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THE FLOEAL WOULD AJfD GARDEN GtJIDE. 



thanks of amateur gardeners generally. It ia 

 a text-book cf culture as well a» a guide to the 

 selection of varieties, and we know of no better 

 handbonk for an amateur to work by, and refer 

 to every day all the year round. There are 

 four lithographic platei of sample routs, peas, 

 etc., to show the distinctive forms 'if the prin- 

 cipal varieties. — " Thompsim's Gardening Book 

 of Annuals." Noticed in ai other page. 

 Planting an Angle.— If. M. G., WTiittingfon. 

 You cannot do bttier than fill in the space with 

 hybrid perpetual roses on their own roots. 

 The segment of a circle, 1, 2, 3, 4, Jules Mar- 

 gottin, two feet apart ; the centre circle, 5, Gene- 

 ral Jacqueminot, eighteen inches apart ; the 

 two crescents, Madame Viddt or Caroline de 

 Sansal or both, either mixed, or Madame in 

 one bed and Caroline in the other. Nothing 

 agrees ^vith roses so well as i oses. If you want 

 evergreens you will find plenty of notes on 

 them in former i.ssues. 

 CiTBON GoUBD. — H. Saltmanh. — The following, 

 from Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son's seed 

 list, 1861, exactly meets your query :— " This is 

 a truly valuable and highly-interesting esculent 

 fruit, and constitutes a truevaiiety of the hard- 

 fle.-hed water-melon, which, though not edible 

 in its raw state, is now proved and stri'Ugly 

 recommended for its valuable adaptation in 

 makinir a very delicious preserve. In growth 

 it IS free and vigorous, displaying its Iruil 

 conspicuously between the rich foliage. It 

 requires the same treatment by seed as the 

 cummun ridge-cucuniber in being raised in an 

 ordinary hotbed, or under a port.ible glass 

 where intended lo be grown, being carefully 

 vtntilated from under and shaded from strong 

 sunlight until the young plants are vigorously 

 estalilished, and th^-n eventually planted out 

 upon paitially raised ridges of nchly-preparid 

 groun<l in May, as the weatlier may prove 

 favourable, and as soon as all danger lvo:n frost 

 is past. In the event of a trying seasori it 

 should, in common with all fruits of similar 

 habit and inti rest, be protected by hand-glassr s 

 over eacli plant-group, until the running habit 

 of growth be fairly staited, and the air be 

 found congenial tor plants of tliis st ction or 

 tribe. The iruit is nearly spheroidal in outline, 

 averagiiig from three to hve pounds in weight, 

 and is distinguished by its dark bottle-green 

 tint in mottled stripes on an apple-green ground 

 ■colour; and these, apart Irom its preservi. g 

 quality, form a very ornamental ettVct as seen 

 •upon a raised bed, trellistd wall, or conical 

 Tounded earth-mound. Wlieu ripe it neither 

 cliauMCS its colour nor becomes i-oft, and wnen 

 carelully handled it will hang up and retain its 

 colour tnroughoui the winter months. The 

 following directions are given as a success- 

 ful method of preparii g the preserve;— 

 'Pare the fruit and let out the seids, tak- 

 ing out the soft pulp for after use, and weigh 

 the remainder, tutting it into conveuieni 

 lengths and thicknesses. To every pound and a 

 qu.iiterot' the firm fruit, apportion a lemon and 

 a pound of the finest doubie-rehued lout-sugar, 

 with a pint and a-haif ot spriujj; water. Then 

 pare the lemons ihin into a l.asin, and squeeze 

 the juice to the rinii, and let it stand lo gc; out 

 the flavour. Put the truit and most of the 

 water into the preserving pan, and stir it till it 

 is foft and tai spareut, wh.eh v,ia be trom three 

 to lour, or even five, hours, aduin^ the remain- 

 der <.f the water, if needed, froiu time to time, 

 until the opacity of the presi rve gives place to 

 transparency in the fiesh. AVlien boiled soft, 

 add the sug r and scum i'. ; anu when the syrup 

 is well lormed, strain the lemon-juice to it, and 

 by the time this is we 1 ineorpurated the pi e- 

 ■erve wdl be done. It ought to be of a tr.^ne- 



parent clearness, and of a fine apple-green 

 colour and citron taste.' If duly prepared, it 

 forms a most valuable addition and equivalent 

 as a sweetmeat, and a delightful change from 

 the rich aroma oi the raspberry, or the plea- 

 sant aeidity of the marmalade, and if boiled 

 somewhat longer than the directions given, it 

 assumes a Guava-like flavour, which tastes ei- 

 cellent. The soft pulp will also form a good 

 preserve with the same preparation as the above. 

 If used before the fruit becomes over ripe, the 

 pulp is tolerablj solid. Seed packets. Is." 



Diseased Evontmus. — W. W. P., Moreion 

 in Marsh. — The leaves are neither mildewed 

 nor stained by insects, they are simply killed 

 by frost, and you will probably lose the plants 

 altogether. Tne larj;er leaves app. ar to be the 

 variegated variety. The two pairs of compart- 

 ments for Periila and Ciner iria Mantima will 

 be in good taste, but a pale yellow calceolaria, 

 such as Amplexicaulis, would be better, to 

 bring out the bronze of the periila. Gynerium 

 argenteum will do vi ry well in a north aspect. 

 "We do not correspond with the person )ou 

 name, and we know nothing of his terms of 

 business with the trade. 



TcLiP Aliases. — Exhilifor. — It would occupy a 

 whole number ot the Floral AVoeld lo give 

 anything like a list of tulip synonymes. In;- 

 posidon b.is been practised wholesale by the 

 renaming |irocess. Mr. Slater, in the " Ama- 

 teur Florist's Guide," enumerates 110 varieties 

 having 260 aliases. As for tne Cbellaston ulips, 

 many of ttiem are of no use for competition, but 

 there are some beauties amongst them, ai.utbe 

 trouble is to get at their original names, for 

 they rejoice in aliases more than any others ; one 

 of them, No. 20, has twelve difierent names. 

 Ihe truth is, the growers should adopt a more 

 definite system of nomenclature, for al the 

 varieties are liaiile to variation, and a slight 

 variation is generally seized upon a- a pretext 

 for a new name. You may frequently see in 

 the same bed, two or three dismict forms of 

 Devonshire, Polyphemus, Platotf', etc. But the 

 trick of naming them is a fraud. 



Vabiegatku Pi ANTS. — C. C.Rodwell. — ! he best list 

 of hardy variejiated plants is that in Mr. Salter's 

 new catalogue, and a most important ser\ice is 

 1 endereo by Mr. Salter inandiU;; the synonymes, 

 so that a person having a plant unoer one name 

 may save himself the trouble of ordeiing it uuder 

 anothi r. 



RiDGK CCCL'MBEBS AND GKOTHEnMAL Cui.T t"KE. — 

 R. Sivith^rs. — Though you have so large a supply 

 o: heating material, we cannot advise you to 

 proceed as yi u propo-e in raising and putting 

 out ridge cucumbers at once. Depend upc u it, 

 however large your healing-hed may be, unless 

 covered with glass, cueuuibers will not grow 

 until the atmosphere is more genial in its tem- 

 perature. Geoihermal culture is yet in its 

 iifane\, it maynevtr come to mimhood, if it 

 does, it will not be by means of va~t masses of 

 fe menting dung laid under beds iu th. open air, 

 but hy Ileal irom furnaces or boilers conducted 

 through suitnble ch.imbeis under the s ^il, and 

 economized by the aid ot glass. Imagine a 

 piautation with the roots at 70° and the lealage 

 at 3u°, or even lower on a frosty morning in 

 March I 

 Pboiagating. —2?ose. — Do not use a-^ much heat. 

 Most amateur j.ai deners aim at a temperature 

 which they have not sufficient skill to command. 

 Purple orach aud periila do not want heat at 

 all. A temperature of 6u° to 65° wili do for the 

 seeds nu cuttings ol e\ er> kind ef bedding plants. 

 Goo^^.BEllUi Catekimli.ae.— 7?. C. — Hellebore 

 powder, du-ted over the trees early in the morn- 

 lug, will efl'ectuully clear away tiiis destructive 

 pest. 



