434 THE GARDENER. [Sept. i8i 



buy others later from parts where from four to six to each bunch 

 disease is little experienced. The matted growth ruins the crop. Put 



main crop of Onions may be well for- 

 ward and can be lifted, dried, and 

 stored : an open shed, thoroughly 

 dry, we have found to be the best 

 store for Onions. Frost will not hurt 



in cuttings for winter work. Ridge 

 Cucumbers, Gherkins, and Vegetable 

 Marrows may be kept long in bearing 

 by using protection at night : frost 

 puts an end to these tender things. 



the bulbs if they are thoroughly dry. French Beans are also a crop easily 

 Beware of allowing the Onion crop to ■ injured. Sowings in pits may be 

 remain in the ground after it is ready made to give a late autumn supply, 

 for pulling : second growth might take j and successions kept up by sowing 

 place, then good keeping would be every two or three weeks. Mushroom- 

 unknown. Turnips — thin, clean, and beds may be made as formerly advised, 

 hoe, and get useful tubers before the i Small beds made often are the most 

 growing period is at an end. Toma- certain method of keeping regular sup- 

 toes should now be gone over often, i plies. Potatoes may now be started 

 and disbudded, thinning the fruit to I for early winter supplies. M. T. 



All business communications and all Advertisements should be addressed to 

 the Publishers, and communications for insertion in the ' Gardener ' to David 

 Thomson, Drumlanrig Gardens, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. It will further 

 oblige if all matter intended for publication, and questions to be replied to, 

 be received by the 14th of the month, and written on one side of the paper 

 only. It is also requested that writers forward their name and address, not 

 for publication unless they wish it, but for the sake of that mutual confidence 

 which should exist between the Editor and those who address him. We 

 decline noticing any communication which is not acsompanied with name and 

 address of writer. 



J. A. — In the case of your early vinery, fork into the surface of the border 

 a good dressing of bone-meal, and then apply about 3 inches of farmyard man- 

 ure. This should be applied at once. About the middle of October add a 

 covering of 6 or 8 inches of dry litter — Fern or straw^ — and the tarpaulin. 

 The later Vine-borders you can top-dress with bone-meal and manure in No- 

 vember or December ; and if your Vines are in need of more feeding, remove the 

 winter dressing when the Grapes are set or thinned and apply a fresh one. 



A Learner. — Transplant your Gooseberry and Currant bushes immediately 

 they drop their leaves. A paper in our present issue supplies the other infor- 

 mation you ask for. 



A. M. S. — We suspect the evil is caused by an escape of sulphureous gas from 

 the furnace in some way or other. See if there are any openings round the hot- 

 water pipes where they pass from the boiler into the house, and if there are, 

 stop them. 



L. Y. — You should have put Gros Colmar Vine in your Muscat-house, and 

 the Duke at the warm end of your Hamburg-house. At the setting period 

 the former requires quite a Muscat heat to do it really well, and the latter a 

 little more warmth than is necessary for Black Hamburgs. 



W. C. N. — The dropping of leaves is very common this year. Green-fly 

 earlv in the season and the cold wet summer have caused it. 



