PART III. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
INTELLIGENCE. 
I.—QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, &c. 
On Planting, Propagating, and Pruning Forest Trees and Evergreens. 
1st.—Pray what is the best season for planting deciduous trees, having re¬ 
ference only to the certainty and quickness of their growth, and not to any 
cost or convenience? 
2nd.—What for evergreens ? 
3rd.—Whether any list can be formed, shewing the most favourable seasons 
for putting in, all sorts of cuttings, layers, grafts, buds, seeds, &c., &c., accor¬ 
ding to the most approved methods, divided through the year, month by 
month? And if no such list is in contemplation, whether you think it would 
not make a very good article in your book ? 
4th.—Whether the worthless nature of Scotch Fir, grown in this country, 
may not arise from too quick growth ? Whether it is not an object in refer¬ 
ence to timber, rather to check their rapid growth? And whether, in conse¬ 
quence, the more prudent mode of thinning Scotch Fir Plantations, is not to 
to take out the largest whilst young, and leave the weakest to come into 
timber, contrary to the usual and approved practice in cases of hard wood? 
5th.—Whether, if this be so, preparing the ground for planting Firs is not 
injurious as a timber cultivation? 
6th.—^Whether we may not expect that in some time to come, good Fir tim¬ 
ber may be grown in England, which has gradually pushed itself up through 
coppices or other impediments? 
7th.—Whether, if this be a true view, the system of growing Fir timber, 
might not be greatly improved by planting single trees in coppices? 
X. Y. 
P, S.—The Spruce Fir is beautiful in masses, and grows well when thick in 
large woods, as in the Hartz Forest; but whenever it is exposed by having its 
neighbours cut away, it becomes ragged and unsightly. 
To Destroy Ants. —Having read in pages 278 and 279, two complainls 
against Ants, I am induced to send you the following:—Some time ago, a 
drawer, in which I kept sugar, was so much infested with Ants, that we were 
obliged to remove the sugar from it. It happened from some cause or other, 
a small piece of camphor was laid in the drawer, and on opening it a few days 
afterwards, we were agreeably surprized to find the bottom literally covered 
with dead Ants. This induced us to repeat the experiment, and from that 
time we have found no difficulty in keeping the sugar free from their depre¬ 
dations, by allowing a small piece of camphor to be in one corner of the draw¬ 
er, Where trees upon walls, or plants, are infested, I should recommend 
small pieces of camphor to be thrown on the ground round their stems and 
in some cases to dissolve a little in alcohol, and sprinkle it over the leaves in a 
diluted state, with a common syringe. 
John J. Godfrey. 
Albanyt State of New York, March 3, 1832. 
We hope our correspondent will often favour us with something. From the 
quantity of subscribers we have in America, we have been led to expect some 
of their favours for a considerable time.— Cond. 
