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PART V. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 
ON NATURAL HISTORY, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AFFAIRS 
I.— QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, &c. 
Vines in Pots. — Gentlemen, I beg' leave to make a few remarks on some of 
tlie Articles contained in the ist Number of your Horticultural Reg-ister. 1st — 
Does Mr. Stafl'ord intend the floor of the pit to be level throug-hout, and the flues 
to be raised from that level ; or is it intended that the floor shall be on a level vvitii 
the top of the horizontal flue (No« I. Pag-e 7, a) there being no paving- shown 
between the flue last mentioned, and the section, ('/ 2,) leaves the matter in doubt ? 
What is the utility of the compartment (//,) and the disadvantage of the top (i>) 
being level instead of being sloped ; the small holes in the back wall, (««,) re- 
quire explanation; how are they connected wi.h the horizontal flues? (/) called 
the furnace, I presume means the stove. 
Harrison and Ci/rtis's New Mode of Glazing. — This mode of 
Glazing, will, I predict, not be found to answer, when the 
framing- at the angles gives way, which it will do sooner or 
later, from the shrinking of the wood, or decay. The edges 
of the squares of glass will be found to bear upon each other, 
and will fly ; to delay this evil, I would recommend the use of 
diagonal bars of copper or iron, one fourth of an inch thick, 
and half-an-inch wide, inserted flush with the tops of the bars 
and rabbet of the outer frame and screwed down to them, — as 
in figure 21. 
On Changing the Colottr of the Flowers of the Hydrangea 
Hortensis. — It is probable that the water used to moisten the 
soil and sheep's-dung, is a Chalybeate; Rusticus will pro- 
— ''■jI bably enquire, and let us know the result. 
On Neglect of Forest Planting in Great Britain. — It is evident Quercus is not 
acquainted with the legal difliculties that interpose between the desire to plant, and 
the right to plant; and then comes the grand question, — the protit of planting. 
Has he ever known an instance of five pound per cent interest and the capital got 
back at compound interest for planting? Is laud worth the expense of planting, 
fencing, taking care of, and paying rates -and taxes, Parliamentary and Parochial, 
that is of less value for Agricultural purposes, than ten shillings an acre? Of 
course I mean land in severalty. Clear answers to these questions vt'ould speak 
volumes for and against planting. 
On retarding the blooming season of Roses. — Mr. Haywood says the Rose bushes 
are to remain untouched till the Ijiii/s have pushed ha!f-an-incli long ; the shoots 
are then to be shortened fjeloir where the buds have pushed. — Will you have the 
goodness to explain this subject? 
High-Holborn, Jnbj \Mh, 1831. J. D. 
Answer to Vigohniensis. — Gentlemen, in answer to the Queries of Vigorniensis 
in your last number, I beg to say, 
Isl. — I take a plant in March, laised the preceding year, head it down, and put it 
in one of the pots I recommended. 
2nd, — This plant is placed upon the front flue of the vinory, and the strongest 
shoot selected, which is trained to the length of five feet belwixt the Vines on the 
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