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QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, ETC. 
hearing of both animals was remarkably acute, and the knowledge of sounds was 
accurately shewn. They were in the daily habit of riding in a coach, and on being 
seated, before the vehicle moved, they would secure themselves by getting a firm 
grasp of the hold-straps attached to the side of the coach. They seemed to have 
a knowledge also of time, for as the hour approached at which they were removed 
to their nightly residence, they would of their own accord get the blankets, and 
enfold themselves in readiness to depart, and if their removal was protracted be¬ 
yond the usual time, it required force to prevent them from going to the door- 
The Chimpanzee having caught a cold, which ultimately caused his death, he 
had a violent cough that in sound was remarkably human; and as when a fit of 
coughing came on, he was usually given some sweetmeat or cordial to stop it, he 
soon adopted the cough as a mode of obtaining those luxuries.— I. Warwick.— 
Mag. Nat. History. 
PART III. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
I.—QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, ETC. 
Varieties of Elm. —Be pleased to inform me, through your useful Miscel 
lany, the peculiar properties of the Elm. The Chichester, Worcester, and Wych. 
The first is very little known in this part. Salopiensis. 
Moveable Saw Mill. — I wish your correspondent, Mr. Murphy, would send 
you a drawing and -a detailed account of the machinery used in the Duke of 
Athol’s woods, particularly the construction of the moveable Saw Mill. A. B. 
Flowering the Bl'etia Tankervillice .—I shall feel extremely obliged by 
any of your correspondents giving me information respecting the culture and 
method pursued in flowering the Bletia Tankervilliae. An Amateur. 
Strawberries for Forcing. —Would your esteemed correspondent, Mr. 
George Harrison inform your numerous readers, what sorts of Fragaria he cul¬ 
tivates for forcing, as he most likely unintentionally omitted it in his paper on 
the method of forcing that kind of fruit at Petworth, inserted p. 395. Sage. 
Compost for Camellias, &c. —In your compost for Camellias, No. 8, p. 362, 
is it to be as follows 12 barrowsful of loam; 4 ditto of sand; 2 ditto of peat earth ; 
and 2 ditto of rotten dung? Or 12 of loam; 4 of sand, 6 of peat, and 6 of dung. 
I hope your correspondent G. A. I.. will soon forward the list of Camellias, as he 
he says page 362. Perhaps you would mention your opinions on the subject 
of glazing, whether the old one inch lap is to be preferred to the one-eighth of 
an inch, and whether the last will admit the rain ? 
Hautboy Strawberry. —Mr. Lindley states somewhat at large, in his “ Guide 
to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden,” that he has found, by his own experience, 
that the Male Plant of the Hautboy is worse than useless, as it occupies the 
ground and injures the growth of the other plants, and to which it does not con¬ 
tribute, as indeed it does not possess any fecundating principle. This statement 
is so much at variance with the experience of myself and some of my friends, 
that I can, only suppose that Mr. Lindley’s observations do not extend to the 
whole tribe of Hautboys, as by acting on his plan before I read his book, 1 was 
unable to obtain a single fruit, after the year when 1 destroyed the Male plants’ 
