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Peculiar Fruit. — I met some years since with a fruit in the Mediterranean, 
which the foreigner who presented the same to me pronounced Nazarol; it was 
of the size and appearance of a well-grown crab-apple, having a stone in its cen- 
tre, similar to that of a nectarine. — Pray what was it! 
W. Z. 
The Field-Mouse. — Pray what means can I use to destroy the short-tailed 
Field-Mouse } (Mus arvales) all the baits and traps I have set, are of no avail ; 
the damage they do me is very serious. G. N. 
Apple peculiar to Cornwall. — There is a very superior apple, (the name 
of which I have forgotten) peculiar to Cornwall, and the immediate neighbour- 
hood of Truro in particular, it grows of a good size, is very juicy, diffuses when 
cut an agreeable fragrance, and is highly esteemed at the table. The late worthy 
Mr. Vivian had this apple in great perfection in his garden at Truro, and may 
be classed, if not the first, decidedly among the very best apples of this country. 
Pray can you inform me the name of this apple, and where trees bearing this 
particular kind, may be met with in the neighbourhood of London ? 
W. M. M. 
Galium Apar'ine. — As the expressed juice of the Galium Aparine, — Goose- 
grass or catchweed, taken to the amount of four ounces, night and morning for 
several weeks, is very efficacious in removing many of those cutaneous eruptions 
which are called, although improperly, scorbutic ; I may probably be favoured 
through some of your correspondents, with the best and most simple method of 
extracting the juice from the stem and leaves in the greatest quantity, without 
lessening its virtue ; for however succulent the plant may be for a short period of 
the year, it afterwards becomes very limited in this respect. 
A Subscriber, — ab initio. 
Conservatories. — In page 475, you promise an answer to M. D's letter of 
the 10th of January. I feel it due to the parties referred to in the middle para- 
graph, to rescue them from the insinuations there contained. If M. D. object 
ours, to avail himself usefully and practically of the information as to what he 
admits the cheapest mode of hot water heating he has met with : he would 
have applied himself to ascertain the more important point, viz. : The correct- 
ness of the statement and this investigation, would have furnished my answer to 
his suspicions. Query as to indirect advertisement, it is quite evident that this 
paragraph is mere cavil. 
I can now state for your information, that trifling as the cost was of this hot 
water heating; the result both in Vineries and Conservatories, has been entirely 
satisfactory without inten-uption or accident. , 
P. T. O. 
April 28th, 1832. 
The Double Camellia. — Allow me to ask, cannot the Double Camellia be 
propogated by cuttings as well as the single, and if so, why it is not mentioned 
in your Article, page 362, or in Loudon's Encyclopedia of Gardening ? Would 
you point out the difference in Mr. Harrison's Compost, given in pages 102and 
331 ? In making a list of plants, shall I put down the name of 'Authemis Arte- 
misiaflora,' or ' Chrysanthemum Indicum.' When could the Starry Narcissus, 
mentioned in No. 9, of the Horticwltural Register, page 111 be procured, and is 
it expensive ? 
II. L. T. 
