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The Gardener's Year-Book, Almanack, and Directory for 1869. By 

 Egbert Hogg, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Journal of Horticulture Office, 171 

 Fleet Street, London. 



This work becomes every year more useful and indispensable to all who take 

 the remotest interest in horticultural pursuits, containing, as it does, descriptive 

 lists of all the new flowers and fruits introduced during the year that has closed, 

 monthly calendars containing sound practical directions for the Flower and 

 Kitchen-Garden, tables bearing on all ruriil matters, and lists of all the principal 

 seats of the nobility and gentry in the three Kingdoms, with the names of their 

 gardeners and nearest post towns. 



[We deeply regret to be obliged to postpone many valuable communications. — 

 Ed.] 



C. G., Tat Banks. — Your package reached us in good condition. The Dwarf 

 Mammoth Celery is of first-rate quality ; and as it stands long without running to 

 seed, it must be a very valuable variety. The stalk of Brussels Sprout is of first- 

 rate excellence in every respect. 



J. F. — The questions you put to us involve so many considerations that we 

 cannot give them a reply that would satisfy us, or be safe as a guide for you in 

 the space at our command at this time. Vineries under one man's management 

 may pay 50 per cent on their cost annually after the first year, while under an- 

 other's they may not pay for the coal and labour. In these matters so much 

 depends on proper management, that no estimate that would hold good in ten out 

 of a hundred cases can be given. "Watch what we shall have to say under the 

 head of "Fruit Culture," and form your own estimates, or send us your address 

 and we will write you privately. 



Young Amateur. — You say you were much annoyed last summer with red- 

 spider on your Vines. It was a grand season for red-spider, being so hot and 

 dry. Peel all the loose bark oif your Vines, Wash them with soap and water 

 and a hard brush, then paint them over with a mixture composed of 1 quart 

 water, 1 gill tobacco-water, 3 ounces of sulphur, and a little clay to give the whole 

 the consistency of paint : before you do this wash every part of the wood and 

 glass of your Vinery with warm soap and water, and the brick or stone work with 

 hot lime-wash ; even remove an inch of the surface-soil of the inside border, and 

 add fresh instead ; do this after you have peeled the loose bark off your Vines, 

 as many of the larvse will be on the surface of the border. See that your borders 

 do not suffer for want of water during the summer. Nothing induces attacks of 

 red-spider more than a dry border and a dry hot atmosphere. 



Constant Reader. — Plant your temporary Vines in the border out of their 

 pots. You should fruit them two or three years to enable you to be merciful 

 with the permanent ones, and this you cannot do if you keep them in pots. 



