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Queries, Answers, Remirks, ^Cc. 
(jive preniiuins for the introduction of any new fruit into our liot-liouses, sucit 
as the Mungostan, &c. Tlie object should be, that a small hot-house should sup- 
ply the table with fruit, every day in the year. How do the Russians manage 
ihe'rr winter gardens where they have so very little sun r and what do they 
produce ? 
Pray what is the mode of managing the Iris Pavonia? I do not succeed and can 
«-et no blossom.* 
Might a conservatory answer the purpose, with a roof so constructed, that a 
less quantity of glass would be required, and that better secured from the effects 
of hail ? For instance something of this kind ; 
all the perpendicular parts to be glass, the other 
to be covered witii s'ato. It seems to me that 
very little light would be intercepted, and drip 
and damp he entirely prevented. The advantage 
would be, the great height to which it might be 
carried ; enabling us to walk under groves of 
i ^^7 iHTS&ms^K I Palm-trees, 70 feet hijrh, and flights of Fire-flies 
I V rlJlV\vK\ r f'^o:u Naples and Rome, giving quite a foreign 
aspect to tlie whole. Fine wire-net coverings 
V for the open sashes, would confine these beauti- 
^ ful insects to the house, and give the opportu- 
nity of naturalizing them. The Alps and Appe- 
nines would naturally prevent their approach to 
us.' Ponds may be formed in the conservatories) 
heated to any degree required, by the water 
returning to the Boiler, in which Nymph:vas and other water plants may be raised, 
surrounded by gold and silver fishes. — The Gardens should be open to any one of 
the Trade on paying half the subscription of other persons, to exhibit new flowers, 
or new contrivances of any kind. Much in this way may be done. 
B. S. 
Experimental Garden. — Gentlemen, I hail with every good wish, jour new 
Publication. Confine yourselves to useful subjects, giving your opinions and 
observations on them in a manly, open, and dignified manner, and you must 
succeed. 
If, to yoiu- Publication, you could join a Garden of an acre, in the Regent's 
Park, where new plants, trees, and shrubs might be seen; and green-houses, 
and forcing frames, particularly Melon and Cucumber frames, heated by hot- 
water, might be exhibited — it would be a great help, indeed, to it. It would be 
necessary to fence the borders and fiower-beds in a Garden, open to all on paying 
a shilling ; and this may be done by wire fences, four feet high, and too fine to 
admit (he hand. The same in the conservatories. The Zoological Gardens will 
tell what might annually be recieved. 
A list of all new Howers introduced into our garden, in the last ten years, with 
descriptions and mode of cultivating would Ije a desirable thing: and nt the end of 
each Volume of the Horticultural Register, a list of the new flowers and plants, 
introduced last year would carry on tli? same in a pleasing manner. 
. N. B. 
* B.S. mav e.viiertan an.swer to lii'. Queries up:-:! month. We suppose he nipa]is tlif Ti^ridia 
Pavonia, iustciid oT " Iris Pavonia." C'ondictors, 
