Aogast 7, 1873. ) 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTDKE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



small frnit snflicient for the use of the family are protlucecl. 

 I am couviuceil that in this neighbourhood there is not a 

 labourer who does not, taking the year round, earn £1 a-week, 

 besides what the women and children earn by the not very 

 laborioas work of Hop-tying and other matters connected with 

 onr pecahar cultures. I was in the north lately, and saw a 

 good deal of bad farming and bad cottages, but I should be 

 sorry hence to infer that this is the normal condition of the 

 counties through which I passed. — T).,Di;al. 



SELF-FEEDING FURNACE FOR HEATING 

 SMALL GREENHOUSES. 

 Ha VINT, noticed inquiries as to heating small greenhouses, I 

 venture to submit to my brother readers a section of a self- 

 feeding famace, which will be found effectual and economical. 

 I built the original three years since, and have proved it to 

 work sixteen hours, and even more, with one charge, at a 

 regular heat, using only the cinders and refuse from the 

 dwelling-house. 



Description of sketch, whi^h is drawn half an inch to a toot. 

 A, Level of stokehole ; b, ashpit ; c, furnace ; D, tlue ; E, hopper ; 

 F, bridge severing hopper from flue ; o, furnace door ; h, hop- 

 per door; i, damper closing front of ashpit (a plate of iron, 

 with circular regulator in centre) ; j, sill and frame of house ; 

 K, stones, &c., retained in place by bricks set on edge, formiug 

 the lower strata of a hotbed for striking cuttings; l, end wall 

 of house. The arrows show the course of the air, which, 

 prevented by the door h from passing through the bulk of the 

 fuel, seeks the flue as the easiest means of exit, and thus the 

 fuel, slowly passing down the hopper, is consumed only on 

 reaching the grate. There is a damper in the chimney outside 

 the house, to assist the ashpit damper in high winds. 



The fire, when thoroughly alight, is pushed to the back of 

 the grate, the furnace door closed, and the hopper filled with 

 fuel ; the only attention then required is an occasional raking 

 of the ashes through the grate by means of a hooked rake 

 passed between the bars of the grate from the ashpit ; the 

 furnace door is only opened about once a-week to draw clinkers. 



The size illustrated, with 10 feet of flue, heats a bouse of 

 about .500 cubic feet contents, but sheltered from north and east 

 winds. — G. W. G. — (EnglUh Mechanic and World o Hcience.) 



OLD FRUITS AND VEGET.VBLES UNDER NEW 

 NAMES— THE NEW STR.VWUERRY DWARF 



TOMATO. 



I HAVE waited for some weeks for an abler pen than mine to 

 expose the untradcsmanlike manner of sending out the 

 Emerald Gem Pea. It reminds me of the anecdote of the 

 parson who preached a sermon, and asked one of his hearers 

 how he liked it. " Oh ! " he replied, " I have admired it these 

 forty years." Just so with the Emerald Clem ; I have known 

 and approved of it these forty years under the name of Ken- 

 dall's Superb. That I might be certain of its identity I brought 

 some old gardening friends to look at it, and they instantly 

 recognised it as an old favourite. It is deserving of all that can 

 be said in its favour, but I think it is too bad to palm oil an 



old thing as a new variety at a price which ought only to be 

 attached to really new and improved varieties. 



Some years ago a friend of mine sent me from Mansfield, 

 twenty Peas by post, called Stewart's Paradise. I sowed them 

 and saved the finest po3s for several years, till their original 

 size and appearance were very much improved, so that my 

 friend could scarcely believe they were the same variety. 

 Well, they got into a neighbouring seedsman's hands, who 



c.iUed them Prolific. I instantly on view recognised 



them, and asked him if he was growing Stewart's Paradise 



Peas. " No," said he, " they are Prolific." I replied, 



" You obtained them from one of your men." He was obliged 



to confess the truth, and then be changed their name to " 



Escholls," wliich synonym they are known by at present until 

 they get another. 



Again, having read a good account of Princess of Wales Pea, 

 I got a neighbouring seedsman to obtain some from London. 

 These proved equal to description, and became very popular 



under the synouym of Conqueror. I think it is very 



wrong to mislead people by giving things new names, but it is 

 dishonest to charge the price of new varieties for old ones. — 

 JosEi'H BcEGESS, Knutsford. 



The answer to the " Inteoduceks' " inquiry, "Wherein lies 

 the deception ? " must be patent to all. Permit me, however, 

 to ask them if it is consistent with their views of fair dealing 

 to call such an old and well-known fruit as the Cape Goose- 

 berry a new Tomato, thereby inducing the public to purchase 

 as a novelty that which it had so long cultivated. 



Wherein lies the novelty of application ? For many years it 

 has been in general cultivation solely for its fruit, which is 

 eaten at dessert, and also preserved as a jam, which is much 

 esteemed, and I fail to see that those who term themselves its 

 introducers propose to do more with it. In the supplement to 

 Johnson's " Gardeners' Dictionary," it is stated that Physalis 

 edulis (or eatable Cape Gooseberry), is a native of South 

 America, introduced into this country in 1773, just a hundred 

 years ago. — E. Ldckhubst. 



I HAVE to thank Mr. Luckliurst for putting us on the alert 

 against the " New " Strawberry Dwarf Tomato, and I at the 

 same time take the opportunity of protesting against such 

 attempts to pass off old things as novelties merely because 

 they appear as such in American catalogues. In this oounti-y 

 we generally suppose that nursery and seedsmen know their 

 business and act upon their knowledge. Suppose an American 

 seedsman were to offer seed of the " New Green Gage Tomato 

 (Solauum tuberosum)," would " the introducers " be justified 

 in offering this to their customers as new, merely because the 

 American said that Potato berries might be used as Tomatoes? 

 I think it would be better if some of our seedsmen exhibited 

 more judgment and less eagerness in the introduction of 

 novelties. — .■i.iiATEUB. 



WALES AND WELSHMEN.— No. 3. 



Whilst I am writmg these notes Mr. Justice Keating has been 

 here for the purpose of holding the assizes, and he made this re- 

 markable and, probably, unparalleled address to the grand jury 

 — " Gentlemen — your duties will consist of listening to tho 

 gratifying announcement that there is no prisoner for trial at 

 the assizes. I have received a return of the state of business 

 at the asiizes corresponding to the present during the last 

 three years. From tliat return I find that in 1870 there was 

 but one prisoner for trial, against whom no true bill was found ; 

 in 1871 there were four prisoners for trial, three of whom 

 were found not guilty ; in 1872 there were no prisoners for 

 trial ; and in 187:S there is once more a Wank calendar. This 

 is a state of things reflecting the greatest credit not only 

 upon the magistracy, clergy, and all concerned in the preserva- 

 tion of tho peace in tho county, but also upon the population 

 at large. I have the satisfaction of stating that this gratifying 

 condition o things is not confined to Anglesoa, for as far as my 

 experience has liitherto gone, this immunity from crime ap- 

 pears to be general in the Principality. Up to the present 

 time I have had the honeurof bringing Her Majesty's commis- 

 sion into four counties, and in .all of these I found only four 

 prisoners for trial, tlio offences with which they were charged 

 beinf; so slight that I deemed justice would be satisfied by 

 passing a sentence of fourteen days imprisonment upon each. 



This affords a glorious contrast to the characteristics of four 

 centuries ago when one of our nursery rhymes was composed 



