cated at Newington, where he carried on the same business as ku father for some years; but having acquired a taste for hotany and drawing, he gradually turned his market garden into a nursery for trees. This piece of ground was at first of three or four acres of extent, but he gave up, for brick making and building, one part of it after another, till at last he reduced it to little more than half an acre. In this small space he cultivated an extensive collection of curious plants, particularly Alpines and Succulents. He raised one or two new species of Mesembryanthemum from Cape seeds, and several Camellias, some of which have not flowered; and for one, known as Ross's Seedling, he received a medal from the Horticultural Society. He was one of the few cultivators who succeeded in ripening seeds, and raising seedling plants from the Strelitzia Reginæ, which he did to a considerable extent.

The taste of Mr. Ross for small ponds and artificial rock-work was at one time such, that he got apparatus for boring for water, and intended to turn his skill in this way to account, by finding a supply for any one who might employ him. He was frequently applied to to fit up little jets-d'eau, and ornament them with shells, flints, and rock-work, and various specimens of his skill in this way may be seen in the flower-gardens about StokeNewington. A sudden illness, however, put a stop to his progress as a well-sinker; but he lived several years afterwards to enjoy his garden, and the comfort and solace of two well-educated daughters, fond of the same pursuits as himself. He had lost his wife several years before, and night fell upon himself in his 62d year, on the 14th day of November last. He was buried in the church yard of the parish, where a stone is erected to his memory.

ART. V. Queries.

A correspondent wishes to know the best mode of bagging grapes; and one who styles himself a "Constant Reader," (inadvertently we presume,) asks how he may best grow and bloom the yellow rose. We may observe here, that it is not our intention, as guardians of the six printed sheets which we mean quarterly to issue to the public, to insert letters of queries at length, but only to give their substance, and also the substance of their

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The account of the conservatory at the Grange is necessarily postponed till next number, owing to Mr. Sylvester's dilatoriness in sending us the description of his mode of heating that conservatory, which, though promised by the 1st of December, is not yet (26th) received.

Professor La Gasca's paper on the Gardening of Spain, that of Mr. Mackintosh on a New Verge Cutter, and of Mr. Duff on the Cranberry, shall appear in our next.

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