THE FLOllAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



mosses, and other plants. These recesses or 

 pockets the patentee forms with one or more 

 perforations or passages for drainage or irriga- 

 tion, and he prefers to form the rj >okets or re- 

 cesses in the face of the bricks or lumps with 

 shell or other suitably shaped projecting lips. 

 Patent completed." 

 Cornish Method of Growing Early Potatoes. 

 — Rex Bubrorum. — The potatoes are set in De- 

 cember and January. The sorts planted are the 

 kidney and the ash-leaf Sidney. The best ash- 

 leaf kidney are procured from Somersetshire, ; 

 and are planted in the neighbourhood of Ux- 

 bridge. The best soil is a light loose soil, and i 

 the ground should be well worked. Old grass i 

 land is preferred. The seed should be set about 

 eight inches in depth, four inches distance from | 

 each, and the rows fourteen inches apart. An 

 open situation, facing south or south-east, is the 

 best situation — proximity to the sea is the most 

 advantageous. The best manure is long stable- 

 dung covered with sea-weed, the seed being first 

 slightly covered with earth. The finest, cheap- 

 est healthiest seed is best. When cut, never 

 plant a piece with more than two eyes, some 

 prefer one. When small potatoes are used, 

 they are sometimes planted whole. To pro- 

 tect the tops from being injured by early 

 spring frosts is impracticable in extensive plan- 

 tations ; but, in small quantities, they may be | 

 protected by being planted in sheltered situa- 

 tions, and litter kept over them, or by trenching 

 them as celery, and covering the trenches with 

 litter transversely till the weather becomes 

 warm. 

 Books and Catalogues Received. — " Lawson 

 and Sons' Catalogue, No. 16, for Colonial Circu- 

 lation," is an admirable restaur of horticultural 

 and agricultural essentials for colonial use. The 

 seed collections ready packed for the colonies 

 are described in detail, and all that is really 

 good in garden and farm seeds has its place and 

 its price in a beautifully printed sheet of forty 

 pages, issued by the first seed warehouse in the 

 world.— "Chater's List of Hollyhocks, 1860-61," 

 contains a list of Mr. Chater's new seedlings, and 

 the best of the old varieties, grown at the nur- 

 sery, Saffron Walden. Indispensable to holly- 

 hock growers. — " Catalogue of Fruits, by Tho- 

 mas Rivers, of Sawbridge worth, 1860." — The best 

 fruit catalogue extant, and amusing as it is 

 useful. Mr. Rivers is quite in favour of tiffany- 

 houses, as will be seen by an extract from his 

 catalogue in another page. — " Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of Selected Roses, by Thomas Rivera, of 

 Sawbridgeworth." Mr. Rivers continues to 

 prune his catalogues as well as his roses, inferior 

 sorts are expunged, and none entered but such 

 as are of unquestionable excellence, or so far 

 famous as varieties as to be indispensable to tne 

 completeness of the list. — " Paul and Son's Rose 

 Catalogue, Oid Cneshunt Nurseries, 1860-61." A 

 capital list ; we see in it all the best of the new 

 rose3.— " William Paul's Rose Catalogue, Ches- 

 hunt Nursery, Walfham Cross, N." These cata- 

 logues are almost counterparts of each other, 

 bui there are now two Pauls, and henceforth 

 Mr. George and Mr. William Paul have their 

 paths parallel but separate. — "Catalogue de 

 ['Rtabbhssement Hordeola de Ambrbise Ver- 

 schaffelt, Ghent." Among the new plants in 

 this useful list are some, showy begonias, three 

 new Camellias — M'. d'Offoy, Triomphe de Wou- 

 delham, and Comte de Gomer — of the merits 

 of which we have n) personal knowledge. In 

 high class stove, greenhouse, and conservatory 

 plants this is a full and useful catalogue. — 

 "Milne and Co. 's Catalogue of Hyacinths and 

 other Dutch flower roots." — Just sufficiently 

 extensive to enable amateurs to choose without 

 bewilderment, yet without losing anything of 



real and established excellence. Hyacinths 

 best adapted for growing in water are in ;■ 

 and mixed hyacinth ed at a 



cheap rate. " Descripth if Se- 



lected Roses, John Cranston, King's Acre, Here- 

 ford." A very handy octavo catalogue of forty 

 pages, well arranged, and including all the good 

 new and all the best old roses. The descriptions 

 are truthful. — " Old Jonathan ; District and 

 Parish Helper," One Penny. A cheerful and 

 attractive broadsheet, issued monthly for dis- 

 tribution among cottagers. Its kindly tone is 

 sure to win, its variety will amuse, and its- able 

 and earnest homilies must advance the cause of 

 true piety and moral goodness amongst its 

 thousands of readers. It is a sort of monthly 

 olive-branch borne abroad by a messenger of 

 love. 

 Coke Fiees.— W. C, Mile End.— Coke isthebest 

 fuel, and that mostly used. If your flue is de- 

 fective, the evil must arise, no matter what fuel 

 you use. The injury you complain of is ou ing to 

 the ingress of smoke, not to the nature of the 

 fuel. No doubt When the work is dry it will do 

 its dnty. Baker's coals are all very well for fur- 

 naces that have constant attention, but coke 

 broken small takes care of itself. 

 Seed of Gladiolus.— H. M. ©.—Keep it dry till 

 March, then sow in pans in fine peaty stuff, and 

 give geutle bottom-heat, and the seedlings will 

 come up like young leeks, and only want fair 

 greenhouse treatment till May, then to be 

 planted out in a mixture of peat and leaf- 

 mould, and taken up when they have done grow- 

 ing for the season. What sort of round bed is 

 it, in six compartments, that you want to fill? 

 Send a rough sketch of it, that we may see it in 

 our mind's eye. 

 Pctkple Orach. — R. V., Jan. — This is the plant 

 which we described as Chenopndium atnplex, 

 which Mr. Beaton described as Perilla. It dif- 

 fers from Perilla in the rich crimson purple of 

 its young growth, the Perilla being a rich bronze. 

 It belongs to the spinach family, and may be 

 eaten as well as admired. To use it as a bedder, 

 sow in May, and plant out six inches apart, and 

 keep it constantly topped to prevent it running 

 coarse, and to secure plenty of the young pinky 

 purple growth. It is a most decided and 

 most beautiful colouring agent for beds and 

 ribbons. It is quite hardy. For the culture of 

 Ixia and Sparaxts, see p. 226 of our volume for 

 1859. All they want as to temperature is secu- 

 rity from frost, but a little warmth does them no 

 harm. 

 Twelve Roses for a Town Garden.— IC. J/.— 

 General Jacqueminot, Madame Laffay, Gcant 

 des Batailles, Anna Alexieff, Souvenir de Mal- 

 maison, Ainiee Vibert, Ophirie, Fellenberg, 

 Gloire de Dijon, Caroline de Sansal, Baronne 

 Prevost, Cramoisie superieure. These are the 

 best twelve in your list for London. Your 

 camellias that are making wood shoots must 

 h ive their own way. It is quite too late for 

 them to make flower-buds this season. The 

 Editor's camellias are certainly not in such a 

 truant mood, but made all their flower buds long 

 ago, and are ready to bloom if commanded to 

 do so. 

 Keeping a Large GEBAwnrM.— J. P.— Your 

 large Frogmore, on a west wall at Bethnal 

 Green, will certainly not stand the winter where 

 it is. If you were to box it in and put a frame 

 light in front you would probably lose it, 

 if the winter should be mild, a little care as to 

 keeping it dry and matting up during frost 

 mi^'ht Carry it through. .But by " no conve- 

 nience for in-door protection" you don't mean to 

 say that you cannot manage to keep it iu a win- 

 dow, in as small a pot as its roota will go into. 

 AVe would keep such a geranium, if no other 



