Queries and Answers. 63 1 



and white sand j but find them all very subject to die, except Azalea Indica 

 phoenicea, which thrives tolerably well with me. — F. F. 



Where can the true Clove Pink, Yellow Carnation, and Yelloiv PinJc be 

 obtained ? — J. R. 



By ivhat Means can the Cherimoyer (Anona Cherimolia Mil., Anona tri- 

 petala Lk.) be induced to bear its Fruit in a British Hot-house? — I have a 

 fine plant growing in my hot-house, in a border separated from the tan pit. 

 It showed a good deal of bloom last year ; some of which fell off without 

 opening, and the rest soon after having expanded : however, as it was the 

 first time of its showing any blossom, I reconciled myself to the disap- 

 pointment. This year, early in the spring, the plant was covered with 

 bloom buds, which chiefly fell off before any foliage appeared. For some 

 time the plant has now been in fine foliage, and a constant succession of 

 fresh healthy-looking flowers have appeared; but, either in the bud, or just 

 after expansion, they, with their peduncles, all fall off at the point of junc- 

 tion of the peduncle with the branch. There is still a good deal of bloom 

 coming forward upon the plant, and it is altogether in a very healthy and 

 luxuriant state. My gardener has tried various plans with it; he has 

 watered it both sparingly and freely. The heat of the house in which it 

 grows is that which is required for the pine-apple. I shall feel extremely 

 obliged to any one who will kindly favour me with any information as to 

 the mode of fruiting this plant. — P. D. Liverpool, Aug. 17. 1833. 



A picture of this species is given in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, t. 2011.; 

 but we are not aware that anv information is supplied there relevant to 

 P.D.'squery. — ,7. !>. 



Additional Facts on the Turnip Fly, Flea, or Beetle. — In addition to the 

 information on this insect, which (in p. 505.) we have endeavoured to sup- 

 ply in answer to the query of J. C. Farmer, in p. 504'. and 505., we have 

 now the pleasure to quote, from the fourth number of the Entomological 

 Magazine (published July, 1833), or vol. i. p. 365, 366., the following 

 facts. They are from an interesting communication, expressly on the turnip 

 fly, by Rusticus of Godalming ; from whose most excellent communications 

 on other insects generally troublesome, we have already placed extracts, 

 in p. 334. and p. 442., before our readers. In the present case, we only 

 copy from Rusticus's essay that part of it which describes the course he 

 pursued to discover the cause of this insect's appearing, or rather its 

 grub's appearing, just so as to " commence its attack on the turnip 

 directly it is up, devouring the two cotyledons and the little heart ; and 

 sometimes, in a few days, leaving the field as brown as the day it was 

 sowed." We recommend to imitation, in every similar case, the cautious 

 care with which Rusticus executed his experiments : — "I first sowed 

 some seeds in a flower-pot, with earth out of my garden : it produced the 

 animal in abundance. Secondly, I enclosed the pot with pasteboard and 

 canvass, with the same success ; but there was still a possibility of the 

 enemy getting in, as I had not made the cover sufficiently close. Thirdly, 

 I made a light frame, about 8 in. square, covering it with very fine 

 silk gauze, and carefully stopping the crevices of the door with pasted 

 paper ; and round the pot, where the cover was fastened on to it, with 

 putty ; so that there was now no possibility of any thing coming to it from 

 without : yet this experiment was attended with the same success. How- 

 ever, one point, that is, a negative point, was now proved ; namely, that 

 the fly did not come to the turnip from other plants : this w-as a point 

 gained. Fourthly, I baked the earth in a cast-iron pot over the fire ; and 

 used no water to water the seed but such as I had boiled myself, applying 

 it at the bottom of the pot in a common feeder [or shallow earthen pan] ; 

 then I used the same care, and took the same precautions as before : I did 

 not take off the cover until the plants were of a considerable size, and I 



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