280 Notices and ^Anticipations. 
white flowers, with a bright purple eye, not unlike the spots on the tail of a 
Peacock, it appears to thrive best in a sandy peat earth, and from the changeable 
climate we experience in this country, it will not prosper without some means of 
artificial heat, altiioug-h it does not appear to enjoy the green-house; but if plan- 
ted on a Vine border, close under the front wall of a stove, it will generally be 
found to thrive and flower freely. The only means we have of propagating it is 
by offsets, as the seeds seldom or ever properly ripen. Conductors. 
Clearing Trees from Land.— In the report of Prizes given by the Society of 
Arts, there was one awarded to a Gentleman for the particulars of his method of 
Clearing Trees from Land, as practised by him in New South Wales. If it be 
not out of the track of your Magazine, will you be so kind as to explain in what 
consisted his method, as it may be useful to 
An Emigrant. 
Black Hambro' Grapes. — In answer to a Subscriber, page 137, September num- 
ber, relative to Black Hambro' Grapes being spotted or marked, I beg to say that 
having had the berries of Black Hambro', and of the White Frontingac Grapes, 
marked or blotched wilh brown lines or spots, I very carefully noticed from 
whence the injury proceeded. Judging it to proceed from a weakness in the 
Vines, I resolved to assist them by washing them by means of a syringe, with pure 
water, of the temperature of the house. This I commenced with as soon as I per- 
ceived that the berries were set. I did this to all the bunches that were set, but 
carefully avoided water falling upon any which were still in blossom. The time 
I attended to washing the Vines was early in the morning, before the sun had 
much influence upon the house. As the berries increased in size, I increased the 
force of applying it, by means of the syringe, as well as give a greater quantity of 
water. I continued to adopt this method every morning, till the berries began 
to change colour, when I desisted altogether. 
Since I attended to watering the Vines as above stated, which has been several 
j'ear.s, my berries have been entirely free from marks or blotches. 
Near fVakfJiekl , Nov. 1, 1831. J. Plant. 
Answer to G. A, L. — We beg to inform our Correspondent, G. A. L., that when 
we have proceeded a little further towards completion of our arrangements, we 
intend inserting short extracts from Messrs. Chandlers and Booth's Camellise, in 
the manner he suggests. If any of our Correspondents wish to purchase it, we 
can assure them it is got up in a style that does honour to the Authors; and from 
what we know of Messrs. C. and B we are perfectly satisfied that no individuals 
are better calculated for tlie undertaking than they are, 
CONDVCTORS 
II._NOTTCES AND ANTICIPATIONS. 
Bretton Hall. — We have received notice that the large Domical Conserva- 
tory, Hothouses, and valuable Collection of Plants, at, Bretton-Hall, Yorksh. 
are to be sold in the spring, by public auction, if not otherwise previously 
disposed of; We cannot refrain from expressing our regret that so fine a col- 
lection, by so noble a patron of Botany and Floriculture, as Mrs, Bea«mont> 
should be thus destroyed. Conductohs. 
