September 15, 1863. ] 



JOUKNAL OF HORTICULTUEE AIJD COTTAGE GAEDENER. 



219 



Beans, Broad bush. 



Kidney 1 sieve 



Beet, red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



CabbdBe doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots buucb 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucurabeis doz. 



pickling doz. 



Endive score 



Fennel bunch 



Oarlio and Shallots, lb. 

 Gourds & Punipk., each 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish ... bundle 



V-ESETABLES. 



u'to I Leeks bunch 



6 4 ! Lettuce score 



1 t> I Mushrooms pottle 



I Musld.S Cress, punnet 



1 3 j Onions Imuch 



3 2 1 pickling quart 



6 8 > Parsley bunch 



5 Parsnips doz. 



6 2 I Peas bush. 



6 10 Potatoes sack 



y 10 Radishes doz. bunches 



3 2 6, Rhubarb bundle 



() (I j Savoys per do/.. 



8 ' Sea-kale basket 



1 Spinach sieve 



3 Tomatoes 2 sieve 



G 4 1 Xurnipa hunch 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*»* We request that no one will \mtc x:ii'iva,tely to the de- 

 partmental wi-iters of the " Journal of Hortioultui-e, 

 Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so 

 doing they are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and 

 expense. AH communications should therefore be ad- 

 di-essed solely to The Editors of the Journal of Horticid- 

 ture, ^-c, 162, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 

 We also request that correspondents will not mU up on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those 

 on Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get them 

 answered promptly and conveniently, but wTite them 

 on sepai-ate communications. Also never to send more 

 than two or tlo-ee questions at once. 

 N.B.— Many questions must remain unanswered until next 

 week. 

 Tbitoma vtaku Colture (J. i.).— Tritoma uvaria requires nothing 

 that we know of beyond a deep, rich and moist soil to induce it to Uower. 

 It flowers freely with us in the early part of October. We sliould say your 

 fine healthy plant will yet flower, the latter part of August being quite early 

 enough, even for East Cornwall, to look for the flowcr-spike ol this plant. 

 We should think it is quite hardy with you; but a few inches of cocoa-nut 

 flbre put over the crown on the approach of severe weather wU. make all 

 safe. Remove the offsets m the spring immediately on lU-i p.aiit com- 

 mencing new growth. 



Gladiolus Disease {An Old Subscriber). -Your flower was smashed. 

 Our correspondent says, •' Campanula garganica is a good tianer. 



Compost foe Geeanilks-Cuttings of Beduino Plants {Au Amitfur). 

 —We think your compost well aired and turned might do very we.l tor 

 Geraniums, &c., in small pots ; but for larger plants we should be doubtful 

 unless we saw it. Much will depend on the ainng and the sweetness 

 We would not be liberal with dung or soot until tairly tried. We suspect 

 your cuttings have been kept too close and too moist. W e can hardly 

 advise you how to succeed with them and the O-rapes too, as too much 

 damp will also injure the Grapes ; but instead of planting we would advise 

 you to put the cuttings in pots, and then you can more easily move them. 



Seedling Peijiulas (Jrfem).-The Primula sinensis if potted now, four 

 in a small pot round the sides, and in a month or sii weeks potted singly, 

 will flower nicely next spring. 



Peeventino Ekcbostation in Boilers (./. KeaTns).—\\e know of no 

 better remedy than sal ammoniac, an ounce to sixty gallons ol water, but 

 the oftener the boiler is emptied the better. We thmk if potash or soda 

 were mixed with the water and allowed to stand several days before being 

 put into the boiler, that the evil would be lessened ; but then it might not 

 suit the purposes for which the boiler is used. All boilers will become 

 encrusted with such water. 



CocoA-KUT Refuse eoi Potting (J. X.). -Cocoa-nut dust is a good 

 material for plants of any kind, from a Pine down to a Strawberry, and 

 from an Orchid to a Calceolaria. All plants thrive well in it. 



Heating a Small House ani. Cucumbei-.-bed (0. 7/.).— The pipes in 

 the bed had better be covered with inches or so of rough rubble, clinkers, 

 ic, and then an inch or two of fine washed gravel-leaving only the hue 

 little stones. Au inch of cement might go over this so as to give you a 

 smooth firm bottom, then about 13 inches of soil. If you go deeper with the 

 pipes they will be less effectual, lor such a house and to have truit so 

 early we would like three four-inch pipes on each side lor top heal and on 

 the same level. 



Rhus puccedasea (Sii:.';ac;i).— Unless under very favourable circum- 

 stances we fear this effective plant w ill not prove quite hardy with you. It 

 is, however, well worthy of a trial in some of the lovely sheltered corners in 

 the upper part of your unique grounds, or on a conservatory wall. A hot 

 position with a light dry soil are the most likely conditions to that proper 

 ripening of the wood, which with slight piolection, may enable it to stand 

 the -winters ot Bucks. But you are too well informed on all these matters 

 to require any instructions lor your guidance. W'e shall be happy to bear 

 Low it succeeds with you. 



Diseased Vines (B. A. S.).— You have a fungous rust on the Vines, the 

 result of over-moisture at the roots, or an over-close moist atmosphere lu 

 the bouse. The first remedy is more air and heat in the house, a little 

 sulphur on the walls or the heating medium, and if that does not answer, 

 lifting the Vines or more drainage. 



Hardiness or Copueas (/. i.).-Cuphea eminens and the Crystal Palace 

 crimson are probably hardy in East Cornwall. Try them. Cupbeas lu 

 pots require about as muck water as a Fuchsia— just enough to keep tucm 

 growing in winter, but abundance when growing and flowering m summer. 



Unhealthy Oeanoe Teee-Hova bixla [C. C/.t/rc/M/O.-^} e think the 

 excessive flowering of the Orange and the bad health afterwards are owing 

 to div less at the Toots. Soak ihe whole ball in a tub, allow it to drain 

 afterlrds and un?ilg owing freely u,-e nothing but clvar soft water. In 

 soring give aU the heat you can, so as to promote free growth. Keep rather 

 dry in win'e r. S rong manure now is like presenting beef-steaks to a 

 p'or invX who can tmly sip a little liquid. You n.ay allow the Ho, a 

 M bloom but take it to tlie warmest ena of the greenhouse and keep it 

 rathe"d"yaU the winter, keepin,- the stems succulent by syringing them 

 frequently, rather than by giving much water at the roots. 



T1.MP0RAEV Heating a Small Gbeenhouse (P. V. J/. f.).-The parafBn 

 lamps win be better than the eindles; but two would be of litt e use in a 

 eX night and nJ protection used. ' We would recommend f3 'he simplest 

 and best, a small iron stove with a wrought iron tube through the roof, and 

 a flat ton so that you may place a vessel or vessels of water over it. We 

 fhink the nUnts will be safer in pots or boxes set on the border, instead 01 

 being pla&ouT in such circumstances. You can more easily examine 

 mo"? and do what is wanted to them. A stove about 3Vs. complee oughts 

 "o do all you want. If the flre-box is free of the sides so much the better. 



Shflf foe Geeenhouse lllrs. West).-ron cannot do well with les] 

 than 2 feetclea. round the fount .in. The end shelves or platforms may 

 r^nee from 'T to 3 and 4 feet in width. You would see the whole matter 

 refef red to the other week. The plants will not suSer from the air being 

 an at d as proposed, but it must'^be done moderately at the sides in cold 

 weather. The air at the top would then be the pnuc.pal thing. 



Heating a Span-eoofed Fof.cing-pit I Yorkshire Suhscrtber).--ne 



K you wish tw°hotbrfs, one on each side, the best plan would be to have 

 two pipes on each side for bottom heat, and two for top heat. 



be^ ^r ^^[tt;^ wirw^S Jw i^Sei^S^t t^cS un?3 

 a good many buds are opening. 

 Poke for Heating ildemJ.-There will be no difficulty as to the coke ; if 



STACKYS PAEUSTEIS AS A SUBSTITUTE FOE ASFAEAGDS i^'O^ ]«'''" ''"'"^^ 



^n^^oduci^g^c^oumrler of Northern Europe ^^^^^^ l^''^^, 



ground stems are of the size of small Asparagus and ^^« '^f ^°'^;^ shoots of 

 not >pen the steins of this p ant used so extensively as the young snoots ui 

 ?he Wild Hop (Humulus lupulns], as Greens by country people, though we 

 have know"Tonie do so. and they pronounce then, to be 1«1":""'\ .V//.^;^ 



Sa;s^?t^eng^:sS?t;£:Si=;^-^^"^.^^ 



term tliein alwavs are. The plant in question grows naturally >■; mo^t 



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 ki ^-^\:^^C^^^^ -;^if iiiSt^^f et^dUo^^ 



r^bo??r Ji^v^^'^s: pifit^J^n^^^^ %SFSSs 

 - ;;?s^fei^ngi:;;s^'s d^ fr S^S^sfe 



the thickness of well-grown Asparagus »''°°"L'>y '^f''lS'"ere used 



shoots which might become finer and larger by c"'"^*'"'"' '''■'l^'^v.""; 

 nferor'n tenderness and flavour to any vegetable we ^-^^- ^^^^^^^% 

 way to obtain plants would be to apply to some ' ■'^nd in ^he ^^^f\^^ 

 a dealer in herbs would probably obtain "«™ '"^ >™j ^ve n"d hem 

 the same tale about Chestnut leave, being ^''■"'■'"^^•^"i/b.sUear mould, 

 without any deleterious results. Oak, Beech &c, make tlu best le , 



but there is not so much difference after all between the •'^fj' °^ j^ j,.„,„ 

 and that of another genus after they b»<;ome decomposed L.arnouia.^^ 

 Chestnut leaves contains more .P°<»«'_""'';'">^, °'„ „„„ure poisons 

 respects it does not differ materially. Some peo le »''y '"^ " chlstnut- 

 coniferous trees ; and, probably, the same V«°Pl«^'''';''^;rVa, plied We 

 tree leaves ate poisonous to any plant to which they are appiico. 



^'^:l^T^V^. K. S.i^You shouhl ^-e -nt th^lea^sa. well as 

 the fruit of your Peaches and Nectannes as 'b^^^a^cter 0, t g^^^ 

 very important in determining the names^ 1 ''''''■',„,„,,.,„. ,j Ncwington ; 

 2 wL too muchbruised ;/:- Clingstone ^ecnalmappa,e.ly^^^e^^ 



4, hard and unripe ; 5 and < , Bellegarde , 0- ^•"f "1"'^j;,j' j^ „„„ bad condi- 

 9. Eiruge. ( W. '^"/"'"rl-T Y"^^ ^;'':_We c in ""t "ndertakj to name so 

 tion, is the Diamond. iOld iub>cr"'> )--J"'^™j,„j, „,„st be reasonable 

 many as thirty sorts of unripe App es. Cor'-'-spo..a jmscadine. 



in their demands upon our time m this respect. 01, a , j 



