108 Qiieries and Answers. 



Oct. 8. 1532; also a melon was presented to the king at Abingdon, Aug. 27. 

 1532: the date in Hort. Brit., 1570. Peaches (peches, or peyches), Sept. 18., 

 Oct. 8. 1532; Aug. 1537: Hort. Brit., 1562. Quinces often presented 

 by poor women, 1530, &c. ; Hort. Brit., 1573. Red Rosse presented to 

 Henry VII., 1499. Pot of tyme, 1499. — J. C. Kent. Levant Lodge, 

 Oct. 25. 1833. 



A Monthly Horticultural Calendar in the Gardene/s Magazine. — I hope you 

 will not consider me as trespassing on your time in offering the following 

 suggestion : — As you are going to make improvements in the plan of the 

 Gardener's Magazine, I, and several others, think that a monthly horticultural 

 calendar, given at the end of each Number, embracing every thing new in cul- 

 tivation, would be very desirable and useful, as it would enable the reader to 

 see what was necessary to be attended to in the coming month. Such a 

 calendar to this Magazine is a desideratum in this branch of literature. — 

 A. J. Burnage, near Manchester, Dec. 3. 1834. 



We feel obliged to every correspondent who sends us hints for the improve- 

 ment of our works, A monthly calendar has been suggested to us before : 

 but, if we were to give it perpetually, it could be nothing more than a repe- 

 tition ; and, if we were to give it for only one year, what advantage would it 

 have over the calendars already published ? In our opinion, it would be infe- 

 rior to them, because it could not be so easily referred to. As to the culture 

 of new ornamental plants, that will be found given monthly, as they come out, 

 imder the head of Floricultural Notices ; as that of new culinary plants and 

 fruits will be given in our standing articles of Olitorial and Pomological No- 

 tices, — Cond. 



Art. V. Qiieries and AnsiJoers. 



Botanic Garden at Stockwell. — It is stated, in Lyson's Environs of Lon- 

 don, i. 791. 2d edit., that Mr. Benjamin Robertson, who died at Stockwell, in 

 1800, bequeathed the whole of his estates for the purpose of continuing, keep- 

 ing up, and enlarging a valuable botanic garden which he had made, at great 

 expense, at Stockwell. It is added, afterwards, that the will was set aside by 

 the Court of Chancery. Can any of your readers give me the history of this 

 Stockwell Botanic Garden ; which, it appears, actually existed in the year 

 1800 ? — T. H. B. Ke?isington, Bee. 24. 1834. 



The Gardens of Dr. Halls' s Baths, on the Outside of the West Gate of New- 

 castle, are said to have been laid out in the style in which the younger Pliny 

 had his pleasure-grounds. (^Beauties of Eng., Sfc, Northumberland, p. 62.) 

 Could any of your readers oblige me with some particulars of these gardens; 

 and, if possible, with a plan of them, and of the baths ? — J. B. London, 

 Dec. 1834. 



Griffin's First Lines of Chemistry. — In IX. 501., Ephebicus Horticultor has 

 recommended Griffin's Chemical Recreations to gardeners. In X. 295., Scientia; 

 et Justitiae Amator states that he cannot procure the work. This is not to 

 be wondered at, as he has changed the title of it to Griffin's First Lines of 

 Chemistry. Griffin's Chemical Recreations, commended by Ephebicus Horti- 

 cultor, may doubtless be obtained through the following clew : — 



Chemical Recreations ; a series of amusing and instructive experiments, 

 which may be performed with ease, safety, success, and economy; to which is 

 added, the Romance of Chemistry. By J. J. Griffin. Seventh edition, with 

 numerous woodcuts. Tegg and Son, 73. Cheapside ; Tegg, Dublin ; Griffin, 

 Glasgow. — J. D. Lojidon, Dec. 1834!. 



Salishuria, adiantifdlia. — Has this tree ever flowered in England ? [The 

 male has flowered once or twice in the Kew Garden ; but, we believe, the 

 female has not.] How is it propagated ? — J. S. Esher, Dec. 20. 1834. 



Cropjnng a Garden. — I should feel greatly obliged to you, or some of your 

 correspondents, to inform me, through your valuable Magazine, as to the best 



