630 Queries and Answers. 



most kinds of fruit, but I certainly have directed my attention very much to 

 growing the hautbois strawberry; and having once published the fact that my 

 plan will insure success, I think when I see it contradicted, it is nothing but 

 right to notice it. Any hint I can give to J. M. I shall be most happy to 

 impart. Should he think proper to apply privately for my address, you are at 

 liberty to give it ; and when he comes this way I shall feel a pleasure in 

 walking round the strawberry beds with him. Meanwhile, if he will plant a 

 bed of hautbois with two rows of female plants, about 1 ft. from each other, 

 and one row of males, about 2 ft. apart, 1 have no doubt he will be perfectly 

 satisfied that what I have stated is correct, provided the season be favourable 

 when in flower, without which neither his plan nor mine can succeed. I al- 

 ways keep two beds for selecting my runners from ; and if J. M. has not any 

 (although I have not many), he is perfectly welcome to a few to begin with. — 

 R. T. Sept. 20. 1839. 



Corrections for the Hortus Britannicus, Second Additional Supplement. — Cytisus 

 Welden?. I am surprised that you should say that this plant is like the com- 

 mon laburnum. Its straight erect racemes, and round pointed leaflets, are very 

 different. I send you some seeds and leaves, &c. [The seeds we gave to 

 Mr. Gordon, who first remarked (Gardener's Magazi7ie, vol. xiv. p. 581.) that, 

 in its young state, C. Weldem had a great resemblance to the purple laburnum. 

 We were of that opinion also ; but now that the plant has made shoots of 2 

 or 3 feet in length, we consider it to be very distinct, independent of the 

 flowers, which, of course, we have not seen.] ~Ribes opulifohum Hort. Brit. 

 p. 703., is a shrub, a native of Carniola, and not of Russia. Baron Sigis- 

 mund Pronay (Hort. Brit., p. 661.) is a Hungarian nobleman, and not a 

 French nobleman. He has left his fine garden at Hetzendorf, near Vienna, 

 and lives now at Frankfort on the Mayn. — Baron Jacquin. Vienna, Jidy 26. 

 1839. 



Art. V. Queries and Answers. 



THE Ribes sanguineum killed from an unknown Cause. — I am a great admirer 

 of the Ribes sanguineum, and have been much disappointed in the loss of two 

 fine plants of it. One, two years ago, in a luxuriant growing state, was sud- 

 denly killed, the leaves turned red and crisp, as if burned, and I concluded it 

 must have been the effect of lightning, though no shrubs near it were injured. 

 But this July another has been killed in the same unknown way. Nothing 

 appears amiss in the roots, but it suddenly dried up, exactly in the way the 

 former did. Our subsoil is not good ; but, if they had been injured by that, it 

 would have come on gradually, not from one day to another. I hope yourself 

 or your readers may be able to solve this enigma, that I may not lose the 

 plants at present growing, when they are become larger. — M. D. B. South 

 Wales, Sept. 1839. 



Art. VI. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of London. 



Feb. 19. 1839. — Ordinary Meeting. Read, the following letter to the 

 secretary from Mr. W. B. Booth, upon the mode of constructing wire fences 

 for training espalier fruit trees upon, and for other purposes. 



" Carclew, January 29. 1839. 



" Sir, I beg to hand you the following particulars respecting some wire 

 trellises lately erected here, which you may, probably, not deem unworthy of 

 submitting to the notice of the Horticultural Society. 



" The object for which they are intended is the training of espalier fruit 

 trees ; and it occurred to me, in the course of erecting some wire fencing to 

 divide a portion of the park, that a similar kind of erection might be advan- 

 tageously introduced into the kitchen-garden, which would answer the same 



