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QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
I strike the cuttings so as to blossom about April or May ? Should 
they be put into large pots, as soon as they are well rooted, or allowed 
to remain in the small pots till spring. I have been advised to flower 
them in small pots, about three inches diameter, and the same depth, 
but have not tried it. Do you think it a good plan ? Should the 
cuttings be the ends of shoots, or pieces of stalks cut three or four 
joints long P What is the best method of renovating old plants, so 
as to make them bloom well; should they be cut down, and when ? 
Should the compost be a light rich one, or a strong one ? 
Early answers to these will greatly oblige your constant Sub¬ 
scriber. Geranium. 
Worcester , April 20 th , 1834. 
P. S. There are now in this town at the florists, Geraniums not 
6 inches high above the pots, with 5 or 6 more large bunches of blos¬ 
soms. I am desirous to know how they manage them. 
Saw-Mill at Dunkeld enquired after ?—Pray will you ob¬ 
tain from your intelligent Dublin correspondent, Mr. Murphy, the 
Agent to the Arboricultural and Horticultural Societies of Ireland, 
a full and detailed account ? so that if I wished it, I could erect such 
another Saw-Mill, which he saw at work at the Duke of Athol’s, at 
Dunkeld, and which he tells us in Vol. 1, page 504, of your Regis¬ 
ter , pleased him so much by its simplicity, and which he considered 
of so much importance to proprietors of wooded lands, that he erect¬ 
ed a working model of it, together with some simple contrivances 
used in Switzerland for similar purposes. He is good enough to 
offer to show it to any person who will call on him, but how can a 
busy man go 300 miles to see it ? If he would send a description of 
it either to you, or, if it does not suit your work, to the Mechanics’ 
Magazine, he would confer a lasting benefit on practical agricultu¬ 
rists. I am persuaded, I shall live to see a circular-saw, of some 
construction or other, as much an appendage to a farm yard, as a 
chaff-cutter now is. The labour which a saw turned by a horse or 
donkey would save, is something enormous. Thos, Dee, 
