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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



waste of time to sow for bedding. Perhaps 

 your plants Iron cuttings are in too rich a 

 soil, and perhaps they have had a little too 

 much water. 



Names ok Plants. — A. B. — Your weed is Pru- 

 nella vulgaris, or self-heal, a very pretty thing 

 whjn in masses about large rockeries. — Sub- 

 scriber ab initio. —Your grasses would have 

 been named last month, but some of the^peci- 

 mens were so imperfect that we had very much 

 trouble to make them out ; and now we cannot 

 speak with certainty of No. 6. Their names 

 are— 1, G-lyceria rigida; 2, Feetuca rubra; 3, 

 Airaflexuosa; 4, Festuca duriuscula; 6, Bra- 

 chyopodiumsilvaticum; 6, Festuea elatior (.'); 

 7, Aira csespitosa ; 8, Poa fluitans ; 9, Triti- 

 cum repens. — S. S. S. — Your ferns are— 1, Po- 

 lypodium vulgare; 2, Polypodium alpe.stre ; 

 3, Lastrea spinulosa; i, Polypodium dryop- 

 teris; 5, Asplenium adiantum nigrum ; 6, Pteris 

 aquiliua; 7, Adiantum formouim; 8, Lastrea 

 tholypteris ; 9, Asplenium rtlix fuemina, var. 

 crispa; 10, Nephrodium (Aspidium) mode ; 11, 

 Lastrea filix mas ; 12, Adiantum hispidulum. 

 Ttie best work on British ferns is Thomas 

 Moore's Handbook, price 5s. ; the best on ex- 

 otic ferns is Mr. Lowe's, in six volumes, price 

 14s. per volume. — S. J. C. — Apotentilla, per- 

 haps Atrosauguineum, though darker than 

 that is generally. — Subscriber. — Your showy- 

 yellow flower is Chrysanthemum segetum, a 

 native of Britain : it has come up rattier plen- 

 tifully in the Temple Gardms this season. 

 Begonia Fucusioidks.— J.R., Tippcrary. — Your 

 inquiry is still indefinite. There is no such 

 genus as fuchsioides ; you have given the specific 

 name only. Unless we have the generic name 

 as well we can make nothing of it. Suppose, 

 for instance, you had asked about a Japonica; 

 then it might be Aucuba Japonica, Camellia Ja- 

 ponica, Pyrus Japonica, etc., but who could 

 determine which ? In our anxiety, however, to 

 be useful, we venture to gue3s that you have 

 Begonia Fuchsioides, which is easy to manage 

 if you have stove heat, and without that it is 

 not likely to prosper. The treatment must be 

 liberal. It must be in the stove all autumn, 

 winter, aud spring, and during summer be set 

 out in a position where it will be screened from 

 the sun aud wind for two months, then to be 

 transferred to the stove or warm greenhouse. 

 With such management it will flower abun- 

 dantly. 



Cuero Guano. — " Horsa justly complains of the 

 preposterous price, but for that he may thank 

 the retailers, who will not sell it unless taste- 

 fully put up and cased in tin, and require, be- 

 sides, a profit of 33 per cent. We should very 

 much prefer to supply it to the retailers by the 

 cwt., leaving it to them to sell at their own 

 prices. We know this to be done by at least 

 one of them, Mrs. Briggs, 116, London Road, 

 Southwark, and we are informed that she is 

 advertizing her prices in your present number. 

 We are your obliged servants, John Chisholm, 

 Son, and Co., 33, Mark Lane." 



Housk for Budding Plants. — J. P. P., More- 

 ton-ui-Marsh. — The lights offered are cheap, 

 and it will cost next to nothing to reglaze them 

 as far as they require it. Ventilating by the 

 back wall and under the front sashes is far pre- 

 ferable to ventilating at top, and allows of giv- 

 ing air nearly all the winter through. The use 

 of coke and cinders will be cheaper than gas, 

 and quite as effectual for a house 20 feet by 

 5 feet 6 inches. A 6-inch glazed drain-pipe 

 flue carried right through and not returned 

 will be the cheapest ; but, if you return it, take 

 it the whole distance back, so as to have the 

 chimney over the furnace, the heat of which 

 will warm the chimney and ensure a good 

 draught. We should, however, prefer a brick 



flue of 4J-inch work near the tire, and the rest 

 brick on edge. Sink the ground to the original 

 level if there is no fear of water, and you will 

 gain additional immunity from frost. The level 

 of the flue must depeud on the level of the fur- 

 nace, from whiea there must be an ascent, 

 however slight, to the chimney, otherwise the 

 lower they are the batter if still above ground. 

 As you have a go id wall, the additional height 

 at back had better be of 9-inch work. In 

 glazing adopt the usual practice of open laps, 

 puttied lap3 are very objectionable. Gazauia 

 splendens may be had in any quantity at the 

 nurseries . 



Mulch foe Roses. — Sir J. S. II. — We have 

 often recommended a mixture of guano and 

 wood-ashes as a top dressing for all roses that 

 give au'.umn blooms ; the dressing to be applied 

 when the first bloom is declining. But the truth 

 is that any manurial matters th it are of a sol vent 

 nature, and not unsightly when laid on the sur- 

 face, will answer the purpose. Two or three 

 inches of fresh pigs' dung, or short stable dung 

 only half rotted, are the dressings generally 

 most accessible, aud nothing can be better. It 

 is no use to mulch roses with well rotted 

 manure, because it is only what washes down by 

 rain that feeds the roots, and the stuff should 

 be pretty fresh and strong to convert every 

 shower into liquid manure in passing through 

 it to the roots. But in addition to the mulch- 

 ing they should have a careful pruning after 

 the first bloom, to get the next growth and 

 bloom from plump well-placed buds, those next 

 below the pips being the first to push if left to 

 do so, but not so good for late bloom as those 

 a little lower down. It must be remembered 

 that mulching not only feeds by manuring the 

 roots, but also keeps the soil moist, an object 

 not of much importance this wet season, but a 

 good fixed rule in rose culture. After August 

 we would never mulch roses for fear of getting 

 a rank, soft growth late in the year, when the 

 wood of the season ought to be well ripened. 

 At page 152 of Vol." i. are figures of Pascall's 

 cutting-pots, and the way to put the glass over 

 cuttings and eyes of roses is shown in the right 

 hand cut. 



Planting a Fern Case. — F. TF.— A case 19 

 inches by li inches, and 11 inches high, will 

 look well and do well if planted as follows : — 

 Centre, Campyloneurum angustifolium, on 

 each side Asplenium adiantum nigrum and 

 Asplenium microdon ; front aud back, Lomaria 

 antarctica, Adiantum setulosum, Adiantum 

 cethiopicum, Asplenium ebeneum, Doodia ru- 

 pestris, Woodwardia confluens, Polystichium 

 triangularum, Niphobolus rupestris. 



Preserving Green Peas. — Captain S. — On the 

 Continent green peas are preserved in a dry 

 state, and the drying is accomplished by spread- 

 ing the peas or other vegetables very thinly on 

 a clean surface over which currents of heated 

 air pass. Too much heat or the fumes of 

 heated metal would of course spoil them. 

 Another method of preserving them is to have 

 the peas quite dry and fresh from the shells, 

 fill a sufficient number of bottles, and shake 

 them down close together, cork them very se- 

 curely, aud then plunge the bottles in water, 

 which is to be heated to boiling point, aud kept 

 boiling for an hour. The corks are then further 

 secured by bladder or sealing wax, and the 

 bottles stored away in a cool, dry place. Those 

 dried require to be soaked before cooking, those 

 from the bottles are not soaked. Like jam 

 making and many other domestic arts, practice 

 is necessary to ensure success, and the first 

 attempt may end in failure. We cannot find 

 the article to which you refer. You must have 

 seen it elsewhere. 



