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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



at all, that becomes a matter of manufacture 

 only. 

 Cydonia Japonica. — A. P., Bhickforcl. — The 

 Pyrus Japonica, more correctly known as Cydo- 

 nia Japonica, is increased by layers. It may 

 also be worlicd on thorn f todcs. Tlie layers are 

 put down in September in the usual way, and 

 are allowed to remain till the September fol- 

 lowing, when they are taken off and planted in 

 nursery rows until strong; enough to be removed 

 to the places they are to decorate. It will grow 

 in any good loamy soil or clay, and makes a 

 very beautiful bush or standard. But the best 

 place for it is a dwarf wall. 

 Musgkave's Slow CoMni-sTiON Stove. — Messrs. 

 Musgrave have shown their anxiety to meet the 

 wants of amateurs by ofleiing their Slow Com- 

 bustion Stove at £4 10.«. ; at a less price than that 

 they say it is impossible to produce it of sufli- 

 cient size to burn all night. The late hard frosts 

 have tried ours severely, and it has not failed to 

 do all, and more than all, that was required of 

 it. We have removed the horizontal cliimney, 

 and substituted an upright one, consisting of 

 three lengths of four-inch glazed drain pipe, 

 making a six feet chimney, and by this method 

 we find the stove to be" capable of heating a 

 house considerablylarger than the one in which 

 we have tested it — large enough, in fact, for a 

 house thirty-five feet in length. We strongly ad- 

 vise those who adopt it to use a direct ujiright 

 chimney instead of an horizontal one, and to 

 construct a cold air drain to the bottom of the 

 stove, so that the circulation of air through its 

 chambers may suffice to keep the house con- 

 stantly warmed with fresh air from without. 

 Taking an Old Garden. — B.ll. — Eead thefirst, 

 second, and third chapters of " Profitable Gar- 

 dening" in the first volume of the Floral 

 Would. Your long-neglected currant and 

 gooseberry trees must be cut back, but if )ou 

 cut them all back you will lose the crop this 

 season. Therefore cut back to well placed forks 

 and stout rods every alternate tree all along the 

 wall, and the others trim up and thin away fore- 

 right and weak shoots. As those close pruned 

 make new growth this season, train in regu- 

 larly, and remove by finger and thumb all shoots 

 that break where you do not want them, and you 

 will get bearing wood for next year ; and then 

 you can cut back the other half, and after that 

 manage them in your own way. American 

 blight has been dealt with pretty often in these 

 pages. Eead the article at page 28 of the first 

 volume of the Flobal Wchld, and you will 

 gain information that wiU be worth poiuids to 

 you. A very simple and effectual way of cleansing 

 apple-trees is to scrub them smartly with a dandy 

 brush dipped in warm brine. You must cover 

 the grass underneath them with mats, or the 

 brine which falls will kill it. Three years ago 

 -we treated a lot of old neglected trees that way, 

 and they have been pictures of health andfruit- 

 fiilncss ever since. Small bush trees affe( ted with 

 American bhght should be painted with Gishurst 

 hall a pound, clay half a pound, water one gallon. 

 KosES. — J. JR.— Twelve shiUings a dozen for roses 

 of good sorts, on their own bottoms, is a fair 

 price, and you must not expect to get good 

 plants for less. Yours, varying from a foot 

 high to little bushes, with stems as thick as 

 pencils, are good average plants, such as gar- 

 deners call " nice stuflf." You did quite right to 

 put them into the house for the winter, and 

 quite wrong to order them at the fall of the 

 year, unless they were for pot culture. The 

 month of April is" the best time to turn out roses 

 on their own roots, and you had better keep 

 yours in their pots till then. Though you think 

 you have paid at too high a rate, you will not 

 regret the purchase if you do justice to the 

 plants. The reason why the nurseries prefer 



to send out worked plants is, because they can 

 give their customers more to look at for the 

 same money. You will not see such fibres on the 

 roots of worked plants as those which surprised 

 you in your lot; the Jlanetti makes an abun- 

 dance of fibres, and hence itgets enough food ou 

 poor soils, but briars never did, and never will 

 diliuse their spongioles about profusely, and 

 hence they must be well fed, or the roses ou 

 them languish. We would sooner have your 

 plants, at the price you paid, (and we pay four 

 times as much sometimes, and never pay less) 

 than any quantity of the worked plants that are 

 offered at prices that tempt people who have 

 not learnt the difference between price and 

 value. Ficus elastica is really a stove plant, 

 but you will often see it in good health where 

 it has CO better place all winter than the win- 

 dow of a dwelling-room. Give it a really warm 

 greenhouse and it will do ; but a greenhouse 

 not constantly heated is less safe for it than a 

 sitting-room. The Pyracantba is theevergreen 

 thorn, Cratccgus pyi-acantha, and a charming 

 thing it is, with its splendid bunches of berries 

 all the winter. Not one nursery in a hundred 

 keeps it, why, we were never able to learn ; we 

 know that after writing to a dozen different 

 places we had at last to raise it from seed, and 

 practise patience against our will. 



Pelabgokiums neglected. — Amateur. — The 

 plants that were forgotten last season had better 

 be left alone till they begin to grow freely j 

 then cut them into respectable shapes, and a 

 week after cutting repot them, and after that 

 train out the new growth and shift as required. 

 They will bloom late and be useful, but will not 

 be good examples of culture. 



Catalogues and Books Reckived. — "William 

 Thompson's Catalogue of Flower Seeds for 

 18G1, Tavern Street, Ipswich." We have fre- 

 quently commended this for its excellent ar- 

 rangement, fulness, honesty, and typographical 

 neatness. It merits higher praise than ever 

 this year, for it bears upon every page evidence 

 of having been prepared by a seedsman who 

 proves every novelty before he ofl'ers it, and 

 who has no faith in new things until he has 

 proved them to be good. — " Priced Catalogue ot 

 New and Genuine Seeds for 1861, by Messrs. 

 Milne and Co., Camellia Nursery, Wandsworth 

 Koad, London, S." A very great improvement 

 on the dandyfied blue ink catalogues issued by 

 Messrs. Milne in former years. It contains 

 everything useful, the cultural notes are brief 

 and to the purpose. — ' ' The Chemist and Druggist 

 Monthly Trade Circular, James Kirth, 24, Bow 

 Lane, London, E.C." The most perfect model 

 of a trade circular we have yet seen. It is more 

 than a "circular" indeed, for it contains thirty- 

 eight pages of information on the progress of 

 chemistry, and amongst the articles are some 

 of high scientific ability ; of which we may in- 

 stance the papers on Photographic Chemicals, 

 and the Natural Order Ranunculacea;, as ad- 

 mirably done. We advise those of our readers 

 who are in any way interested in chemistry and 

 pharmacy to make acquaintance with this work 

 at once. 



HusTic Adoenments. — Precis. — You are quite 

 mistaken in assuming relationship between 

 "Eustic Adornment for Homes of Taste," and 

 the French work " liaison Rustique des Dames." 

 The titles of the four parts, into which the latter 

 work is divided, sufficiently attest that they are 

 wide as the poles asunder. The divisions are — 

 La Tenue de Manage ; le Manuel de Cuisine ; 

 le Traite de Jardinage ; I'Hygiene et la Mede- 

 cine Domestique. " Eustic Adornments" does 

 not contain a word about housekeeping, cookery, 

 or domestic medicine. Arthur Young's work 

 lias been published in French, under the title 

 " Cidfivafeiir Anglais," in eighteen volumes. 



