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case of roses, two or three feet in width 



Various. — X. T. Z. — Your outhouse with 



will be sufficient. Do we understand 

 you to propose to sow the surface of 

 your fruit-tree borders with grass after 

 they are planted ? Don't do that, if you 

 have an eye to their future well-doing, 

 and if you could possibly manage, the 

 trees would go on all the better if you 

 could avoid putting any sort of crop into 

 the border, as the digging and other 

 manipulations necessary to the culture 

 of the crops, would damage the roots of 

 the trees, which will all be upon or near 

 the surface. It may seem a waste of 

 ground, but you will be an ultimate 

 gainer. In giving a list of fruit-trees, 

 we shall confine ourselves to a small 

 selection of such as we can recommend 

 with entire confidence, and such as will 

 not ordinarily fail you. For south wall 

 — Peaches : Early Anne, Acton Scott, 

 Barrington, Noblesse (excellent), Violet 

 Hative (excellent), Red Magdalen. Nec- 

 tarines : Downton, Elruge (splendid), 

 Newington Early, Tawny, Violette 

 Hative. Your wall, 153 ft., will take 

 19 riders at 8 ft. apart, and 18 dwarf- 

 trained trees planted exactly between 

 them. By this mode of planting you 

 will cover the entire surface of your wall 

 in three years, and as the dwarf trees 

 require it, you can cut away the riders. 

 Plums for west wall— 20 riders, 19 

 dwarfs, say pears 19, plums 20. Plums : 

 Green Gage, Reine Claude de Bavay 

 (fine), Jefferson (great bearer, fine), 

 Kirkes (very fine), Peach-plum (very 

 rich), Orleans, Standard of England, 

 Denyer's Victoria (great bearer), Wash- 

 ington. You may with advantage plant 

 a Reine Claude de Bavay and a Peach- 

 plum on your south wall. Pears : 

 Beurre d'Amanlis, Easter Beurre, 

 Beurre Ranee, Bon Chretien, Williams, 

 Duchess d'Angouleme, Forelle, Louis 

 Bonne of Jersey (exquisite), Marie 

 Louise, Passe Colmar. Roses : Chene- 

 dole and Coup d'Hebe (two splendid 

 hybrid Chinas), Felicite Perpetue (a fine 

 evergreen). Hybrid perpetual, all 

 making good climbers — Auguste Mie, 

 General Jacqueminot, Gloire de Santhe- 

 nay, Jules Margottin, Lord Raglan, 

 Madame Furtado (exquisite), Madame 

 Knorr (fine), Senateur Vaisse, William 

 Griffiths. Strong-growing Bourbons — 

 Souvenir d'Malmaison, Acidalie. Three 

 hardy free-growing teas — Gloire de 

 Dijon, Devoniensis, Sombreuil."] 



western aspect may, no doubt, be made 

 very useful as a plant-house. At all 

 events, the aspect need be no impedi- 

 ment to its appropriation A. B. — 



Sour soil usually produces a surface of 

 liverworts, and acquires a dark colour, 

 and emits an unpleasant smell. Varie- 

 gated balmls best propagated in spring; 

 with proper care it may be done in the 

 open ground, as described in our paper 

 on instantaneous bedding in the "Garden 

 Oracle" of 1863, and in which also the 

 propagation of Cetastium by tbe same 

 method was advised. — Thorn. — Now is 

 the best time to pot a few of tbe Arum 

 roots. — Minnie may consult " Profitable 

 Gardening" for information on the 

 culture of asparagus. It is well to 

 manure the soil for cabbage worts 

 planted in autumn for use at the end 

 of the year; but for those to stand till 

 spring, manure should not be applied, 

 unless the ground is really in a poor 

 condition. Definite rules cannot be 

 given ; hence a little ambiguity some- 

 times in the directions. — T, T. H. — We 

 should gladly enter into the detail of 

 the dwarfing process were it really 

 applicable to the majority of private 

 gardens. We can well understand the 

 delightful appearance of the beds when 

 you saw them, but the question is how 

 did they look the whole season through? 

 Plants starved down to a diminutive size 

 will generally flower superbly for a 

 short season, and then either perish or 

 begin to grow and refuse to make 

 another bloom the whole season through. 

 Could you not obtain from the proprietor 

 or gardener some information? Soil and 

 situation have much to do with such 

 cases. — N. J. H. — Cestrum auruntiacum 

 is of easy culture where there is suffi- 

 cient heat, but it must have warmth, 

 and hence we do not think it will 

 answer as a window-plant. If grown 

 freely from the first, it is sure to flower 

 well at last. You might start Achi- 

 menes in the heated case, but you ought 

 not to begin till the middle of March; 

 then you would have all the summer 

 before you after removing them, and 

 you could keep them in the case till 

 they were considerably advanced. Try 

 Meteor, Sir Treherne Thomas, and Am- 

 broise Verschaffelt, and let us hear of 

 the result. For practical advice on the 

 subject, see Flobal World, April, 1863. 



