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be glad if our correspondent, Mr. Turner, curator of the Bury St. Edmunds 

 Botanic Garden, would send us some particulars of this mode of training, 

 and the results. — Cond. 



A new Seedling Vifie. — The Journal of Science and Art, vol. xxvii. p. 229., 

 contains the following notice : — "A seedling vine, raised by M. Van Mons, at 

 Brussels, produces fruit as large as a green-gage plum, which, at the latest, 

 ripens in the first fortnight of August, and never fails." 1 should be glad to 

 know if this grape can be procured in England. — J. B. W. Sept. 15. 1836. 



Destroying the Scale on the Pine-apple Plant, (p. 429.) — I have been much 

 surprised at the treatment that your correspondent L. O. L. has received from 

 his opponents on account of his easy and simple recipe for the cure of the 

 white scale on the pine plant. Having myself witnessed the complete success 

 of the remedy in this immediate neighbourhood, I have taken some pains to 

 endeavour to set the public right as to the merit of the plan proposed. In 

 the course of my enquiry, I have learned that L. O. L. is decidedly correct in 

 his statements ; and I have pleasm-e in answering the queries proposed in your 

 last Number, in case L. O. L. should not think it worth his while to answer 

 them. To the first, I reply that the pines of his friend in Bedfordshire were 

 entirely clear of the white scale at the time he reported them to be so. To 

 the second, they are clean now. To the third, L. O. L.'s friend requested 

 him not to drag his name before the public, and he promised he would not ; 

 but I trust L. O. L. will not only give up his own name, but will persuade his 

 friend in Bedfordshire to permit his name to appear also; as it can only reflect 

 credit on both the parties. 



Why a recipe so simple in its application, and so certain in its effect, should 

 meet with such opposition, I am at a loss to conjecture. Whether its simplicity 

 (being but a " dose of soap-suds"), which, in my estimation, is one of its 

 merits, is the cause; or whether the opposition is made to the man, and not 

 the measure, I must leave the public to decide. — A Bedfordshire Subscriber. 

 Sept.2i. 1836. 



Budding or Grafting the Walnut. — Can any of your readers inform me in 

 what nurseries in England the walnut tree is budded or grafted ? I am aware 

 that imported trees, which have been worked, may be procured in several 

 nurseries ; but I wish to know whether working has been practised, and to 

 what extent, in England. I am acquainted with Mr. Knight's paper on budding 

 the walnut. — T. B. London, Sejjt. 1836. 



The Olive Tree immersed in Water. — During how long would an olive tree, 

 completely immersed in water, be able to retain its foliage ? and would it 

 do so for the space of 200 days ? An answer, in an early Number, will greatly 

 oblige your constant reader, — Antiquitas. Camhenvell, Oct. 25. 1836. 



Vinus Pinaster as Timber. — In answer to W. T. B. of Allesley (p. 498.) 

 I beg to state that the wood of Plnus Pinaster, while in a growing state, may, 

 I think, be estimated as almost valueless : but when it has arrived at maturity 

 the case is very different ; it being then hard and compact, and perhaps equally 

 durable with the greater part of that class of pines, when grown in this country. 

 This may, in some measure, account for the conflicting opinions which your 

 correspondent has received on the subject. It may not be amiss to add that 

 none of the pine tribe, if intended for use, should be suffered to die standing, 

 which is frequently the case on some soils, where proper thinning has not been 

 attended to. It is astonishing to observe, in this case, how soon the wood 

 becomes deteriorated ; and, on this account, it has always been my practice 

 immediately to apply the axe to such trees as indicated a failure. — T. Rutger. 

 Park House, Teddington, Sejit. 5. 1836. 



The Salisbiii-'nx in the Botanic Garden at Utrecht, mentioned in certain French 

 works as being, about the beginning of the present century, the highest tree 

 of the kind in Europe, has long been in a stationary state in that garden. The 

 age of the tree is supposed to be between 70 and 80 years. Its height is 33 ft., 

 the diameter of the trunk 21 in., and that of the head 20 ft. — 7^. 



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