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persevered in. It was good on your part to contemplate the measure, and 

 better still to commence it ; but bad, very bad, afterwards to decline it. Still 

 I have a hope that a death-blow has not been given to it, although you do 

 not pledge yourself to carry it into efFect. Only publish these few lines, and 

 I will venture to say that you will be harassed from all quarters, until a full 

 promise be extracted from you for its completion. Give me leave to suggest 

 a hint upon the mode you may adopt to carry it into execution with ease to 

 yourself, and which, in the end, will be equally availing for the use of your 

 readers ; namely, to publish a few pages of it monthly at the end of your 

 Magazine, which may ultimately be detached and bound up together. I could 

 say much upon the utility of such an index, not only as to the convenience it 

 would produce to your correspondents, but also as to the value it would add to 

 your Magazine; but I will forbear. — T. Rutger. Portland Place, June, 1835. 

 Without a glazed Pit to protect the Roots- of Pelargoniiwis and other Green- 

 house Exotics during Winter, a Flower-G arden can never be ivorth anything. 

 (p. 285.) — This is your dictum; but tastes differ. I think that, were I in a 

 condition to have a flower-garden, I would not have a pit, or any means of 

 shelter whatever. There is a sufficient number of ornamentally flowered 

 plants, as hardy as Laplanders, to render a garden beautiful throughout the 

 year. — J. Londo7i, June, 1835. 



Art. III. Queries and Answers. 



Richard Anthony Salisbury, F.R.S. L.S. H.S. Sfc. — It has often struck me 

 with surprise that that celebrated botanist and horticulturist, Richard An- 

 thony Salisbury, Esq., should have passed into his grave without one single 

 memorial of him from the members of the Linnaean or Horticultural Societies, 

 which I consider as a great disgrace to these two Societies, to whose com- 

 munications he was so often so valuable a contributor. I hope that some 

 member who knew Salisbury well, and there are many such, will come forward 

 and give an account of his life, his long labours, &c. I have had the greatest 

 difficulty to find out the time of his death. Magazines and newspapers I 

 searched in vain : my last resource was to the landlord of the house where 

 he lived ; and, fortunately, there I was successful. He told me he was buried 

 in Paddington churchyard. Thither I went, and got the parish clerk to copy 

 the inscription on his tombstone, which is as follows ; — " In this tomb rest 

 the mortal remains of Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq., formerly of Chapel- 

 Allerton, in the county of York, and latterly of London, who was born on 

 the 2d day of May, in the year 1761, and died on the 23d of March, 1829." 



I have thus contributed my mite, and hope it will stimulate others to add 

 theirs, and not to suffer the name of Salisbury to pass into oblivion without 

 " some frail memorial." — M. H. London, June 22. 1835. 



Salisburia adiant'ifdlia. — The male tree is now (May 1.) in flower against a 

 wall in Kew Garden; and, as a standard, in the grounds of a house adjoining 

 the Mile End Nurser}^ We should be glad to know if it has flowered any 

 where else in England this season, or at any former period. As far as has 

 been observed, the parent male tree in the Mile End Nursery has never 

 flowered. The tree in the grounds adjoining has been much injured in the 

 trunk, which may have operated upon it like ringing, and be one cause why it 

 has flowered. Another cause may be, that it is shaded and overtopped by 

 other trees on one side, which has consequently thrown the whole of the 

 energies of the tree into a lateral branch ; which branch is extended far beyond 

 all the others on the open side of the tree; and it receives the reflected heat 

 of the south front of a house, from which the branches are only distant a 

 few yards ; and on the extremity of these branches the blossoms are chiefly 

 found. A small tree at Strasburg, which blossomed in 1828, was nearly in 

 the same circumstances : it was overtopped by a large poplar, and the bios- 



