. 



Mr. Saunders's List of Pears. — If Mr. Saunders would furnish the com- 

 plete list of pears he promised, with notices of their peculiarities as to 

 general habits, modes of fruiting, and degrees of hardihood and flavour, he 

 would confer a favour on me, and, I think, many others ; and I wish some 

 of your other practical correspondents would give some evidence concern- 

 ing the quince stocks, which would then tend to set the matter at rest. 

 I have little doubt the swan's egg is good for that purpose ; but this 

 amounts to twice grafting or budding. — R. Errington. Oidton Park, June, 

 1830. 



Heating Pits by Hot Water Pipes. — Sir, In answer to the questions of 

 R.H.R., dated Feb. 24. 1830, 1 beg leave to state my opinion, that heating pits 

 by hot water pipes has decidedly the advantage of any other system I have 



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