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Queriesj Answers, Rem,'irks, ^c. 
Give premiums for the introduction of apy new fruit into our hot-liouses, such 
as the Mungostan, &c. The object should be, that a small hot-house should sup¬ 
ply the table with fruit, every day in the year. IIow do the Russians manage 
their winter gardens where they liave so very little sun? and what do they 
produce ? 
Pray what is the mode of managing the Iris Pavonia? 1 do not succeed and can 
get no blossom.* 
Might a conservatory answer the purpose, with a roof so constructed, that a 
less quantity of glass would be required, and that better secured from the effects 
of hail ? ' For instance something of this kind ; 
all the perpendicular parts to be glass, the other 
to be covered with slate. It seems to me that 
very little fight would be intercepted, and drip 
and damp be entirely prevented. The advantage 
would be, the great height to which it might be 
carried j enabling us to walk under groves of 
Palm-trees, 70 feet high, and flights of Fire-flies 
from Naples and Rome, giving quite a foreign 
aspect to the whole. Fine wire-net coverings 
for the open sashes, would confine these beauti¬ 
ful insects to the house, and give the opportu¬ 
nity of naturalizing them. The Alps and Appe- 
nines would naturally prevent their approach to 
us. Ponds may be formed in the conservatories? 
heated to any degree required, by the water 
returning to the Boiler, in which Nyinphdeas and other water plants^^may be raised, 
surrounded by gold and silver fishes.—The Gardens should be open to any one of 
the Trade on paying half the subscription of other persons, to exhibit new flowers, 
or new contrivances of any kind. Much in this way may be done. 
Experimental Garden. —Gentlemen, I hail with every good wish, jour new 
Publication. Confine yourselves to useful subjects, giving your opinions and 
observations on them in a manly, open, and dignified manner, and you must 
succeed. 
If, to your Publication, you could join a Garden of an acre, in the Regent’s 
Park, where new plants, trees, and shrubs might be seen; and green-houses, 
and forcing frames, parliciilarly Melon and Cucumber frames, heated by hot- 
water, might be exhibited—it would be a great help, indeed, to it. It would be 
necessary to fence the borders and flower-beds in a Garden, open to all on paying 
a shilling; and this may be done by wire fences, four feet high, and too fine to 
admit the hand. The same in the conservatories. The Zoological Gardens will 
tell what might annually be recieved. 
A list of all new flowers introduced into our garden, in the last ten years, with 
descriptions and mode of cultivating would be a desirable thing: and at the end of 
each Volume of the Horticultural Register, a list of the new flowers and plants, 
introduced last year would carry on the same in a pleasing manner. 
N. B. 
* B.S. liiav expect an answer to bis Queries next mouth. We suppose be nicams the Tiuridia 
Pavonia, instead oi'“ Iris Favonia.” Conductors. 
