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mulching of horse-droppings and loam. 

 Keep them moderately moist, and with 

 a night temperature ranging from 

 70° to 75". Those sown last month 

 ■will be ready to plant out soon after 

 the middle of the month. Give them 

 soil composed of turfy rather light 

 loam, enriched with a little old ISIush- 

 room-bed material. Grow them on 

 with a good supply of air, so that they 

 may make a strong firm growth, and be 

 the more able to go successfully through 



the duller and damper weather which 

 awaits them. 



Strawberries in pots. — Still con- 

 tinue to prevent these from rooting 

 through their pots into the material 

 they are standing on. Keep them 

 free from runners and weeds, and water 

 with manure- water. If they are at all 

 crowded give them more room, so that 

 light and air can play freely about 

 their foliage and crowns. 



Ifoficcs ia Corrcsj^anirciifs, 



Erratum.— Page 352, line 5, for "Mr H. Luke " read " Mr H. Tuke." 

 All business communications and all Advertisements should be addressed to 

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

 Thomson, Drimilanrig 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 w^riter. 



A Novice. — The proper time to bud Vines on the dovetail system is in spring, 

 after the Vines have broken into leaf, and there is no chance of the Vines 

 bleeding. Keep the grafts or young growths from which the buds are to be 

 taken in some cool shady place laid in some soil, so that they may remain dor- 

 mant till the stock is in leaf. The best union, however, in the case of Vines, is 

 formed when both stock and scion are growing, and by uniting green wood to 

 green, 



S. M. — If your subsoil is clay, concrete, by all means. But place about 8 

 inches of broken bricks or stones over the concrete, and give a good slope to the 

 front. And, running parallel with the extreme front of the border, and a foot 

 below the general level of the concrete, have an efficient drain with a good fall, 

 and pile up over this drain to the level of the rest of the site with broken stones. 

 In your wet locality a third of the border should be above the ground-level. 



Erica. — Lift the whole of your heath from the bed, and trench it, and if 

 possible add some fresh peat or sandy soil and leaf mould; then divide your 

 old plants, cut off portions of the old stumpy roots, and plant them much 

 deeper than they were before, and keep them moist. This process will dwarf 

 them, and they will root afresh on the young wood, and grow more fresh and 

 vigorous. 



P. R — Fillbasket, Carter's Prolific, and Cuthbert's Prince of TVales, are all 

 good Raspberries. The latter is an excellent variety, and grows and bears well 

 wherever we have seen it. They can be planted as soon as they have shed 

 their leaves — at least shed them all but a few at the top of the canes. Trench 

 deeply and manure heavily. 



