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THE GARDENER. 



[Oct. i88i. 



in growth and well hardened to stand 

 against severe frost. Potato-lifting 

 should be finished as early as circum- 

 stances will allow. They keep always 

 well in Potato-pits, placed where water 

 will not harbour about them. Dry 

 airy shelves suit well for stock to be 

 saved for planting. They should be 

 separated from those which are for 

 domestic use. Vegetable forcing will 

 have already commenced in well- 

 appointed gardens. French Beans 

 coming into flower should have liberal 

 supplies of air and all the light pos- 

 sible. Plant successions every fort- 

 night, always being guided by the 

 demand and means to grow them : 

 heat about C0° at night suits them, 

 with a rise of sun-heat, Seakale and 

 Rhubarb may now be placed in heat, 



the former kept close from air, As- 

 ])aragus may be lifted when ready 

 and placed on a bed or warm leaves 

 about 70" to 80°, and covered with 

 light rich soil, watered when dry, 

 and when the produce is in full 

 growth give y»]enty of light and air. 

 Carrots may again be sown in frames 

 when they are wanted young. They 

 do best in light sandy loam. They 

 must not be coddled for want of air. 

 Mushrooms may be abundant now. 

 They require little attention at this 

 season out of doors, further than a soft 

 covering of litter : make beds often, 

 using good manure not exhausted. 

 Tomatoes in bearing under glass may 

 be treated as those outside : allow 

 them plenty of light and air. 



M. T. 



Notices fcr C0iTcsp0ntrcnts» 



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 accompanied with name and 

 address of writer. 



Subscriber. — 1. Asplenium demorphum ; 2. Pteris longifolia; 3. Cannot 

 recognise ; 4. Lycopodium or Selaginella Wildenova ; 5. Blechnum spicant ; 

 6, Rheedia glaucescens ; 7. a Cystis, but not beiD-^ in bloom cannot say 

 which; 8. Centradenia rosea ; 9. Pteris tricolor; 10, Adiantum cuneatum. 



E RRA T A. 



In our report of the Stirling Show, Mr Daniel Kennedy informs us that he, 

 and not Mr Liddell, was first for Black Currants. 



Mr Ferguson, Blackford Park, Edinburgh, informs us that his late brother 

 planted the large vine at Speddock in 1840, so that it is not so old as repre- 

 sented in our September issue. 



