378 Queries, Annvers, Remarks-, Sfc. 
I nm exceeding'ly glad to see, that it is your intention to give memoirs of the 
lives of Gardeners and Naturalists, it will form a valuable feature in the Register, 
and it may be done without changing' the character of your Magazine, as your 
correspondent, "a Lover of Gardens," supposes it would do. The portraits 
which you propose giving, might, certainly, give place to figures of new and rare 
plants. It would be a sort of Flora to such of your readers as could not afford to 
pay for the Botanical Magazine, Botanical Register, or Loddiges' Botanical Ca- 
binet. J. M. 
P. S. — 1 liave sent you a few seeds of a Cucumber, which I have this year 
grown ; it was recommended to me by the seedsman, who supplied me. He gave 
it the name of *' Prolific House Cucumber, and said it had been raised at Sion- 
Honse. It is a beautiful, smooth, and green fruit, measuring from 17 to 20 
inches. I suppose it to be the "Serene.'' In the course of next summer, you 
will be able to ascertain wliat sort it is. Also, a few see'ds of a bulbous-rooted 
plant, which in every respect resembles an Allium, but has not the scent peculiar 
to that tribe of plants. 
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Framb Fon Tender Annuals. — Gentlemen, a subscriber to your very amusing 
and instructive publication, wishes for some information on the following subject, 
and he thinks, that if given with your usual perspicuity, it will be highly prized 
by many, like himself, young amateur gardeners with small means. 
Would it suit your design to give some plain directions, as to the construction 
and management of a small frame, for the purpose of raising such tender annuals 
as cannot be produced in the open ground? Whether, after sowing the seeds, 
strikino- a few cuttings, and propagating the Dahlias, in the manner you recom- 
mend, such frame could be made applicable to growing a few Melon plants ? 
Wli&ther it should be made of tanner's bark or manure? And lastly, What sort of 
mould would best suit all purposes? 
If you siiould be disposed to answer these questions, you would perhaps subjoin 
a list of such flowers as occur to you as easiest raised, and making most show in 
the open ground, and what a packet containing a small quantity of the seeds of 
each, would cost as also where they should be bought. 
Many will act upon this hint if you think it worth while throwing it out, and tiie 
directions you issue every month will be attended to by more disciples than you 
may imagine Excuse all those questions, which, however, would never have 
sno-o-ested themselves, but from perusing your pleasing work. rT"] 
Owershy, Lincohishire, Dec. 15, 1831. | ♦ \ 
On Destroying Sparrows. — In page 277, J. S. appears to think my method 
of exterminating House .Sparrows dangerous, and when completed, very dis- 
advantageous to the country This I conceive qnite improbable, for so well are 
their destructi>e habits known, that nine parishes out of ten, throughout the 
Kino'doni, give a reward for every Sparrow's head taken to the overseer. The 
other remark respecting the destruction of the Earth Worm, rendering the ground 
sterile, is erroneous. How many thousand acres of the most fertile land, have we 
in this kino'dom, where scarcely a worm is to be found, — for instance, all meadows 
irrio-ated by rivers and brooks have scarcely any worms; this arises from two 
causes first, they cannot exist long under wet, and second, such earth contains a 
considerable degree of sand, the points or angles of which acting on the body of 
the worm, would cause its death by friction. The only way worms appear to nie 
to contribute to the fertility of the earth, is this, they collect to their holes a qnan- 
