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QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
More hereafter.--^-1 am gratified that my variety of Germek Me¬ 
lon pleased J. B. 
W. D. (page 138) has my sincere thanks for the courtesy he has 
evinced. I wish I could address him more fully now, but circum¬ 
stances prevent. Having grown the Housainee Melon only accord¬ 
ing to the method described in my papers, I cannot speak experi¬ 
mentally on the points upon which he requests to be informed. 
However, not to disappoint entirely, I can assure W. D. on the writ¬ 
ten authority of Mr. Knight, that this Persian variety will succeed 
perfectly in a common hotbed, provided th e fruit be supported upon 
a little cradle, and do not rest upon the soil. My neighbour grew 
the plant well in a pigeon-holed pit, heated by dung linings; the 
bottom heat being derived from those linings acting through the me¬ 
dium of a hollow chamber. But what is most to the point, and gives 
assurance that the vinery of thirty feet, will, with judgment, bear 
fine fruit to perfection, may be ascertained by reference to the des¬ 
cription of Mr. Knight’s Melon-house, Vol. 1, page 263, and to F. 
H. S.’s paper, at page 302. W. D. on perusing these will, I con¬ 
ceive, go to work with confidence, and I heartily wish him success. 
March 6th, 1834. G. I. T. 
Sizes of Pots.—I should like a list of the sizes of flower pots, 
or a method of calculating the circumference and depth of them, 
according to the various numbers mentioned in the Register ? 
Poisonous Quality of the Laburnum _A correspondent, in 
your last number, mentions concerning the partiality of Hares to the 
Laburnum. In my neighbourhood, a vast number of Hares have 
been found dead in and around the ornamental plantations. This 
loss is laid to the charge of the Laburnum, and recently they have 
all been grubbed up. I should be much obliged by further informa¬ 
tion concerning this tree, it being desirable to ascertain if our opinion 
of the poisonous quality of its bark be borne out by the observations 
made by others. The seed of the Laburnum is of a deleterious pro¬ 
perty, I having once been obliged to call in medical aid to a child 
which had eaten some of it. In the plantations, to which I refer, 
the Hares also fed on the Holly Crab and Scotch Fir, as well as on 
the Laburnum. Gallenarus. 
P. S. The preservation of game in this place is of recent date, and 
the ornamental trees are of several years’ growth. Are the Labur¬ 
nums more poisonous when they attain a large growth, than when 
they are recently transplanted young from the nursery ? 
T. HARDCASTLE, PRINTER, CHURCH-STREET, SHEFFIELD. 
