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THE OARDENER'S MONTHLY 



{^November, 



Gnrdener's Monihhi I rtm a constant reader of it, 

 as my eniployoi-s luivc always taken it. In the 

 la«t number, a correspondent inquired as to soil 

 causing Irish Junipers to change their habits. 

 You say you do not know that soil makes any 

 diflerenco in tlie compactness of their growtli, 

 but I am fully convinced it does. Bef<ire I came 

 to this place, in Caroline county, Md., I worked 

 for R. Peters, at Wilmington, Del. He had 

 Junipers of very compact growth, and all his 

 grew in this way. A lot of young plants raised 

 from them and sent to us here have made trees 

 of spreading habits, so much so as to be more 

 like Swedish Junipers in this respect than like 

 the Irish. The soil here is a light loam. It is 

 not uncommon for the Irish .Juniper to lose its 

 compact growth when transplanted into other 

 soils. Your notes on Early Peaches were very 

 interesting to me. Every section of the country 

 seems to have a candidate for the position of the 

 earliest. There will be one from our town, of 

 course, when the time comes, as we must not be 

 behind the age. Williams' Early is its name. 



Preserving Roses in Winter. — L. F., Belle- 

 ville, Illinois, writes : — My last year's query of 

 protection of Tea Roses — to cover such with coal 

 ashes — I have tested, and the result has proved 

 satisfiictory. All tender Roses, Pampas Grass, 

 Oleanders and Tritomas I bent to the ground 

 and covered entirely with coal ashes. With the 

 exception of a few very small Tea Roses, they 



stand the Winter very well. Coldest day, 0° 

 below zero. 



Standing Cypress. — A. G., a lady amateur, 

 says that unless this Cypress is wintered in com- 

 pact soil it will freeze out ; or that having a loose 

 soil in her garden, she was not able to keep 

 hor plant.-^ during their first Winter. Early in 

 March, when sowing seeds in advance for her 

 garden, she mistook the Seed of Standing Cypress 

 for those of another plant, and sowed them. 

 She soon discovered her mistake, but saved the 

 plants, and in due time transferred them to the 

 garden, where, to her .surprise, they grew quite 

 tall and bloomed finely the same Summer (this 

 1877), and when the writer saw them in August 

 they were nearly or quite three feet in height. 

 As it is, in some situations, exceedingly difficult 

 to keep them through the first Winter, would it 

 not be well to try the plan, accidentally discover- 

 ed, which assures success? 



Cut-leaved Grape. — A Denison, Texas, cor- 

 respondent writes : — I send enclosed a leaf to 

 know if it is that of Ampelopsis incisa, true. 

 Parties are selling it for that here. The leaf 

 does not seem to me so thick as one would ex- 

 pect from your description in the Gardener's 

 Monthly. 



[The leaf sent appeared at first like the Am- 

 pelopsis bipinnata, but it is really a cut-leaved 

 variety of the European grape, and not Ampe- 

 lopsis incisa. — Ed.] 



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^REEN MOUSE AND MOUSE GARDENING. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



The greenhouse will now begin to look more na- 

 tural, after having had the stock housed last 

 month. With many plants having probably been 

 taken up out of the open ground, many dead 

 leaves will daily appear, requiring frequent remo- 

 val; neatness is one of the chief beauties of a 

 greenhouse. Acacias, and Australian plants gen- 

 erally, with hard wood and delicate^roots, should 

 be placed at the coolest end of the house, where 

 little water will be required. These plants 

 should not be watered often ; but when they are, 

 it should be thorough. Frequent waterings soon 



render the roots of these plants unhealthy, when 

 it is very difficult to restore them to vigor. 

 Whenever the foliage becomes of sickly yellow 

 hue, the best plan is to plunge the plant in a 

 larger pot, filling the space with moss, — and 

 when the plant requires water, give it only 

 through the moss, unless the plant seem to be- 

 come so dry as to suffer, when it should receive 

 one thorough watering. Very little fire should be 

 applied to a greenhouse, — just sufficient to keep 

 it about 45°. Unless very far north, but little 

 fire-heat will be required this month. 



Window plants should not be kept very warm 

 at this season. They should have all the sun 



