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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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every second watering may be with 

 manure-water, until they begin to colour. 

 Introduce succession-batches of plants 

 into heat. Peach-houses or vineries 

 now being started suit the starting of 

 Strawberries also where no regular 

 Strawberry-pits exist. Keep the plants 

 near the light. Look out for green-fly 

 on all that have been heated for a 

 time, and fumigate with tobacco when 

 it first ajjpears. Do not fumigate when 

 the plants are in bloom. 



Melons. — Those sown last month 

 will be ready to plant out this month. 

 If in dung-frames or pits, plant two in 

 the centre of each light on a ridge of 

 soil. As the roots advance to the sides 

 of the ridge, add soil by degrees. Grow 

 with as little water at the root as pos- 

 sible, and beware of scorching in 

 changeable weather. The night tem- 

 perature, with coverings on the 

 glass, should be about 70°. Presum- 

 ing that the plants have been stopj^ed 

 before being planted, they will now 



have three young shoot seach. Train 

 these regularly over the bed, and stop 

 them when they reach to within a foot 

 of the sides of the frame. The lateral 

 growths will show fruit. Sow twice this 

 month for succession-crops, as directed 

 last month. 



Cucumbers.— See last month's di- 

 rections regarding those now in bearing. 

 Those sown in January will be ready 

 to plant this month. Let the soil be 

 composed of two parts fresh loam and 

 one part leaf-mould or very rotten dung. 

 If to be grown on trellis in Cucumber- 

 houses, plant them 2 feet apart, and 

 train the leader without being stopped 

 till it grows 4 feet, but stop the lateral 

 growths at every joint. Ptange the 

 night temperature at 70°. Give a little 

 air every day, and shut up early with 

 sun-heat. Keep them steadily moist 

 at the root with water at 85°. Sow 

 about the middle of the month for 

 later crops. 



The Editor has to express his regret that several valuable papers are unavoid- 

 ably postponed till next month. 



All business communications and all Advertisements should be addressed to 

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

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

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

 forwarded by the middle 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. 



Erratum. — In paper on Clematis, page 32 of January number, 9 lines from 

 top, for " 300 " read " 1300." 



Amateur.— No. 1. Hypericum montanum. 2. Hypericum pulchrum. 3. Poly- 

 gala vulgaris. 4. We do not recognise. It is most difficult to make anything 

 of such dried-up morsels. Plant your Liliums at once in half loam, half well- 

 decayed manure, with a fifth part of sand. 



A Subscriber. — In your climate we would recommend a good brick wall as 

 being a better absorber of heat than a light-coloured one. A cemented wall 

 wired is not so warm for the trees as an ordinary brick wall without wires. Li 

 other respects it would give many advantages 



