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have since applied in London, with no better success, having received trees 

 of the Early Anna, instead of the Royal George, and Padley's new Peach. 

 Any information upon the foregoing subjects would greatly oblige. I have 

 been anxiously expecting further communications from Mr. Hayward, 

 which I can assure you would be grateful to many in this quarter, though 

 we shall probably criticise some of his opinions hereafter, when they are 

 more fully stated. Yours, &c. — S. T. Ipswich, March, 1831. 



Cropping a new Garden. — Sir, I have lately formed a new garden, which 

 is nearly square ; the walls facing the south being 105 yards long, and 

 those facing the east being 92 yards long. As much hereafter must depend 

 upon the first disposition of this garden, with regard to the situation of the 

 crops which remain in the ground for several years, perhaps some of your 

 intelligent correspondents would assist me with their advice. Independently 

 of the ground contained within the walls, there is a wide border on the out- 

 side of the south and east walls. The wall trees are already planted, and 

 forcing-houses for grapes and peaches are in a state of forwardness. lam. 

 Sir, &c. — - H. Monmouthshire, March 6. 1831. 



Amateur Gardeners and Babes in Floriculture. — - If we were to comply 

 with the requests which are frequently made by readers who, without 

 meaning the slightest disrespect for them, may be included under the above 

 designations, it would be merely to reprint books which they may purchase 

 in a separate form, such, for example, as Mawe's Every Man his own Gardener^ 

 Cobbett's English Gardener, <fec. " A Lady Florist," who dates Ireland, 

 Dec. 13., says : — "I have made a large collection of valuable shrubs, and 

 have been guided chiefly by your. Magazine, &c. j which has of late become 

 so scientific and aristocratic that it fails to assist me." The Magazine is 

 not intended to assist in matters which are already treated of in popular 

 works on gardening, but rather as a repository for what is new or less gene- 

 rally known. — Cond. 



Application of hot Water to the Growth of Cucumbers, Melons, Sfc. — ^Sir, 

 A correspondent of yours (Vol. VI. p. 233.) requests a paper respecting the 

 application of hot water to the growth of melons, cucumbers, &c. Having 

 had some conversation, in May, 1829, on heating by hot water, with a friend 

 of mine, a gardener in this neighboia-hood, I conceived that the plan might 

 be applied to the raising of cucumbers, of which I am very fond. Having 

 a pit, about 18 ft. long, ready built, I determined on trying the experiment, 

 which I have done with the greatest satisfaction to myself and my friends* 

 I have taken some trouble in ascertaining the quantity of fuel consumed^ 

 which I find a mere trifle in expense. I made my boiler of copper, and the 

 pipes of patent malleable zinc, which is cheaper and more durable than any 

 thing else. I began again this year on the 13th of March, and cut fruit on 

 the 1st of May ; my plants continue to bear and look well, having been cut 

 back twice or thrice. The consumption of coal does not at present amount 

 to half a peck in a day and night. I will undertake to make a boiler of 

 copper, and the pipes of zinc, in such a manner as will completely answer 

 for a pit 18 ft. long, at the moderate price of six guineas ; and, if any gen- 

 tleman wishes it, I will give him a plan for a small compensation, being 

 myself a working coppersmith, &c. I can also fit up iron boilers and cast- 

 iron pipes for heating, if required. If you will be kind enough to insert 

 this in your Magazine, I shall feel obliged, and remain. Sir, &c. — John 

 Hulls, sen. Wycombe, Aug. 1830. 



Squirrels barking Trees. — Early in the month of May last, it was dis- 

 covered that several of the beech and hornbeam trees in the woods near 

 the mansion of John H. Wynne, Esq., at Caed Coch,near Abergele, North 

 Wales, were partially stripped of their bark. A circumstance so unusual 

 caused great curiosity to know the cause, and various were the conjectures 

 relating to it. Some thought it was the work of vicious persons ; others 

 suggested that it might be disease ; but from the appearance of pieces of 



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