Jit) TIIK FLOliAL WOULD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



TO COliRESPONDENTS. 



G. 11. —A small charcoal stove might answer the purpose, provided the fuel is 

 allowed to burn quite clear before the stove is taken into the house. A small gas 

 lieating appsiratus would be the most desirable for a small Louse like yours. 



X. Z. — The plant mentioned is naturally very shy-flowerinn, and requires a 

 thorough season of rest. The soil sliould be Ucpt quite dry during the winter. The 

 plant received with your communication is Diplacus glutinosus. 



Magnolia guandiflora. — II. S. P. — This niMgnolia would do exceedingly 

 well m ilie position inentioned in your letter. We would advise you to procure, as 

 soon as convenient, a strung plant, and mark out a place about three feet square. 

 Apply a bairowf'ul of manure, and then dig it in, turning the sjil up to a depth of 

 about two feet. Plant as soon as the border is ready. 



YiiiGiMAX CiiEKPEH. — Ampelopais. — The Virginian Creeper maybe propa- 

 gated by pegging the yoiitig slu-ots down, and covering a portion of them with soil. 

 By next autumn they will be furnished with sutHcient loois to admit of their being 

 separated from the parent plants, and plaated where required. They thrive in almost 

 any kind of soil. 



' CoLEUs. — Mr.^. J.f Brandon. — The coitus may be cut down to within a short 

 distance of the surface, but if the plants are in a ( ool house, the pruning should be 

 deferred until the spring. In reference to furnishing the conservatory, see the 

 Floral Would, September, 1873, page 272. 



Myrtles. — An Old Subscriber.— Fiom the appearance of the leaves, we should 

 say the pots are full of worms. It is very possible that the plants were turned out 

 of doors too early in the season, and injured by the exposure to the cold before 

 they bad been properly hardened olf. It may be that the drainage is out of 

 order, and the soil has become sour in consequence of the stagnant moisture in it. 



F. C, Teignmouth. — The climber was so withered and powdered that we could 

 make nothing of it. The Clematis appears to be Clematis graveolens, Lindley, of 

 ■which a woodcut figure is given in the Journal of the Eoyal Horticultural Society 

 (i. 307). You can plant almost any of the climbers on a north wall in your good 

 climate. The following are sure to succeed : Ampelopsls japonica, A. tricuspidata, 

 Berberidopsis corallina, Crata3gus pyracautha, Calycunthus m:icrophyllus, Chimo- 

 nanlhus fragrans, Cydonia japonica, Jasminum nudiflorum, J. officinale grandi- 

 florum, Euonymus radicans variegata, Stauntonia latil'clia, and Ivies, green and 

 variegated, ad lib. 



WoiiMs IN Compost. — B. W. — There is one infallible method of treating 

 potting stuff if suspected of containing vermin of any kind, and that is to make the 

 pots ready a day before they are to be used, and water the soil in them with boiling 

 water. Scald also as niucli as you will want for filling in. Next day it will be 

 none too moist to work \\ ith, and there will not be a live creature in it. A dose of 

 boiling water round the wuod-work of the bin will clear away wood-lice, and as for 

 the stuff heaped up in the open air, eaithworms will do it more good than harm, as 

 long as it lies together. Earthworms should never be ruthlessly destroyed : they 

 are appointed by nature to ventilate the subsoil, by boring in its channels for the 

 admission of air. On grass they may be ejected when troublesome by means of 

 lime-water. 



Asphalting Garden Walks. — R. G. — To asphalte j'our walk, make a good 

 firm bottom of stones or other hard material, then mix two parts of dry lime rubbish, 

 and one part coal-ashes together, and sift out all the rough stuff. Put it in a heap, 

 make a hole in the centre, and pour into it the gas-ti>r boiling hot. Mix all 

 thoroughly together, and when about the consistency of mortar spread it over the 

 walk, about three inches thick. Make it level as the work proceeds, and sprinkle 

 sand over it. When cold ruu a roller over it, and in a day or two it will be set as 

 hard as iron. 



Peaks por Pyramids. — G. A. G. — The following selection of pears will furnish 

 a supply of ripe fruit from July to May, and will all succeed as jiyramids on the 

 quince stock: — Doyeni;ed'Ete, Jargonelle, Williams's Bon Chieti''n, Beurre Superfin, 

 Louise Boiine of Jersey, Beurre Hardy, Marie Louise, Autumn Nelis, Winter Nelis, 

 Beurre d'Aremberg, Josephine de Mahnes, Bergamotte d'Esperen, Huyshe's Victoria, 

 Glou Morceau, Knight's Monarch, Easter Beurre, Forelle, Madame Millet. Select 

 healthy vigorous trees, and plant as soon as possible. 



