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JOURNAL OF HOETICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GABDENEE. 



t Jiiue 27, 1873. 



]iad pai-t of them destroyed, and planted the ground with eided on one of the former, and do not regret the decision. I 

 Mai-guerite and Dr. Eoden's Early Prolific. Those plants of can only speak from one season's experience, but so far I am 

 Keens' Seedling which I left have this year been a mass of perfectly satisfied. My Geraniums when turned out were 

 blossom, and have set a large crop. i pictures of health and vigour, and my Vines now in the second 



The following sorts promise to bear a very heavy crop— viz., ! year are making excellent wood. The fire was attended to at 

 BlackPrince,Marguerite,Prolific(Dr.Eoden), President (a first- six o'clock in the evening, and four mornings out of five it 

 rate variety). Empress Eugenie, Sir Charles Napier, Prince of was still burning when my man came at G a.m. to attend to it, 

 Wales, Cook's Magnificent, La Coustante, British Queen, and when it was not relit unless necessary. 



Dr. Hogg. I use clean straw to keep the berries free from ! The fuel consumed was cinders, small coal, and a few small 

 dirt ; I consider it superior to anything else.— .J. A. , lumps of coal mixed, about two or tla-ee pecks in a day. If 



I had had no man to attend to the stove boiler early in the 



c.i^TxTi-r>rmT,T . TTTTur r, t^ t, t^ -r i. . ^ moniiug I should havc tried a gas boiler, as requiring less 



AMUUKiUM bCHJLEZEKIANUM SEEDING. i attention ; but I think the expense of the gas consumed would 

 The seeding or fruiting of this Anthurium is not, I am be a consideration. I considered for some time whether there 

 well aware, a nev,- or even rare occurrence, and we often , would not be a loss of heat in putting the stove boiler out- 



hear of jdants being raised 

 from seed produced in our 

 gardens. 'Those who have 

 had the opportunity of see- 

 ing a plant when thus fruit- 

 ing, will doubtless have 

 been stiuck with its curious 

 and interesting appearance 

 when bearing its fruit on 

 the spadix, or elongation at 

 the top of the spathe. 



One plant of several hero 

 has produced on one foot- 

 stalk the most fruit that I 

 have seen; the spadix, which 

 is about S) inches in length, 

 is completely covered with, 

 its red wart-like berries to 

 the number of nearly two 

 hundred. Each of these will 

 contain from two to three or 

 even more seeds. A few such 

 as this would aid consider- 

 ably to increase the stock of 

 this truly beautiful plant, 

 which certainly should not 

 be absent from any collection 

 of exotics, for it can be con- 

 veniently grown in one of 

 the warmest houses, aud 

 when in bloom placed in the 

 flowering department, where 

 its noble spathes contrast 

 well with the delicate flowers 

 of the Orchids, presenting 

 an appearance not to bo sur- 

 passed, if equaUed, by any 

 other stove plant. 



As a rule, I beUeve the 

 berries ripen at intervals, by 

 fits and starts, but in tlie 

 case referred to they are 

 tolerably regular from top 

 to bottom. This freedom in 

 setting I attribute to the 

 ants, which are extremely fond of traversing 

 all stages of their development. — C. J. White. 



HEATING A SPAN-EOOPED GEEENHOUSE. 



It is not very easy to advise your correspondent " C. A." 

 (page 463), without seeing the place and knowing all the de- 

 tails ; but I think if a few of your correspondents narrate their 

 own experience of successful work it wiU assist him materiallj'. 



I have a span-roofed house 16 feet by 12 feet, which I f ur- 

 nislied with heating apparatus last autumn. I considered the 

 question of heating with stoves inside aud outside, flues, gas, 

 oU, etc., and came to the conclusion that there was nothing 

 like hot- water pipes. The difHoulty then was to find a suitable 

 boiler. I got togotlier .all the prospectuses I could find of 

 boilers — tubular, saddle, conical, elliptic, cylindrical, double-L, 

 convoluted, twin, and a great many others, some of them re- 

 quiring to be set in a ma?3 of brickwork and consuming as 

 much fuel as a sm.aU steam engine, and others requiring no 

 brickwork and fed principally on cinders. After looking them 



side, and whether I could 

 not put it inside, or partly 

 inside, so as to economise 

 heat ; but the loss of heat is 

 not so much as I expected 

 with the stove boiler outside, 

 and the smoke is a fatal ob- 

 jection to puttiug it inside. 

 It is fed at the top, and when 

 you hght the fire the lid is 

 taken oU', aud all the smoke 

 for about five minutes come.s 

 out there, so that if it is 

 put inside it must be cut off 

 by a partition and have a 

 door communicating with the 

 open ah'. 



The cheapest and best 

 plan is to put the stove 

 boiler outside in a stokehole 

 near the brickwork, at some 

 point where it can be covered 

 over by a lean-to, and where 

 tlie pipe from the stove boiler 

 can be held up by irons 

 driven into the brickwork or 

 woodwork above. Two posts 

 driven into the ground would 

 support the lower end of the 

 root, and the sides might be 

 boarded-iu, or xino used it 

 there were any danger of 

 scorching the wood. " C. A." 

 liad better see one of the 

 stove boilers before he finally 

 decides where to put it. My 

 hot-water pipes are of 3-inch 

 size, an I run along two sides 

 and one end of the house, 

 and I would recommend 

 " C. A." to have the same ; 

 say 110 feet of 3-inch pipe, 

 and No. 2 size stove boiler, 

 would warm tho house ; but 

 the stove boiler must be 

 the blooms at I 3 feet below the level of the ground to work properly. 



j From tho plan it appears as though one of the corners to 

 the right or left of n would be the best place for the stove 

 boiler, and then pipes weuld run to the right past n and turn 

 back, and to the left past c and turn back, which would make 

 the two sides and one end recommended, leaving the end n 

 without any, which would be all the better, as the entrance is 

 on that end. — Amateur, Cire>ii:cxtrr. 



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AEE GLOIEE DE DIJON AND MAEKCHAL 



NIEL TEA EOSES? 

 At York Show, .June 12th, a prize was given for tlie twelv° 

 best blooms of auy kind of Tea-scented Eoses. The only 

 Eoses staged were three stands of Glou'e de Dijon, and one stand 

 Marechal Niel. The Judges, of whom I was one, gave tlie first 

 prize to Marechal Niel. The judgment was questioned, not on 

 the merit of the Eoses, as there was no doubt of the box of 

 Marechal Niel being infinitely superior to the other three, but 

 because Marechal Niel is put down in the Eose catalogues as a 



over I preferred the stove boilers of Mr. Eiddell and Mr. Lynch I Noisette. I promised I would write to your Journal, and ask 

 Whit« a.s most likely to answer my pm-pose, and finally de- the opiuion of other Eose judges on the subject. I have little 



