48 Queries a?id Answers. — Obituary. 



I have recommended the same plan to be adopted in stowing Swedish tur- 

 nips that are intended for spring consumption ; and this plan is very much 

 approved of in this neighbourhood; as, when they are brought out of the 

 store in March and April, they will be found to possess all the feeding quali- 

 ties that they did when stowed away. The only, but very important, thing to 

 be guarded against is, not to allow them to be put too thick together; as in 

 that case they would heat and spoil. 



The north side of barns or other buildings is the best situation ; as, if even 

 the heaps are exposed to a few sunny days in spring, their sloping sides would 

 absorb sufficient heat to cause the interior mass to commence heating, particu- 

 larly where the soil is of a dark colour. — John Pearson. Kinlet, Nov. 5. 

 1839. 



AT): Genie's Horse-hoe. — In our notice of the Highland Society's trans- 

 actions at Inverness, as copied from a newspaper (Vol. XV. p. 531.), Mr. 

 Gorrie is said to have received a medal for having invented a new horse-shoe ; 

 but that gentleman informs us, that it was not a horse-shoe, but the model 

 of a horse-hoe, for which he received the medal. — A. G. Sept. 24. 1839. 



Art. VI. Queries and Anstvers. 



SyoN House Gardens. — From your having, in the Arboretum Britanniciim, 

 given figures and descriptions of so many trees growing at Syon, you must 

 necessarily be well acquainted with the gardens and grounds of that celebrated 

 place ; and, as these are not shown to the public, I, in common with a number 

 of your readers, should feel greatly obliged if you would publish some account 

 of them in your Magazine. By some who have seen them, they are described 

 as a model of good taste and high keeping; and by others, the trees are said 

 to be crowded together, and the more rare kinds greatly injured by the com- 

 moner sorts. The rockwork, also, is much talked of ; but above all the mag- 

 nificent conservatories. We should all much like, and probably we should 

 be greatly instructed by, your opinions on these matters ; for though we 

 cannot see Syon, there is no reason that I know of, why we should not hear 

 of it, and profit from what we hear whether it be good or bad. — James Allen. 

 London, Bee. 6. 1839. 



liougkead's Swedish Turnij). — Mr. Roughead, seedsman, Haddington, in- 

 forms us, that he has paid great attention to the selection of his variety of 

 Swedish turnip for the last ten years, and been always successful in pre- 

 serving the variety pure, till lately ; when a ninth part of the plants showed 

 the appearance of rape in their foliage ; the bulb not swelling as in that variety. 

 He wishes to be informed of the probable cause of the degeneracy, seeing 

 that he bestowed the usual care in selecting the roots for the seed, and in 

 planting them at what he found, from experience, to be a sufficient distance 

 from all other plants of the ^rassica tribe. — D. R. Haddington, September 

 11.1839. 



Art. VII. Obituary. 



Allan Cunningham, the colonial botanist at Sydney, died there on the 

 27th of June. His death was in consequence of a series of colds caught during 

 the rainy season, in his last unfortunate travels in New Zealand. A biographi- 

 cal notice of Mr. Cunningham will be found in the Athenceum of Dec. 14., and 

 a short notice in the Literary Gazette of the same date ; but a much more 

 complete biography will shortly be prepared, which it will be our melancholy 

 duty to lay before our readers. — Cond. 



