06 



THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



Suppose you bad just a dozen each of these 

 potted, you could at once plunge them in 

 the nine pairs of beds, six of each in a 

 bed, right and left all down, and make 

 the beds gay till you can put flowers in 

 them. Those we mention are kinds that 

 are eminently adapted for the purpose, 

 as they bear potting patiently and are of 

 a lively character, and may be had 

 cheap. Our own garden is always fur- 

 nished in winter with such things, and 

 we shall have to say something about 

 the system shortly. The volume on 

 "Garden Favourites" is out of print. 

 The book on the rose will be published 

 shortly. 



The Appeal. — Received for poor Botanist, 

 W. G., £1; W. D. T., 10s. 3d; M. G., 

 stamps, 2s. 6d.; D. P., 3s. 8d. We are 

 not less grateful than our poor client, 

 and we tender sincere thanks to those 

 friends who have responded so gene- 

 rously to our appeal. We now have the 

 pleasure to announce that a sufficient 

 sum has been raised to enable the reci- 

 pient to enter into business; the money 

 having been subscribed solely as a gua- 

 rantee fund to secure the payment of 

 the first year's rent, and the necessary 

 fittings of a shop for the sale of botanical 

 specimens. The subscription is there- 

 fore closed. 



Trichomanes radicans. — Rosa. — All your 

 failures with this rare fern, as well as 

 ■with Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense and 

 Todea pellucida, arise through giving too 

 much air. We can call to mind all the 

 difficulties we had to encounter in our 

 early days of fern-growing, and how by 

 degrees, and after much costly experience, 

 we learned that the golden rule in grow- 

 ing these rarities is not to give air at all. 

 Plant as directed in the books, and add 

 the rule we now give to the other rules 

 you have on the subject. 



Turning Vines out of the House. — I 

 intend building a 30-feet greenhouse, 



L and wish to grow grapes as well as 

 plants, but I have always heard that they 

 never do well together, because the 

 vines require to be hardened by exposure 

 for a couple of months in winter. I 

 therefore propose to leave boles up the 

 centre of the brickwork at each sash, and 

 put a rod of each vine up and through 

 the centre of the front wall-plate, also to 

 have the front lights hung on hinges, 

 with hooks inside and out, so as to hang 

 on either side of the upright. When 

 the lights are taken out, the vine- 

 rods can be easily removed through the 

 4-feet opening, and tied under the spout, 

 6ecure from drip and ice, and the lights 



hooked on the inside, leaving the green- 

 house free for plants without starting 

 the vines. May I request your considera- 

 tion of this plan and the benefit of any 

 suggestions in your next number. — X 

 [Not the slightest advantage will be 

 gained either to your vines or plants by 

 the plan you propose. By keeping your 

 vines always within the house, the wood 

 will become harder and riper than if ex- 

 posed to the open air during the two or three 

 dampest and darkest months in the year. 

 You may cultivate graphs to perfection 

 in a common greenhouse, and the worst 

 inconvenience the plants will suffer will 

 be, that the vines will be in leaf before 

 you can safe'y remove them to the open 

 air, and consequently, throughout the 

 month of May, will have more shade 

 than will be quite compatible with their 

 well-doing. We would recommend you 

 to cultivate none but the hardier green- 

 house plants, give abundant air when- 

 ever practicable, so as to retard as much 

 as possible the breaking of the vines, and 

 with proper management in other re- 

 spects your plants will go on satisfac- 

 torily. As soon as the shoots of your 

 vines are fairly developed and showing 

 fruit, a little fire-heat should be applied, 

 lighting your fire about one o'clock in 

 the day, and carried on till seven or 

 eight o'clock in the evening ; at the same 

 time, for the sake of your plants, giving 

 abundant air. The application of fire- 

 heat will promote the well-doing of your 

 vines, and when your plants are removed 

 to other quarters, an increase of heat may 

 be applied, and the house kept closer, 

 keeping the floor constantly wet, by 

 throwing water on it several times in the 

 day. Continue fire-heat and close treat- 

 ment till the fruit begins to colour, when 

 give more air, and the fruit and wood 

 will thus become thoroughly ripe.] 

 Various. — Miss K. R. — The iron hurdles 

 may be obtained of Mr. Hawkins, Dale 

 End, Birmingham. His address was 

 given when the hurdles were described. 

 J. Parsons. — Calystegia pubescens may 

 be obtained of any of the nurserymen 

 who advertise in this work. We never 

 recommend dealers. You must have 

 plants; it does not produce seed. Loam 

 is intermediate in consistence between 

 clay and sand. Most garden soils are 

 called loam. The last question would 

 be answered on the wrapper, if thought 

 desirable to answer at all. — A. B. — Ask 

 a cooper, or send the query where the 

 other paper went. — IF. R. C. — Apply to 

 Messrs. Hooper and Co., Coveut Garden, 

 London, W.C. 



