JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



[ January 11, 1873. 



Other. Air in a mixed house should be most freely given 

 opposite the hariUest aud most backward blooming pUuits. 

 li a mixed house, therefore, it is well to place the plants m 

 groups, which will reciuire similar attention, -fottrng nas 

 chiefly been confined to Pelargoniums, Ferns, Gloxmias, and 

 picking-out some Achimenes and Gesneras to come m ea,rly. 

 Placed some Azaleas where they would be forced gently into 

 bloom. Shrubs taken up and potted for forcing, will be much 

 helped if the pots are plunged in the open air m a mild hotbed, 

 80 as to root afresh before the heads receive much heat.— ±4. J; . 



TRADE CATALOGUES EECEIVED. 



Downie, Laird, & Lainp, 17, South Frederick Street;^ Edin- 

 burgh, and Slu. I. .1 T,nl<, Forest HiU, London, S.E.--D.scn^- 

 iiveCataloa '< , Flower, and AgnciMural Seeds £c. 



Chariesiv, , i: ^ni-sevieL.SlousL-Catalogue of Seeds 



for the Eitcin a ';</■'' r. J'lower Garden, and Farm. 



E. P. Dixou, 57, Queen Street, UnO..— Catalogue of Seeds for 

 the Farm and Garden. . , „ „ t t tv p 



Dick Eadclyffe & Co., 129, High Holborn, London, W.C.— 

 Spring Catalogue of Vegetable, Agricultural, and Flower heeds, 



Butler & McCuUoch, Covent Garden Mai-ket, London W.C— 

 Spring Catalogue of Seeds for the Kitchen Garden, and Flower 

 Garden, <ic. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



• * We request that no one will write privately to any of the 

 ' correspondents of the " Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Ooimtry Geutlemau." By so domg they 

 are subjected to imjustifiable trouble aud expense. All 

 communications should therefore be addi-essed solelij to 

 The Editors of the Journal of Horticulture, lic, 171, Fleet 

 Street, Loyidon, E.G. . 



We also request that correspondents will not mix up on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardemng and those on 

 Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get them 

 answered promptly and conveniently, but write them on 

 separate communications. Also never to send more than 

 two or three questions at once 



-They 



heat up, a good deal of i 



^_^ very good. You lifld l)etter 



itce olTlio Boyal Horticultural Society. 



Seedling Gloxinias {T.C.I 

 send specimens to the Floral Co] 

 It wiU meet on the 17tli. 



Grapes Shanked (H. O., Chichester-,.— The bunch Bent is totaUy shwiied, 

 and it is ei-ident from yonr query that the ahanMng arises from a deficient 

 supply of sap, and thot deficiency is caused by the mside border bemg kept 

 diT "When the Vines are about to be started, thoroughly soak the border 

 •with tepid verr weak Uquid maniure, mulch the surface, and water moderately 

 once a-weei during the season of growth. Treat the Peach border smularly. 



Select Feoits {J. i.).— These will all " come in one after the other." 

 Twelve Pear«.-Citron des Carmea, Jargonelle, Benrre dAmanlie, Lomse 

 Bonne of Jersey, Seckle, Van Mons Leon Leclerc, Doyenne du Comice, Beurre 

 Bosc, ForeUe, "Winter Nelis, Gloa Mori;eau, Bergamotte Esperen. neelye 

 Apples for Xlcsscrf.— Early Harvest, Devonshire Quarrenden, Keny Fippm, 

 Feam'e Pippin, TeUow Ingestrie, Golden "Winter Pearmam, Cos s Onmge 

 Pippin, Golden Heinette, Adams's Pcarmain, Cockle Pippin.Manmngtom 

 ~ ' Sturmer Pippin. Twelve Eitclun Appl 



Core- 



ci*iujttui jviuujci... ..A * i-^ -Keswick Codliu, Stirling 



cSle, Lord stiffleld.'oj^s Pomram, Ccilini," Bedfordshire Foundling, Emperor 

 Alexander, Mere de Menage, Vl'arner's King, Yorkshire Greemng, Alfnston, 

 Norfolk Beefing. Twelve P«acfie«.— Early Rivers, Eaily Beatrice, Eariy Grosse 

 Mignonne, Dr. Hogg, Early York, Grosse Mignonne, Eoyal George, Noblesse, 

 Bellegarde, Barrington, "Walburton Admirable, Lord Palmerston. 



BmENS ATBOPUEPDREA (Gootiiifss).— Botanists have no plant so named, but 

 some nurserymen call Cosmos diversifolius I'or. atrosanguineus by that -"— « 

 It is not a glaring blunder, for Bidens, Coreopsis, and Cosmos are allies, 

 opsis coronata is a native of Texas, whence it was sent by Mr. Di-un 

 the Boval Horticultural Society's coUector, in 1885. Its speclflo name, coro- 

 nata, refers to the circle of crimson splashes on the petals, -which have the 

 appearance of a coronet. 



LiBELLrao (J. J.).— It is not usual to prefix the name of the kind of fruit 

 BrashinK the bark with a strong brine made by dissolving common salt m 

 water wiH remove the green moss. 



"Wheue to Move to {A Bcrfcshircmnn).— The query related esdusivsly to 

 a gardener's employment. But we cannot aid you. Anywhere within forty 

 miles of Loudon and near a railway station -would suit your purpose. 



DEFEcm-E Flue-heating. — "I cannot yet understand how to make 

 my flue lire bum for auv length of time. ' I suspect that mine is radi- 

 cally wrong. The flue runs the length of the home, and returns to the same 

 spot for the chimney. The fireplace is outside the house, and has nothing 

 to separate it from the flue, so that the fuel could be driven the whole 

 length of the house it one thought proper. Then they talk of the ashpit 

 doors. The fuel rests upon bars, -with nothing underneath them, entiSely 

 «pen to the air. As it is, the fire rages furiously when the door is open, 

 and lasts for a few hours. If the door be left open the fire goes out."— 

 H. L. "W." , , , . 



[There is no doubt that your furnace lor the flue is -wrongly constructed. 

 All you have to do is to lower the furnace, so that the fires may be from 18 to 

 24 inches below the level of the bottom of the flue. Have an ashpit, say at 

 least a foot in depth, beneath the" bars, and have a close-fitting door 

 -with a ventilator in it. Leave the ashpit door open imtil the fire 



must he left on the ashpit door. "When the heat 



lowcombustion will be sufficient, and that must be regulated from 

 the ashpit door.] 



Fenn's O.ntvaed Potato (Pofaio-Zancicr).— It requires generous cultivation 

 and is especially suitable for garden ground. Apply to the Messrs. Veitoh, 

 Eoyal Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea, S.W. 



Plants not TimrvrNG in Consekvatoey iBeeehwood). — "We can only 

 account for the plants doing so indifferently, from the house not being adapted, 

 for flowering plants in winter. "We do not wonder at the Camellias castmg 

 their buds. Chrysanthemums hall expanded -when put in never fully opening 

 and Cineniria flower-buds bUnd. The house is glazed with thick frosted 

 glass, than which nothing looks so pretty, and than -w-hich nothing is more 

 unsuitable for flowering, nor, indeed, any kind of plants in -winter, and m 

 summer only suitable for flowerless plants, or those requiring shade. .Rough 

 plate, or that ground on one side, is sufficient to diffuse the sun's rays; frosteo 

 glass prevents the passage of light to too great an extent. The fault W8 

 should say is in the gas-pipe, from which we think there must be an escape. 

 The water you allude to will not injure the plants; at least our supply is from 

 iron pipes. 



Croton pictum and variegatxtm Losing theib Lea-ves {An Inquirer), 

 — The cause of leaves falling from the young growths is the imperfect ripen- 

 ing of the wood, due to a deficiency of heat and light ; and considering the 

 amount of light and heat the plants have been exposed to, we think they have 

 been too copiously watered. Crotons require an abundance of light and no 

 shade in summer in order to colour well. Keep them dry from the present 

 time up to March, not allowing the leaves to fall from want of water, and 

 then you may cut them back if straggling, keeping them rather dry in » 

 bottom heat of from 75 to 8()=,andnot potting untU the plant has broken, then 

 repot. Keep Allamanda nobilis dry, and cut back to firm wood in February, 

 repotting after it begins to gn>w. 



Placing Hyacinths in Heat {An Old Suhteriber).—The Hyacinths which 

 you have had out of doors, covered two months with coal ashes, we should 

 remove at once, and place near the glass in a house -with a temperature ol 

 from 4(r to 45" at night, and 45= to 50^ by day from fire heat. A stove -with a 

 temperature between 65= aud 70= would bring them forward too rapidly, but 

 on a shelf near the glass they would not be so liable to become drawn, and 

 might flower fairly, hut we behove they would only do moderately well. 

 They would flower much better without heat if the roots were merely pro- 

 tected from frost. Sj-ringing with very hot water wiU not kill thrips, and il 

 warmer than 140= it -wU] injure the Azaleas. Syringe them with tobacco 

 water, made by pouring half a gallon of boiling water on an ounce of the 

 strongest shag tobacco. Cover over closely, let the Uquid stand untU cool, 

 then strain, aud sj-ringe the plants on the under sides of the leaves. Instead 

 of using this you may dilute the tobacco water of the shops -with six tunes lt» 

 volume of water, and syringe the plants. 



Callas not Flowering (Papanini).— "We are not surprised at the plants 

 not meeting your wishes, lor you expect too much. They will not flower agam 

 imtil from March to May, and we should now keep them rather dry, not allow 

 the foliage to suffer, aud place them in a temperature ol not more than 43 

 to 50= for six weeks ; then encourage them with plenty of water, and a tem- 

 perature of from 50' to 55', and we think yon wiU have as fine a sprmg as you 

 appear to have had an autumn bloom. 



Uses of S31.1LL Frames (C. L. X).).— Your frames S feet wide, 2 feet Binchea 

 high at back, and 1 foot 6 inches in front, with glass tops, fronts, and ends, 

 the backs and bottoms of wood, will be useful for many purposes ; but we do 

 not see any necessity for a ghiss front or glass end. -Wood would be better, 

 as it is not so liable 'to be damaged as glass, and there is no necessity for a 

 bottom of auv kind. Such a frame would be useful for placing over a gentle 

 1 hotbed intended for raising half-hardy annuals as Ten- week Stocks and Asters, 

 for hordening-off bedding plants pre-vdous to planting-out, for placmg over 

 Lettuce or Cauliflower plants in winter, or for anything needing protection; 

 and in summer you might grow Cucumbers or Melons on a gentle hotbed, 

 nuttin" out a plant at every 6 feet of length. Achapesnorrischer Me'.on is a 

 good sort to be sown in a hotbed, planted out on a little bottom heat, and to 

 be corered with glass at least up to July. In every respect it requires the 

 treatment of ridge Cucumbers and is the better of glass, which may be raised 

 so as to allow the Vines to come under it, elevating the frame or glass at the 

 comers which will protect or throw off heavy rains from the collar of the 

 plants. ' They arc impatient of wet on their stems. The flavour is good. 



Evergreens under LmE Trees {Inquirer}.— Xs the Lime trees are so 

 very close together, we fear the ground will be so matted with roots as to 

 prevent any undergrowth. The Lesser Periwinkle (Vinca minor) would give 

 a close green covering, and the common Ivy (Hedera Hehx) will grow where 

 scarcely anything else will. Common Laurel pegged down might answer, and 

 the Aucuba -will grow where Laurels faa. Butchers' Broom and Spurge Laurel 

 are also good. 



Period of Resting Vines (J. B. Jones).— From the time the leaves laU 

 untU the Vinos start into giowth, two months should be aUowed. Prune as 

 soon as the leaves are off. They are the better of three months rest. 



Muscadine Grapes not Ripening— Appli-ing Salt (IT. Fov).-The most 

 UkelT cause of the fruit not ripening is the shade of the Black Hamburgh , 

 it is useless to try to grow Vines under Vines. Give them equal advantages 

 and the Muscadine -nlll ripen its fruit as well as the Hamburgh. Twelve 

 bunches are too many for a Vine just commencmg beanng. Ten bushels 

 ol salt per acre will be a sufficient dressmg. 



cstab- 



This -will be exactly two quarts 

 Tt will be of no use now, except to save the plants from frost, aud 

 we do not advise it to be apphed until March. 



Tar on Hot-water Pipes (.4 Constant Reader).— H your hot-water pipes 

 are painted with tar, your only remedy is to take them out, moke up a fire of 

 brushwood, and buii the tar off. The scum on the ram-water tank is uu- 

 nbtldTy owing to the gas tar. No plant wiU thrive in the house «» long «B 

 the tar remaini on the heated pipes. If the pipes have been coated -with a 

 mixture of tar or varnish and oU point, you may dip cloths m a »olji''on OJ 

 ^ft soan 8 ozs. to the gaUon, and wrap them round the pipes for forty-eight 

 hours keeping t^^m saturated with the solution, and the pamt may peel off; 

 but we think your only remedy will be burmng it off. r.„„„.„ii 



ERRATUM --At page 16, sLvth Une from the end of "ExPERTO Ckede 3 

 remarks on the Gladiolus, for "improved" read unprot'eii new. 



OVER-LUXURUNT REINE HOBTENSE ChERRY {E P.).-AB yOf .^'^f^J^^fi 



soms freely it would do it no good to lilt it. Keep the tree nailed_ :to_ Jb?,':^ 

 the usnal i 



do all the traming aud thinnmg of the young shoots i 



lished-and-then kTep-the-fumace door' shut, and aUow just as much air'ai ^^C^- -"^'^t "^iYsucc'eed'^S^yo^rJ^tof'of ttf^ ^° 



the ashpit door as wiU support sloiv combustion. Of course until you get the I shy bearer. If it will not succeed wiiu you, ome 



