QUERIES AND REMARKS. 
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Pruning Nut Trees. —Can any of your readers give a detailed 
account of the best method of pruning Nut-trees ? In Kent, they 
manage to make their trees very productive.—What is their manage¬ 
ment of them ? X. X. 
Preparation for Destroying Insects wanted. —I should 
be glad, if you or any of your readers could give me information re¬ 
specting the preparation made by West and Co., called Chalcidica, 
for the destruction and prevention of slugs, grubs, and all kinds of 
insects on corn, vegetables, walls, fruit-trees &c. &c., as probably you, 
or some of your readers or correspondents may have given it a trial. 
If so, I should be most happy to see their opinion of it in the Hor¬ 
ticultural Register . An Enquirer. 
Which is the best mode of applying the Pollen of Car¬ 
nations P Will you, or some of your Correspondents, inform me 
the best way to apply the Pollen of the Carnation to the Pistil P I 
want to know if it is to be applied to the very tip of the horn, and 
what is exactly the proper time;—also the names of a few of the best, 
sorts of Carnations and Picotees that perfect their stamens: and 
lastly what advantage is obtained by leaving part of the shoot, be¬ 
tween the tongue of the layer and the main branch, out of the ground, 
as I have often seen, and heard recommeiided, but could never get 
any explanation. H. C. 
On the Housainee Melon. Proposed to the Author of 
the Domestic Gardener’s Manual, —Permit me, through 
your excellent Journal, to submit a few queries to your scientific 
Correspondent G. I. T., who has so kindly and liberally offered his 
assistance on a subject which interests me much. On the 23d April, 
I removed three Housainee (striped) Melon Plants from the pots in 
which they were raised, planting them in three separate lights, built 
with brick and Pigeon Holes, each light six feet by four, from the 
floor to the Glass is three feet eight inches. They were planted at 
the back in a bed of loam, and a small quantity of dung, eighteen 
inches deep, and trained upright about twelve inches only, being all 
I could spare and when trained downwards on a trellis fourteen 
inches from the Glass. Two of them were thus treated, and the third 
trained as melons usually are ; they all grew very strong, and only 
one fruit set in the first light, and two in the second. The plant, 
trained on the ground had five fruit, four of which I allowed to re¬ 
main. The fruit at first was a deep green, shewing gradually a 
lighter green stripe, and becoming beautifully netted. On the 23d 
June, the one in the first light cracked longitudinally quite to the 
seed, and in two days after the two in the second did the same, as 
