1879.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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Green House and House Gardening. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Out door gardening will soon claim so much 

 attention and excite so much interest that the 

 house plants will not receive as much looking 

 after as formerly. It often becomes a question 

 what to do with them during the Summer sea- 

 son. The general plan is to set the pots out in 

 some partially shaded place during the Summer 

 season where they can be regularly watered and 

 looked after. If one is an adept at potting 

 plants, many of them may be turned out of their 

 pots and planted in the open ground. In this 

 case it is best to prune the plants a little and re- 

 duce the ball of earth a little, or they will re- 

 quire so much larger pots next September when 

 they are to be repotted, and will have grown 

 much too large for the space they are to occupy. 

 A friend of ours plants out even his camellias, 

 azaleas and similar plants that are usually kept 

 the whole season in pots, and with great success. 



Moving out in the open ground is at any rate 

 one of the very best things to do with sickly 

 plants. Prune them in well, set them out and 

 let them take care of themselves, will generally 

 result in a good healthy growth of young wood. 

 Oranges, lemons, oleanders, camellias, azaleas, 

 palms and ferns even may be treated in this way. 



Except south of the Potomac, April is how- 

 ever a little early to speak of setting out plants. 

 It is seldom any of this is done in the Northern 

 States before the first of May, and hardly then 

 in many cases. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



ROSE CULTURE FOR WINTER BLOOMING. 



^Y MR. WM. BENNETT. 



Prize Essay, offered by Mr. Peter Henderson, read before 

 the New York Horticultural Society. 



' (Concluded from page 74.) 



No. 8. Temperature. — The temperature should 

 never range higher than from 50° to 55° degrees, 

 Fahrenheit, by night. In day time from 75° to 

 85° or 90° with sun heat, with plenty of air does 

 no harm. 



[ No. 9. Ventilation. — This should be done with 

 j great care, keeping a sharp eye to the sudden 

 I changes that take place outside, so as not to let 

 your plants receive any sudden check ; but give 

 air at all convenient opportunities. On some 

 ' days in the winter season when there is a strong 

 wind blowing, it is almost impossible to give air. 

 ] In preference to admitting the cold air, take the 

 I hose and give them a good syringing. 

 I No. 10. Treatment of Marechal Neil. — I would 

 pursue the same general treatment as laid down 

 for the other kinds as to border, manure water, 

 ventilation, &c. In pruning, however, you should 

 aim to get plenty of fine young shoots to lay in, cut- 

 ting out all old scrubby wood each year and lay- 

 j ing in new shoots. The wood of the Neil requires 

 j to be thoroughly ripened before starting. Be 

 ; sparing of fire heat till they are fairly under way. 

 No. 11. Treatment of Jacqueminot. — The best 

 method of treating Jacqueminot, is to plant 

 j them out of doors in a bed of the size you intend 

 to cover with glass. Let them grow for at least 

 ' one year in the open ground before building your 

 house over them. The house should be built 

 ' with sash, so that you may strip it at pleasure, 

 1 leaving the plants exposed to the open air till 

 ' the time for starting. In starting the Jacque- 

 minot house, be cautious not to give too much 

 fire heat. Commence with a night temperature 

 of 45° of Fahrenheit for the first two or three 

 weeks, then increasing to 50° as the young 

 ' growth advances, giving plenty of air at all 

 convenient opportunities. 



No. 12. Cultivating Roses in Pots for Winter 

 Blooming. — To do this successfully it needs extra- 

 ordinary care and labor in comparison with 

 roses planted out in the open border. To have 

 fine plants for blooming in the winter, you must 

 strike your cuttings as early in the season as pos- 

 sible. From the time the cutting is rooted until 

 it has filled an eleven or twelve-inch pot with 

 roots, it should never be allowed to become 

 pot-bound or stunted. Shift on all tlirough the 

 summer months, doing this as often as the young 

 roots show through the soil, until your, twelve- 

 inch pot is well filled with roots, which will be 

 by the middle of September. If all has gone on 

 right, less water should now be given so that the 

 wood may have a chance to ripen, taking care 



