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Queries, Answers, Remarks, ^c. 
You have kindly offered your readers, information on the subject of Horticultu¬ 
ral buildings; I will shortly trouble you for information and estimates on this 
subject. If these lines are worthy a place in the Register, they are at your service. 
I remain, Gentlemen, yours, &c., a young Amateur, 
Sept. 5, 1831. G. A. L. 
Changing THE Colour op the Flowers of the Hydrangea Horten^s.— 
In answer to your intelligent correspondent, J. D., I beg leave to say, that the wa¬ 
ter does not appear to contain any portion of iron,—the spring which supplies the 
village runs through a stratum of limestone. A friend of mine, living in the neigh¬ 
bourhood, showed me, this summer, a plant in his possession, potted in the same 
soil, and treated in the same way as those I described in a former paper, except 
the sheep-manure, which was entirely left out, and it did not appear to have the 
least inclination to change its colour; whilst a plant in the possession of a neigh¬ 
bour, with the sheep’s dung added, had a'truss of most beautiful blue flowers. 
Oct. 6. Rustic us. 
Insects on Beans. —Gentlemen,observing on page 137, of your valuable publi¬ 
cation, a query from a correspondent, in reference to the Black-insect infesting the 
garden bean, has induced me to give him the result of my observations, having 
grown them rather extensively this season. When in rather an advanced state, or 
more correctly speaking, when in full bloom, I perceived the general crop to he 
invariably attacked with the insect in question, at the extreme point of the shoot, 
which seems to be the seat of generation, from whence it extends its ravages ; I 
immediately had all the tops pinched ofl’, when they finally disappeared, leaving a 
fair crop of Beans, wholly uninjured, which corroborates W. S.’s information on 
the subject, as being the easiest and most effectual mode of destroying them. 
But what confirms me still more in that opinion, is, the fact of having another 
quarter contiguous to the one in question, which at about the same stage of growth 
exhibited-a similar infection ; these I suftered to remain unpinched, the conse¬ 
quence of which was a total failure of that crop, which 1 feel fully persuaded 
would have been the case with the former, had I not adopted the plan. 
I am. Gentlemen, yours, &c. &c. 
Collycroft Nursery, near Ashhorne, Sep. 5, 1831. Archibald Godwin. 
P. S —Is this the same insect that attacks the cherry ? Perhaps some of your 
Physiological readers may be able to inform us. 
Curious Bird —Your correspondent, does not appear to be much of an 
Ornithologist, or he would have been aware that the bird he enquires after, is a 
Ring Blackbird, (Merula torqiuita,) and is by no means uncommon in the neigh¬ 
bourhood where he observed it. I beg leave to refer him to Rennie’s new edition 
of Montagu’s Ornithological Dictionary for its description, &c., which work he will 
find very interesting. 
Kentish Tuicn. S. Marheen. 
Vines. —Gentlemen, may I take the liberty of putting an additional query to those 
of Vigorniensis. What time of the year are the Vines to be shifted or repotted? 
In all new modes of treatment, &c., if your correspondents vvould kindly give the 
information of the most proper time of sowing, planting out, potting, &c &c. those 
operations on which so much depemis, would be performed at the proper season, 
