198 THE GARDENER. [April 1879. 



|Toticcs fa Correspondents. 



All business communications aud 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 fur 

 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. 



Stove. — 1. Polystichum mucronatum; 2. Pteris tremula. The other Ferns 

 we cannot recognise, being young fronds, and very much shrunk up in the car- 

 riage. 3. Too small a morsel to make out what it is, especially without a 

 flower. 4. A Mesembryauthemum, but without a flower cannot say which. 

 5. Begonia rosiflora. 6. Coronilla glauca. 2. Begonia carminata. 3. A 

 Begonia which we do not know. You seem to have confused the numbers. 



Beginner. — In your wet climate keep the bottom of your cold frame 6 

 iuches above ground-level and drain it well. Your hotbed may be sunk a 

 foot and a half, provided you can prevent water from standing in the site. 



G. C. H. — You should get some practical treatise on the Vine and study it, 

 as your questions pretty nearly require such to answer them. So far you have 

 done very well, but to tell you how to treat the Vines from now till the time 

 the crop is cut would pretty well fill our whole number. The best way to 

 nourish or "feed" your Vines is to dress with rich farmyard manure, and 

 water with the drainings of the same and guano-water alternately. Make up 

 the remainder of your border with brown loamy turf from an old pasture with 

 a cwt. of bones to every 5 or 6 cart-load, and make it 2\ ft. deep. This could 

 be done in autumn as soon as the crop is cut. G^t ' A Practical Treatise on 

 the Grape Vine,' published by Messrs William Blackwood & Sans, and it will 

 keep you right on all points. 



C. L. C. — The plants you name are herbaceous without doubt. 



Mrs Richards. — Chrysanthemums are best raised from cuttings annually, 

 and this should be done in January or February at latest. As you seem to be 

 in possession of old stools, we should advise you to divide them at once into 

 pieces with roots attached to them and pot them in rich soil. Some cuttings 

 may yet be struck. They will form blooming plants if not stopped too late in 

 the season. You will find full directions for their culture in the January and 

 February numbers of ' The Gardener ' of 1877. 



ERRATA. 



In last month's "Notes from the Papers," at page 119, for "indignant 

 attempt," read "malignant; " and for "quite a little ashamed," read "just a 

 little." Reader. 



