queries and answers. 
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can confidently recommend lime-water, having tried and found it to answer per¬ 
fectly. Take about a bushel of good quick or unslacked lime, put it in a large 
tub, and add about twenty gallons of soft or river water. Then let it be well 
stirred up once or twice a day, for two or three days. After the liquor is cleared, 
pour it on the grass with a rose watering-pot, very early in the morning, before 
the sun shines upon it, for the worms are then generally at the top of the 
ground. Repeat this for three or four days, and they will totally disappear.— 
Conductor. 
Apple and Peach Trees are better when grafted and budded than when 
raised from seed, providing proper stocks are selected. 
The Manchester Celery is to be obtained at all the seed shops in this 
part of the country, at Dickson’s, of Chester; Skirving’s, of Liverpool; and Wil¬ 
son’s, of Derby ; &c. &c. 
Ligh t and Air should be excluded from the Apple-room , but, before they are 
eaten, the fruit should be exposed to both, for a few days. Beware also that they 
are not stowed in damp cellars. 
Walnuts are best preserved in jars, covered with dry sand or saw-dust, but 
they must not be placed in a damp cellar. Dry wood-ashes are also an excel¬ 
lent preservative for all kinds of seeds ; but walnuts, if preserved in this material 
would require much brushing to get them clean, when wanted for use. 
Heath House , March 1 Oth, 1833. John Howden. 
How Shall I Treat Vines in Pots? —I have a few more difficulties re¬ 
specting the culture of Vines in Pots, which I would beg through the Horticultu¬ 
ral Register to lay before Mr. Stafford. I shall, perhaps, be more clear, if 1 
state my meaning as before, in the form of questions. 
1. How far from the glass do the pots in which the vines are planted stand ? 
2. Does Mr. S. use the syringe in early forcing, and when ? 
3. If a plant does not bear, does he suffer it to grow through the season and 
then repot it, or repot it when the shoots have fully developed themselves to the 
fifth or sixth bud. 
4. What is the average temperature of his house, Max. and Min. 
5. I am at a loss as to the quantity of water. Mr. S. gives water (see Vol. 1, 
page 1 and 2) twice a day, whereas I can only water once a week, sometimes 
less. How is this accounted for? My house is heated by fire and hot water, and 
is on an average 65 by day and 58 by night. 
6. I had a few plants last year purchased for the purpose, which I introduced 
and treated as directed, Vol. 1, page 1 and 2, and succeeded in obtaining one or 
two bunches on a plant, but this year the vines showed no fruit, and bore evident 
marks of exhaustion. Is this a common case in pot culture ? How many seasons 
in succession, on an average, may we expect vines to bear the abundant crops 
Mr. Strafford speaks of? 
7. Will Mr. S. be so good as to state the component parts of his soil ? 
8. Some of my plants have this year shown fruit, but the} r appear to make no 
progress. In some instances, the bunches when formed do not expand their 
flowers, but wither and die off. Is this a complaint of the season, or from what 
cause is it supposed to arise? 
Thanking Mr. Stafford for his obliging answers to my former questions, and 
the Editor of the Horticultural Register for his no less obliging insertion of 
them. Vigormensis. 
