73'1- Queries and Afiswers. 



seeds of it may be obtained, 1 should feel obliged. Large quantities of 

 hemp are manufactured in this place; and could the growth of an article 

 superior to the common kind produced in this neighbourhood be intro- 

 duced, it might prove of essential benefit to the labouring classes of the 

 town and its vicinity. — W. J. Bridport, May 23. 1829. 



Cider. — Sir, Can any of your correspondents inform me of any book 

 containing practical directions for making cider, according to the most 

 approved method ? Yours, &c. — Rusticus. 



Our correspondent may refer to Croker's Art of making and managing 

 Cider, London, 8vo, sd edit. 1827. — Cond. 



Tulipa Sibthorjnana, enquired for by D. Falconar, Esq., of Carlowrie, 

 (Vol. IV. p. 446.) is in the collection of Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury Hill. 

 — Perceval Hunter. Epping Forest, Essex, March 18. 1829. 



Tr'efle farouche. — Many thanks will be due to the person who will in- 

 struct the British farmer how to turn this beautiful and early plant to any 

 practical use in this country. I tried it several years myself without profit. 

 I have sown it as late as the 6th of June, among spring wheat, but it flowered 

 and ripened its seed before the 29th of September. It is strictly annual, and 

 if it once forms its seed it dies. I therefore conclude, that if it be sown 

 among spring corn, it will rise with the corn, blossom the first summer, and 

 spoil or endanger the barley or oat crop. In Roussillon, where it is princi- 

 pally cultivated, it is sown as a secondary crop on the wheat stubbles, upon 

 one ploughing given immediately after wheat harvest; and in that fine 

 climate, with the aid of irrigation, which is extended to nearly all the arable 

 land there, this species yields a copious crop, to be cut in May, or for soiling 

 in October, when it is ready to blossom. Receiving this check, the plant 

 endures through the winter, and comes into blossom the following May, 

 when it yields a full hay crop, and is then ploughed up to be succeeded by 

 spring corn ; but in England, when I have sown it immediately after harvest, 

 1 have never found our autumns warm enough to force a growth fit to come 

 to the scythe before winter, though the plant yielded a hay crop early in 

 the following summer: and, therefore, the question occurs, whether it will 

 pay the farmer to break up his wheat stubbles for the sake of growing this 

 crop, which he cannot get oiF early enough to enable him properly to pre- 

 pare for a succeeding crop of spring corn in the same season, as he may do 

 after stubble turnips. No farmer has strength enough to break up and sow 

 all his stubbles instantly, as his corn crops are harvested. If the tillage occu- 

 pies much time, the sun deserts him, and the stubble crops do not answer 

 expectation; and for the little that he can plough up in good time, winter 

 vetches and stubble turnips will, probably, answer his purpose better than 

 Trefle farouche. It is not impossible, that by sowing the Trefle farouche 

 by itself in July, a green crop mig-ht be obtained for feeding or soiling in 

 October, to be succeeded by a hay crop in May; but in July no spring corn 

 remains to be sown with it. What farmer will give up a whole year's cul- 

 ture to a green crop in autumn, and a hay crop in the following spring, 

 without corn ? It is, therefore, improbable that this crop will, in our cold 

 climate, be of very extensive utility. Will some farmer try the experiment 

 of sowing it together with lammas wheat in July, feeding down both in 

 autumn, mowing off the hay in May, and leaving the wheat to rise and per- 

 fect itself afterwards? It is to be feared the wheat plant would be too 

 much exhausted by the autumnal feeding and spring mowing, to peld agood 

 crop of grain after this severe operation. The Trefle farouche is a plant of 

 singular beauty; but, from the deficiency of ligneous matter, the hay it 

 makes must weigh very light, and for the same reason it must be more suit- 

 able for sheep than for horses. 



Trifoliu77i Molineri. A plant extremely resembling the Trefle farouche 

 in habits, except that the blossom is of a paler colour, especially at the apex. 



