244 Queries arid Answers. 



Shalder's fountain pump 5 which may be procured through Weir, 

 Oxford Street; or Cottam and Hallen, Winsley Street. — Cond. 



Destroying Aj^hides. — J. P. wishes to inform N. T. that, though he be- 

 lieves there are as many varieties of aphides as there are species and 

 varieties of plants which they feed upon, yet that tobacco water will kill 

 them all ; and, if applied warm, will kill them the sooner. — Dec. 6. 1830. 



How to cultivate a small Garden. — Sir, My garden (smile not, I beseech 

 you) is about 50 ft. long by 15 ft. wide, situated between walls 6 ft. high ; 

 it contains three beds and two borders, and runs in length from east to 

 west : at the west end stands the house ; consequently, 1 have one sunny 

 wall, and the other entirely shade. The soil appears to be little better than 

 a sandy gravel ; and from the wretched state it is now in, it must be worked 

 over entirely afresh. But now comes the question. How am I to proceed ? 

 what compost use ? what seeds sow ? what roots plant ? what flowers pro- 

 cure ? what plan pursue to have a gay parterre and fine flowers ? — for to 

 have them I am determined. To you, then, I look for advice and assistance 

 in laying out the beds to the best advantage, improving the soil in the best 

 and most economical manner, and procuring plants and seeds best adapted 

 to the situation ; and I do assure you that 1 shall esteem it a particular 

 favour if you will give me the necessary advice in a detailed manner in your 

 next Number, as the season is fast approaching when gardening operations 

 must commence. lam. Sir, &c. — Philoflora. Chelsea, Jan. 18. 1831. 



The details required would be too tii'esome, and not of sufficiently gene- 

 ral application. Philoflora should consult Mr. John Simper of the Mora- 

 vian Burying-ground, King's Road, Chelsea, who is an experienced gar- 

 dener, possessing both skill and taste {J. D. for Cond.) : or let him walk 

 into every nursery within his reach, and read such gardening books as he 

 can pick up. — Co7id. 



Requisites for a Country Residence in the South of England. — Sir, I am 

 induced to intrude upon you in consequence of the handsome manner in 

 v/hich you have replied to P. C. H. in your last Magazine ; being precisely 

 one of those individuals who belong to the class your correspondent de- 

 scribes, and being obliged to quit Suffolk for a warmer climate. I should 

 therefore feel grateful to any of your readers who would kindly answer the 

 following queries as it respects Dorset, or Devonshire, or Cornwall. What 

 would be the rent of a house with four rooms on the ground-floor, besides 

 kitchen and wash-house, and six sleeping-rooms, with a garden, and about 

 five or six acres of land, in a dry and airy situation, in a village, or within 

 five miles of a market town, with the nature of the soil ; also at what price 

 such a small freehold estate could be purchased ; the mean temperature of 

 each month ; the price of daily labour, as it regards husbandry, carpenters, 

 and bricklayers ; the state of the poor rates, both as it relates to the pound- 

 age and the general rate of assessment ; the price of meat and coals, or 

 firewood ; the general face of the country, as to humidity or dryness ; the 

 price of live stock ; whether clay and lime are abundant, with the pi'ice of 

 bricks ? The above information, I doubt not, would be thankfully received 

 by many besides myself, 



Allow me to trespass a little further upon your kindness, and at the same 

 time that I return you my thanks for the list of choice fruits inserted in your 

 last Number, to suggest that you would be conferring a lasting obligation 

 upon hundreds, if you would take the trouble to point out where such fruits 

 can be obtained true to order. [At present, we believe, only in the form of 

 scions from the Hort. Soc] The price is little in consideration compared 

 with anxiously watching for three or four years, and then discovering that, 

 instead of the finest, you are cultivating the most inferior sorts. I assure 

 you I speak feelingly ; as, when I laid out my present garden, I ordered 

 sixty trees from one of the first nurseries in Norfolk, and made price no 

 object. Yet not twenty of them produced fruit according to that order. I 



