92 Queries and Answers. 



Langold is near Rotlierham, and is now the property of H. Gaily Knight, 

 Esq. M. P., a gentleman who inherits the fine taste of his predecessors. 



" Aston still exhibits evidence of the favourite employment of Mr. Mason." 

 (Vol. ii. p. 168.) If I remember right he was vicar of Aston. 



Tankersley Park. — " Before IGSi, Lady Fanshawe, speaking of Tankersley 

 Park says : ' I found .... the country plentiful and healthy, and very pleasant, 

 but there was no fruit in it till we planted some, and my Lord Strafford says now, 

 that what we planted is the best fruit in the North.' " Hunter adds : " The 

 fact which Lady Fanshawe notices, that before her time there was no fruit in 

 this part of the country, is curious : but perhaps the statement is to be taken 

 with some qualification. I find Dr. Berrie cultivating strawberries at Hod- 

 royd before this time. The Fanshawes were great gardeners. Sir Henry 

 Fanshawe had a curious garden at Ware." (Vol. ii. p. 303). 



Tankersley is about half-way between Sheffield and Barnsley, westward of 

 the road. Hodroyd is 5 miles N. E. of Barnsley. I am inclined to think 

 that Lady Fanshawe's account is more hteral than Hunter seems disposed 

 to think. The old accounts of the great families might, perhaps, if properly 

 kept, throw some unexpected light on points like these. — Thomas Wilson. 

 Crimbles House, near Leeds, Oct. 9. 1842. 



An evergreen Larch has been discovered in his plantations by a gentleman 

 in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen; and he is anxious to know if any of our 

 correspondents have seen or heard of an evergreen larch. He also wishes to 

 know, 



Whether the Larch can be frofagated by Cuttings, — To this question we 

 answer, that every ligneous dicotyledonous plant whatever, that produces a 

 shoot long enough to have two or three buds on it, can be propagated by 

 cuttings ; because every such plant, when wounded into the soft wood, has 

 an inherent power of healing that wound ; because the heahng process consists 

 in the protrusion of granulated matter from the upper lip of the wound ; and 

 this granulated matter protrudes roots when placed in favourable circum- 

 stances. If, then, the cutting be cut directly through where it has been 

 wounded, immediately below this granulated matter, and planted in sand, 

 roots will be produced from the granulations. It is true that the process is 

 much more rapid and certain in some plants than in others, but in all it will 

 take place, if the operation of cutting into the soft wood is properly per- 

 formed on the lower part of a shoot still growing, but just beginning to 

 ripen its wood, and the cutting afterwards carefully planted in sand, and kept 

 in a state of uniform temperature and moisture. In many cases the cutting 

 may be taken off' at once, without waiting for granulations ; in others, it may 

 be ringed or notched immediately under a bud ; in some cases, a slit may be 

 made vertically through a shoot where there is a bud or joint, and the slit 

 kept open by a wedge till it has granulated on the edges of the wound. It 

 may then be cut off" across the joint, or rather towards its lower extremit)'. 

 Hoses, rhododendrons, azaleas, arbutus, and a great many trees and shrubs 

 that are commonly propagated by layers, may be increased in this manner, as 

 Mr. Cooper, late of the Epsom Nursery, but now possessor of the Brixton 

 Nursery, has abundantly proved ; and we should think it the most certain 

 mode with the evergreen larch, making the slit an inch or two in length, 

 through the lower part of the shoot, in the month of July, when it is just 

 beginning to ripen. There are a great many other modes of applying the 

 principle, not only to shoots containing woody matter, but even to leaves, 

 many of which, from the common cabl)age to the orange, if wounded at the 

 lower extremity of the petiole before the leaf has quite done growing, will 

 granulate, and, when planted, produce roots. See this matter treated in 

 detail in the Suburban Horticulturist. — Cojid. 



