QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
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your correspondents favour me with a cheap and permanent method of protect¬ 
ing young trees from the bite of Rabbits and Hares ? I have brushed the stems 
with Tar, and it seems to preserve them for a time. But the application appear 
ed to me to have an injurious effect upon the trees. 
In one of your earlier numbers, allusion was made to the formation of an 
Arboricultural Society. There can be little doubt that such a project would 
meet with encouragement, and be attended with much practical utility. J. F. 
Schizanthus Hookerj, what is the culture of? Will you or any of your 
correspondents state in your valuable Register, the proper treatment of that 
beautiful flower the Schizanthus Hookeri? I had two plants this summer which 
seemed to do well, till they began to bloom, and then they died away. 
P. S. Should like to know where to apply for a little seed. A Subscriber. 
Culture of Variegated Laurel. What is the best method of cultivating 
and propagating the variegated (or Tiger) Laurel, Oleander, Rhododendron, 
Myrtle and Hydrangea ? A Subscriber. 
Mr. Howden’s Journey into the North. —I hear that our neighbour, 
Mr. Howden, has been a journey into the North, and as, 1 think, such a person 
cannot return without bringing something in his “ Napper,” I should be glad, as 
well as most of your readers, to hear what he has seen. J. Plant. 
American Blight. (Eriosomra Mali) Various plans have been adopted for 
destroying the American blight on fruit trees. I have found the following will 
destroy it, if applied as hereafter directed. Dissolve a sufficient quantity of 
gum arabic in sour ale (Alegar) to make the liquid thick as varnish. When this 
is made, take a painter’s brush, and merely apply it to the parts affected. 
M. Saul. 
Hautboy Strawberries. —In Vol. 2, page 35, you state that at the Lon¬ 
don Horticultural Society, a paper was read “ on the means of obtaining abun 
dant autumnal crops of the double-bearing Hautbois Strawberry.—If you would 
state the means in detail, and the name of the Strawberry, it would at least oblige. 
Sussex, Nov. 1833. A Lover of Strawberries. 
What has been done with Dr. Fellowes’s Bequest to the New Lon 
don University, of “as much ground in the Regent’s Park as the Council may 
deem requisite for a complete Botanic Garden ?” Vide Literary Gazette, 27th 
January, 1827. C. C. C. C. 
London , Oct. 28th, 1833. 
Beautiful White-Flowering Schizanthus. —Mr. Myles Priest, a nurse¬ 
ryman of Reading, has lately raised a beautiful white-flowering Schizanthus, 
which has been named the Schizanthus Priestii. The drawing he has kindly 
sent us exhibits a plant of a graceful and delicate appearance* the corollas be¬ 
ing wholly white, except a beautiful yellow spot at the bottom of the upper seg 
ment of each flower. And there seems little doubt, from the accounts of 
those who have seen the plant, but that it is an entirely new and distinct variety. 
It grows about two feet and a half high, from a single bottom stem, and having 
about twenty-four branches or side stems, each producing from twenty to thirty 
flowers, so that the plant, has at one time upwards of six hundred blossoms in 
full flower! and continues flowering for upwards of three months. It has a very 
beautiful appearance, and cannot fail to be much admired. We had thought to 
have given a figure of it in the Register, but as white flowers never show to ad¬ 
vantage on paper, we fear we should not be able to do it justice. Mr. Priest 
proposes offering the young plants for sale. 
