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JOURNAL OF HOETICULTUBK AND COTTAGE GARDENEE. 



[ March 28, 1872. 



That is the mode of obtainmg crimson heails like parasols. 

 Small heads may be obtained from plants in small pots and 

 dwarf iu proportion. — E. F. 



TEADE CATALOGUES EECEIVED. 



Dowuie, Laird, & Laiug, Staustead Park, Forest Hill, Lou- 

 don, S.E., and 17, South Frederick Street, Edinbiu-gh.— i)c5cr(>- 

 tivc Catalogue of Florhts' Flowers, ,0c. 



C. L. Alien & Co., 70, Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York.— 

 Spriiiij Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Bases, 

 Bedding Plants, Flowering Bulbs, Sc. 



Saxou uameof the eame plant, o^r^U aud seems to refer to its ever{,a-een state, 

 fi(tyst, being gieau as ffi'ass. "Syhin, another local name of the plant, is of old 

 British denvation ; ciMii is the Welsh for Fuize, and for anj-thing full of 

 prickles. 



FonclN-e Pump [A. .-i.).— Write to the Editor of " The EugUsh Mechanic; 

 andMiiTor of Science," Tavistock Street, Coveut Garden, London. 



Li\vx MowEES ( ir. L. ilf.).— .Vny of the lawn mowers that are advertised 

 in our I'a-'e^, which ai'e made by only the best manufactui-ers, are what wo 



n.r,;,i 1, '.:,;,,;. M'ItoU. 



1 .,-, A GiiEENHorsE PEACH Tkee U Constant Reader).— 



I . i ;ili a sheet like a tent, and put flowers of sulphxu- on a hot- 



V a' . I il ii I ii 1 Iccp the water iu it heated to about 160", and have" it imder 

 the tcut. 



PLOWEn Bordeh (.-l Fiislidioiis One).— We 

 better than have yo 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*,* We reiiuest that no one will write privately to any of the 

 correspondents of the " Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and expense. All 

 communications should therefore be addressed solely to 

 The Editors of the Journal of Horticulture, (&c., 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, B.C. 

 Books [.Horticultural IForfcs).— Johnson's "Science and Practice of 6ar- 

 denin"," '• The Garden Manual," and Keaue's " Out-door " and " In-door Gar- 

 dening." Each of the four works is small in price, and can be had at our 

 office. 



Auricula Seedlings Wi iJci'oii).— They will do as varieties for the border, 

 but they have no merit as florists' flowers. 1 



Planting Ssiall Flowek GAnrEN {A Reader).— Yi'e never undertake 

 planting, we only criticise that prop'^-^O'i ] 



Cyclamen not Flowering {A .S"' '. i -lo not say what the kind 



or kinds are, but we piesume thtv , ' r ' i' '"• By your own account 

 they are in the vinery on shelves ii.mi ih< -i i - "hich is about the worst 

 place conceivable for this plant. KiT-p ihiju ntll supplied with water until 

 the leaves begin to turn yellow, and alter May place them ui a cold frame, on 

 coal ashes, and water so as to keep the soil just moist. After June plunge the 

 pots in coal ashes in a di-j- situation and shielded from the midday rays of 

 the sun. Here they will not need water, and may remain until the middle of 

 August, when they should be turned out cf the pots carefully, as much of the 

 old soil removed as cau be done without injming the roots, and placed m pots 

 twice the diameter of the corms. Give the pots a good amount of drainage, 

 and in potting be careful to cover the corms entiiely with soil. A compost of 

 two parts fibrous light loam, one pai-t leaf soU, one part sandy peat, and 

 half a part each charcoal and silver sand, will gi-ow them well. Place them in 

 a cold frame and keen them just moist in all then- stages, but avoid watermg 

 excessively, or before' it is rejuii-ed. In September remove them to a house 

 with a temperatuT'e of 50" to 55 ', and place them about a foot to 15 inches 

 from the glass. Continue this treatment until they begin to flower, and then 

 remove them to a house with a temperatme of 45', where they will bloom for 

 a long time. 



SciKLET Bedding Geeanicms (C. S. ieu7.«or).— You may without fear 

 of disappointment pm-chase any of the following— Cybister, Stella, Trentham 

 Scarlet, Sutton's Scarlet Perfection, and Christine. 



CH.U.K AND Gravel foe Walks {New Suhucrihcr].—Mij chaik reduced 

 to a powder will answer. 



Pigeons' AND Fowls' Dung for Liquid Manure (St. Edmundi.—^on Ao 

 not inform us how much water you put in yoiu- eighteen-gallon cask with the 

 dung. We conclude it was a small ouimtity, and we apprehend it is now a 

 paste-like substance. To every gaUon of this add fifteen gaUons of water, and 

 it will be a most excellent and powerful liquid maume. On a south or east 

 border in yoiu- well-protected garden vou may sow Dwarf Kidney Beans from 

 the 16th to the ^Oth of April for a fli-st crop, but it not unfi-equently happens 

 that those sown at the beginning of May come in sooner. Sn- Joseph Faxton, 

 an improved kind of Sion House, is what we sow for an early crop; and for 

 succession crops Negio and Liver-coloured are both excellent sorts for out-door 

 cultivation. 



Buses i If. 11'.).— Youi- Bose is certainly not the Cloth of Gold. It has all 

 the appearance of being Safiano, from its buff-apricot colour- and hollow centre, 

 Satiauo is beautiful in bud but worthless when expanded. If it turns out to 

 be full to the centre it is Madame Falcot ; both are Tea Eoses. Safi'ano is a 

 vigorous growtr ; Madame Falcot is moderate in gl'owth, hut the flowers fuUer 

 to the centre, should the centre prove coppery it is Eeve d'Or. We beUeve 

 it to be Safranu. 



)»).— We think the projiosed planting is 

 .ould just suggest for your consideration, 

 and pm-ple Verbena would not be better of 

 and if the two beds, 5, 5, would not also be 

 the Golden Pyrethram. The second 



Viv fl" 



^i.i.U;. „ 

 gai'dens. 



do not see how you could do 

 :■ border filled with bulbs, Primi-oses, Daisies, and similar 

 Feraove them to a resen-e gi-ound, and fill their places with 

 ■ uiiiiiuns, &c., for the summer. You cannot well have more 

 I ■ lines on such a border, but you might anauge it in many 

 , cason differently. If you tell us yom' proposed plan, we will 

 ^u our opinion. 



cannot undertake to plant borders and 



;nts of Flower-beds iEttaj. — The 

 the gi-jups follow each other, the more easily we : 

 m a flower garden. Thus the centre of your gai-de 

 aiTangement depends not on 2, and 

 planted as you propose the gai'd^ 

 cases, with the except" 



n-e simply the numbers of 

 id the proposed planting 

 is l,but the fitness of the 

 10, 11, 13, and 13. Now, 

 would look well, but in the majority of 

 of 14 and 15, each group or clump is made to depend 

 u„ itself. Now it reijuues a high degree of taste to appreciate that mode, 

 whUst ahnost evei7body can see thi-ough pah or cross-planting— thus pairiu-,- 

 10 and 11 or crossuig 10 and 13, and 11 and 12, and so with the others. \\ e 

 think that cross-plantuig would be most effective— thus, 6, 9, and 8 and 7, 

 2 and 5 3 and 4, hut that is a matter of taste. Thus 14 and lo would he 

 paued, and they would be better alike. The row of Snow-flake round the 

 pm-nle iu one case would be no improvement next the Pyi-ethrum. ^\e can 

 understand a centre of Snowflake in the middle of each bed, smrounded -n-ith 

 Purple King in one case, and Ai-iosto "\'erhena in the other, and both edgtd 

 with Pn-etlu-um. With these remar-ks we think we shaU do you the best 

 service'by lettui-'you make another aiTangement, and if you send a pencilled 

 "roup or plan of the beds we will then criticise it. At present we wiU just 

 Took at the centre five beds. The centre, 1, is to he Mi-s. PoUock and Sunset, 

 bordered with Echeveria. Then two beds round it arc to be on the cross, 

 10 and 13, yeUow and orange Calceolaiia, and two others on the cross, 11 and 

 12 ai-e to be one a v,-llowish Tropffolum, and the other a yeUow Pansy ; so 

 thLt the centre and fbur beds round it will, mdependently of thcii- bordeiing, 

 be chiefly yeUow and orange. We think you can mix the colours better. 



Iron Pipe foe Flue (.V. H. B. i.).— We have Uttle faith in yom- sue 

 ceeiUng well iu heating a small Cucumber house with 

 and stiU less if the pipe is less than 9 mches in diarael 

 not only apt to get clogged-up, but to become too li'-t 

 great care of the fm-nace. We would on the whole i 

 iron one. How-ever, as you seem resolved to have (-ii- 

 16 feet long, we would have a small cesspool, say sli^ditl; i i!; - '■']-•'•■ "'e 6l2e 

 of the pipe at each end. for the ends of the pipe to go ndu and these places 

 if covered with a tile, could be opened at any tune, and a liaid brush l-nn along 

 the pipe . We have more faith m regulating ^haught m such a case by a 

 close-flttmg ashpit-door than in such proposed dampers. 



ipi'LviNii Sewage (i. M.).— Your most successful application of the 

 sewa-'c would be to aU giowmg crops as well as to meadow land. As you say 

 vou c°aun"t dn lluit, the less common water that mixes with the sewage the 

 better mil if n ■! ■ :v-c be poured on all mixtm-es of soil, sods, pai-mgs of 

 roads A- ■ •'■•■■ "-vered over every time with a Uttle earth, you will 



l,„.„u„ ,1 M II. and will secure a valuable heap of composite cut 



down au.l.'ii. ...cadow land m winter, -nhere spread, bush-haiTOwed, 



and then ioUeddo«u, it «iU be sm-e to teU favomably on the gi-ass crop. One 

 of the richest heaps of compost we ever saw was placed like yom^s at the oiei- 

 flow of a sewage drain. The heap consisted of parings of roads partly, but 

 chiefly of Couch Glass collected out of a field A few-^ loads of lime were 

 added to hasten and pcifect the decomposition of the Couch Glass A few 

 loads of sod m itsei\e thio-nn oiei the heap did all that was necessai-j m the 

 way of deodousatiou and kept the best gases fiom escapmg 



I \M 1-1 HM S III 1 Tit Ti,h llSVll " 



1 pipe for a flue, 

 a small pipe is 

 ;!:ii - yua take 



nt the B 



icoud pn,!e foi 



Bota 



Ml 



FLOWER-BEI' 



vei-y good. In 

 -whether the tt\i.t 

 an edguig of Vti 

 improved by a 



udar cdg 



grdiip of nine clumps will look veiy beautiful. The Hose-bud is noticed 

 above. 



Seedling Cheerv [J. Se(i(;e!ej)).— .Although the top is broken off, yet if the 

 bide branches are allowed to grow they will bear fruit. 



Painting Boof of Greenhouse (J. H.).— If you mean oil paint, certamly 

 do not use it if you mean to apply it over the glass. If only over the -wood- 

 work there is no objection. The best plan is to apply blue-tinted whitewash 

 to the glass inside. This cau be washed off at the season of the year- when 

 there is not excessive light. Oil paint would make the house too dai-k. 



Mushroom Ci.-liuiie in a Cellar (B. P. E).— In No. 497 of our Jom-nal 

 are full du-ections. They are too long to reprint. You can have a copy for 

 fom- postage stamps. 



M.iNURE Tanks (£., Bristol). — We cannot suggest any improvement. If 

 any offensive smell arises from the solid contents, cover- these 2 inches deep 

 with earth. 



Furze, Derivation of its Names (I/i(ji«rc)-).— It is altered in spelUngfi-om 

 its Anglo-Saxon name Fyi-s, and this, probably, alluded to its being the eai-Uest, 

 fijrst, blooming shrub." Gorse is also an altered spelling of another Anglo- 



time to ihstnbiu 1 



I am in ani v 

 ■\\ FlRKEE, 10 I 



Watercress lt lii i i 

 fiom any stieam wheic \\ 

 emitting lootlets Thr ti 

 that neaily a legiilu dei tl 

 aie a 3 aids bi il -iiil 1 

 qmte hi-m f 



nil oi applying too soon — 



1 I can ieadrl> obtaul plants 



rid m ike cuttmgs of the stems 



they aie giown aie so picpaied, 



in b" kept up These tienches 



) j! itel tl,r bottom IS made 



I 11 \ in at one end 



1 11 t siiflicicutly 



Iht tl ssesaie 



uh th I U the endof h\e or 



1 cow dimg IS spiead oiti all the 



a htaiw hoaid to which a long 



u 1 11 l1 t . the d pth if 2 01 



111 1 I 1 1 t 1 1 iaU> , and 



Iccayed 



I I I nans of 



I I I 1 tieated 



fouu at lualh tin k hn i it tlif bottom of 



me ireucn ann .cii^o .„ .,^=. Its leiel lo lestoie it to its ongmal le^el, all 



the lefuse should be thiown cutupou the boideis which separate the tienches 



'*°" Jle'^of mIlon Pit Lights (J n L)-Yom lights seem to have only 

 a faU of 10 niches in 6 feet. Now, the proper mchne for pit lights is 1 foot 

 in 3 feet, or for a 6-feet width the front wall should be 1 foot, and the back 

 3 feet above the gioimd level. We advise you to take two com-ses of bncks 



out It I 1 



moist 1 mall 1 1 



then dl^ 1 1 1 

 place 1 I I 



SIX da 



plants I 1 



handle is luiitli li a 11 

 3 mches, and ne\ci hi,;,hci Li i 

 fmmshes tweb e ciops dunng the 

 cow dung Is spiead o\cr the nak 1 i 

 the lammei above mentioned UL 

 for a tw eh emonth, the 

 the trench and tends t 



