October 9, 1873. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUEK AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



209 



Ag. 7, projects nearly or quite 12 inches, and is supported by 

 bractets of wood built into the wall ; upon these is laid a 

 rafter running parallel with the wall, and the whole is covered- 

 in with neatly-made tiles. The small half-circular ridge placed 

 on the top of the roof is made of the same material as the 

 tile, and in lengths of a foot or more. It is laid-on with 

 cement, and the joints made firm with the same material. A 

 portion of the lower side of each tile is hoUowed-ont before 

 boming in order to make it fit on the ridge. 



I Wrought iron is the most suitable material, and the plates 

 should be well secured by the bolts. These plates are to remain 

 permanently fixed in the wall. The brackets are of cast iron, 

 [ and though they are not different in pattern from those for 

 I shelves, instead of screw-holes they have at the top a lug 

 ! li inch long one way and li inch the other, and a stud at the 

 bottom which fits the lower square hole in the plate. The use 

 I of the lugs will be seen on reference to n. To fix them, all we 

 have to do is to put the top lug through the top hole in the 

 plate aud let it drop ; it will hang by the lug, and cannot liy 

 any possibility fall out, and the bottom lug drops into the 

 lower square hole in the plate. The coping boards are then 

 put on and wiU fit exactly beneath the coping, and having an in- 

 cline outwards, the water will drop clear of the trees. A screw 

 will keep the boards from being dislodged, a hole being at the 

 end of the bracket that is within an inch of the end. I tor 

 one thank Mr. Abbey for bringing this very excellent bracket 

 under our notice, for I am not the only one who has an 

 objection to the ugly appearance of the pei-manent brackets 

 when the boards are taken down, and this bracket does away 

 with all that ; besides, its cheapness and eflicieney, as well as 

 ingenious design, are further recommendation. — Thomas 

 Eecokd. 



Fis. 7. 



At the time I saw the above coping in use I was assured that 

 it answered remarkably well in that part of the country, which 

 was in one of the eastern counties ; and although it is not the 

 Bort of coping that would be likely to suit the more tasteful 

 ideas of the present day, yet the fact of its being a permanent 

 coping of about the same width as recommended for tem- 

 porary copings and found to answer so well, suggests the 

 question, Whether, if the temporary copings now in use were 

 made into permanent, they would do the harm to the trees 

 generally ascribed to them ? I am inclined to the belief that 

 they would be more beneficial than the reverse for such fruits 

 as Peaches and Nectarines, Cherries and Plums. The former 

 two always exhibit a tenderness in our climate which causes 

 more anxiety than is experienced with any other description of 

 fruit trees, and I am greatly in favour of a more constant pro- 

 tection for such trees. 



While upon the subject of temporary copings it may be as 

 well to call attention to a moveable coping bracket spoken of 

 and recommended by Mr. Abbey. Fig. 8 is an illustration of 



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Fig. 8. 



it. I have not seen it in use, therefore with his permission 

 will give his own description of it. Ho says a good method is 

 to fix to the face of the wall pieces of iron H inch by half an 

 inch, and 1.3 inches in length, with a square hole at the top 

 IJ inch by three-quarters of an inch, and another of half an 

 inch, 9 inches from the top hole, with two lioles for bolts to 

 drive into the wall. The plate wUl on the face have the ap- 

 pearance of A, fig. 8. The plate should be let into the under 

 side of the coping up to the top of the upper square hole, and 

 before driving-in the bolts a space an inch longer and the same 

 Bi2e in other respects as the upper hole must be cut out of the 

 face of the wall l.J inch deep, opposite to where the plate is to 

 bo fixed. The distance apart ought not to exceed feet. 



FIKST-CLASS-CERTIFICATED VEGETABLES. 



First-class certificates have been awarded this year by the 

 Fruit and Vegetable Committee to the following vegetables 

 proved in the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Chiswick. 



Peas.— Laxton's Gem (Laxton), dwarf, early, winkled, green 

 Marrow. Dagmar (Laxton), early, dwarf, wrinkled, white Mar- 

 row. The Shah (Laxton), early, wrinkled, white Marrow. 

 Marvel (Laxton), large-podded; second early white wrinkled 

 Marrow. The Baron (Laxton), very large-podded early green 

 Marrow. 



Beans, Kidney. — Carter's White Advancer (Carter), dwarf, 

 prolific, early white. Cutbush's Giant Dwarf, very large pods, 

 strong-growing; second early. Osburne's New Early Forciug, 

 fine, dwarf, early prolific. Dwarf Butter Bean (Carter), large 

 fleshy pods of a pale yeUow. Mont d'Or Butter Bean (Carter), 

 tall runner ; large, fleshy, pale yellow pods. 



Tomato. — Hathaway's Excelsior (Vick & Son), large, smooth, 

 round, early prolific. 



Potatoes. — Alice Fenn (Ferm), early white kidney. Early 

 White Kidney (Fenn), large, early, white kidney. Little Gera 

 (Fenn), early white kidney. Bresee's Climax (Bresee), large, 

 round, second-early white. Fenn's Early Market (Fenn), large, 

 white, early, round prolific. Extra Early Vermont (Bliss and 

 Sons), early rose-coloured kidney; gi'eat cropper. Vermont 

 Beauty (Bliss & Sons), large, smooth, flat red ; second early, very 

 beautiful. American Pale Rose, large, flat, rose-coloured kidney ; 

 second early. Enormous cropper. 



N.B. — The late Potatoes have not yet been judged by the 

 Committee. 



POTATOES TUBERLESS. 



I SEND a box containing the remains of a Potato, also another 

 with a number of small wireworms in it. The remains of the 

 Potato were alone, no Potato having grown (or, if so, it had 

 disappeared) for a yard at least in the row. With the other 

 one, having the wireworms in it, there were above twenty tine 

 tubers at the root, not a decayed one, and not a wireworm. 



The haulms had the disease, and I had them carefully pulled 

 off a month ago, and am now digging the tubers up. On one 

 root turned up there were forty-four, and I saw afterwards one. 

 From 3 yards in a row there was not a Potato nor a remnant 

 of one. 



I purchased foreign Belgian Kidneys, which I found so rich 

 and good that I was induced to plant 2 ewt. They were 

 planted in soot and lime on the 12th of February, the land 

 not otherwise manured. The year prior the ground was well 

 treated, and Peas, &o., grown upon it. I planted full-sized sets. 

 The haulms being badly affected, pulling them off prevented 

 the evU going down to the tuber, I think, as out of a very 

 average crop there is only here and there one decayed or 

 rather affected. I can account for so many yards proving 

 without a single Potato only by supposing tlie wireworm has 

 eaten them. — H. S. S. 



[Two tubers were enclosed in the same box ; one tuber totally 

 decayed had on it a few of the "wireworms" (so called by 

 our correspondent), but which were the Snake Millipede (Juhis 

 complanatus). They may occasion decay, hut they certainly 

 feed on decayed vegetable substances. The other tuber, par- 



