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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



July tliey will be done growing', and 

 must be taken up and dried in the 

 shade, and then stored away. A 

 shallot cut in half and rubbed over a 

 hot plate before a broiled rump-steak 

 is laid on it, gives it a fine flavour, and 

 in any case where onions would be 

 used this bulb may very well take its 

 place. Garlic is grown in much the 

 same way, a single clove is enough for 

 a set, but it is better to plant in 

 February, for it is not quite so hardy 

 as the shallot. The rows may be six 

 inches apart, and the sets six inches 

 from each other. The sets may be 

 buried an inch deep, and the best way 

 to do it is to take the clove between 

 the finger and thumb ; press the finger 

 and thumb down, and leave the bulb 

 behind, just pressing the earth round 

 it to keep it firm. In June the foliage 

 must be tied in knots to prevent them 

 running to seed, and bulbs may be 

 t*ken up as wanted, and the entire 

 crop cleared off in August, when the 

 grass has withered. If, in storing 

 them., a little piece of stalk is left to 

 each bunch, they may be tied in 



bunches and hung up in the herb- 

 room, or along the rafters of a kitchen. 

 French garlic, on account of its silvery 

 whiteness and high flavour, is to be 

 preferred for planting to that obtained 

 from English gardens. 



Chives are good things to keep in 

 the ground as a resource whenever 

 onions ai'e scarce, or to use instead of 

 spring onions for salads. The green 

 tops as well as the bulbs are used, 

 and the roots may be left in the 

 ground as perennials. Two or three 

 yards are enough for all ordinary 

 purposes, and they may be planted as 

 an edging in any odd place, but the 

 soil ought to be good. Plant the 

 bulbs ten inches apart in little 

 bunches of about ten bulbs, and by 

 autumn they wlU meet and form very 

 fresh looking rows. The leaves may 

 be cut over as often as they are 

 wanted, and will speedily be succeeded 

 by others, and if bulbs are required 

 some may be taken up in autumn, and 

 stored for the same purposes as 

 onions. 



THE WALTONIAI^ CASE. 



I HAVE no doubt your numerous readers 

 will be glad of auy information which will 

 render that useful invention, the Waltoniau 

 Case, still more useful. 



Ou my first using it I found that I 

 could not dejjeud upon lamp or candle, 

 myself or servants, tlie first going out, 

 and the neglect of the other, for one hour 

 only, spoiled my operations. I now heat 

 it by gas, having the under part enclosed 

 with zinc, with a zinc slide in front, kept 

 three inches fi'om the ground, to secure 

 combustion. With a very small flame 1 

 can keep the heat at 70^, and get it up to 

 120°, if required, in a. very short time. 

 Care must be taken that the flame does 

 not touch the boiler, and to be direct 



under the centre of the flue or chimney, 

 A bat's-wing burner I hare found the 

 best. 



But its usefulness is not confined to 

 propagation. I have an enclosed piece of 

 ground behind my greenhouse, about 9 ft. 

 6 in. X 4 ft. 6 in., in wliich my case 

 stands, with nothing more than a jjiece of 

 calico for a sloping roof. Here last night 

 (March 31st, temperature out of doors 

 19") the temperature kept 47", while in 

 the greenhouse, heated by a Thomson 

 stove, it was down to 37'^, from which it 

 is evident that the case may be so placed 

 as to give you a hot-house, or to answer 

 for stove plants, if you wish. I enclose 

 my card, and am yours, &c., J. G. M. 



CAN A TENANT LEGALLY REMOVE TREES, &: 



Amokg those professionally concerned in 

 horticulture, it is well known that what- 

 ever is committed to the soil by a mere 

 tenant becomes from that moment part 

 of the freehold ; but, for the satisfaction of 

 such of our readers as are ]iot fully assured 



as to the state of tlie law upon the sub- 

 ject, we have obtained a legal opinion, 

 which, we presume, will clear up any 

 doubts that may remain in the minds of 

 those who have consulted us on the sub- 

 ject. We do not hei'c renson on the 



