JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAilDENER. 



[ October 6, 1S63. 



COVENT GAEDEiSr MAEKET.-Oct. 3. 



The market continues well supplied with all kinds of fruit and vegetables, 

 and tbe demand is pood for the season. Grapes, Pines, and all hothouse 

 fruit are quite sufficient for the demand. Pears are abundant, and Ribston 

 Pippins are now brouRlit in larger quantities. Madeira Oranges are comins 

 in, and Lemons are falling in price. The best Cobs are bringing 659. per 

 100 lbs. Capo Broccoli Is now making its appearance. Of Potatoes the 

 supply is slill ample for all demands, and prices have undergone no altera- 

 tion. 



Apples I sieve 1 



Apricots doz. 



Figs doi. 1 



Filberts ifc Nuts 100 lbs. 55 



Grapes, Hamburghs. lb. 1 



Muscats lb. 3 



Lemons 100 8 



Melons each 1 



Mulberries quart 



FRUIT. 

 3. d 



(> to 4 







6 



75 



6 5 



e 





 2 



14 

 4 

 9 



Nectarines doz. 



Orangea 100 



Peaches doz. 



Pears bush. 



dessert i sieve 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plums ^ sieve 



Quinces doz. 



d. s. d 



OtoO 



12 

 14 



Walunts bush. 14 



VEGETABLES. 



Beans, Broad bush. 



Kidney ^ sieve 



Beet, red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers doz. 



pickling doz. 



Endive score 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic and Shallots, lb. 

 Gourds & Pnmpk., each 



Herbs buncli 



Horseradish ... bundle 



too 

 6 4 



Leeks bunch 



Lettuce score 2 



Mushrooms pottle 1 



M ustd. & Cress, punnet 



1 3 Onions ... bunch 



2 pickling quart 



Parsley bunch 



Parsnips doz. 



3 Peas bush. 



10 Potatoes sack 5 



1 Radishes doz. bunches 1 



2 6 Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys per doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Spinach sieve I 



Tomatoes ^ sieve 2 



4 ; Turnips bunch 



d. 5. d 



3 too 



3 



2 



2 



4 



9 







S 



2 















2 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*4,* We request that no one will -Hrite privately to the de- 

 partmental ^vriters 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 ad- 

 dressed solely to The Editors of the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture, S(c., 162, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 



We also request that correspondents will not mis 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 write them 

 on sepai-ate communications. Also never to send more 

 than two or three questions at once. 

 Beebeeey Hedge (ir. 2). P^i„e).-The Common Berberry (Berbcris vul- 



gariB), IS the best and only one of the genus suitable for a boundary hedge. 



«,T?^f,1',''°7T'''{-^: ■''■'•-"'' not common to train the Vines down 

 tbe rafters of a Ican-to vmery, though it is common enough in span-roofed 

 houses to tram them up one side and down the other. They do vfry well in 

 that way, but the experience we have of training them down the roof of a 

 WWh.^T."'t' sucn practice The Vines may be trained down from the 

 S«r r,o''?v"'^?"8'' ll ""= ^of " 25° ; but if it is a high pitch or even one 

 ?^f. tf' ""^ ^"'%' ""J ■"°' '''' ^^"- ^^« •'"■'' ^™^ " ""d been disappointed, 

 mav h» .^!;iv?/K ". ^'"^ '" tf"* oPW^r-is, and although overluxuriance 

 ™^L^H '''%''«'' ^y trammg, yet this mode of training is not to be recom- 

 Se hni ^f " '° ^r""'- ^^= "'■""''l P'""' ">™ '■! a border in front of 

 nnti^ a 1^'omh ZV 'r"°,'" ^'"' P'""™' '" November, but apply no heat 

 until a month before forcing is commenced. As yon object to the naked 



a^ThJ. ^nin'}°^'f^^" '\'''- =" 1"^'™'= "' introducingthim into the hotse 

 at the point of their entering the house with the kinds vou wish still rel 



beTr"^hen t°he o d" V" '° "'" fV'i' ""'" '"' ^'^"^ """' °f a-^fflcLnt ze to 

 Dear, when the old \me8 wouJd be removed. 



n.^'.T'' ^^l'^ ^ "' -^•'— ^t U one of the richest of all manures ; and there 

 ITJifTf}^^ ^"'^ E"""^'" '" y^^'" ""'• i'" y^"*- gardener is correct in 

 JflLfnl L^ "^Ir "'^- ^"^^'^ ''^ ''"y '*^^t ^*' if dug in it is very fer- 

 £^nS^M?f« TJ^ 30 on tenacious loama. Buy our " Manures for the 

 Sr flL **^t "^^,^'*'^'o« of which you can have free by post from our office 

 for ave postage etamps. Pigeon dung makes an excellent Uquid manure. 



RrlJiSn'^'n" ^''S^'l° ^"'"''''^ <^- ^yo^O.-^Wild Flowers of Great 

 fli^ '^ A P"V•'^'"^/i ^"'^ ''^''^ ^n «*»*"'nff monthly Numbers, con- 

 tarns coloured portraits of the species and full desjriptions. 



h»^tnh[r-i Entomology IN a. i).).-Mr. Van Vooret, Paternoster Row, 

 haspubhahed a work on the Insects of Madeira, and if you write to hini 

 ZtS!!^- "° **o"*'t;?e will give you satisfactory information. Jhe naturalist 

 of Madeira IB the Rev. Mr. Lowe. ruamiBiui, 



ni^«J^'l^''° GERANii-sis ( Tf'. T. E. B.).-YouT boscs are right for 

 planting Geranmm^ m for wintering. They will do very weU in a cellar. 



W« ^hn.rfi' u ?^ t" ^t ''"^".*^ P^"^^'^ ^^''' moulding and decaying 

 We should think the landing on the top of the stairs would keep them ve^ 

 weU providing you give them no water unless the leaves dag, and there is 

 no current of air rushing at them. We need not say frost must be excluded, 

 but It 18 an easy matter to move them to a warmer place in severe weather 

 and, whatever yon do, do not place them in a warm room to indace growth 

 motaT^^ coo' and dry, and so prolong the plants' existence without pro- 



CoLTURE OP CUANTHD3 Dampieei [Letghton B.).—\t requires a compoat 

 of sandy peat half, and turfy loam, with "a free admixture of silver sand, 

 free drainage, abundant pot-room — it ought never to become pot-bound ; 

 It should have sufficient water to induce free growth, but not a drop more 

 than is necessary, by which we mean that the soil should not be soddened 

 with water nor become dust dry, so dry as to check growth. A warm 

 (greenhouse temperature with abundance of air and light suits it exactly. 

 It does better planted out in the border of a greenhouse than in a pjt, and 

 lurely does any good after flowering once profusely. 



Preserving the Roots of Collectrd Plants (FMra).— The best way 

 to keep the roots of the plants you collect during your conrinental tours is 

 covered with damp sand in a botanist's tin collecting-box. 



Tank-heating {T. M.y Cheshire).— The water will flow in the tank 

 without a division, but much better with one. Though it may be done, 

 we do not approve of heating a large greenhouse with pipes from such 

 a tank, as the circulation will be languid. We would advise heating the 

 tank by taking the pipes through it. with a valve or a turncock where it 

 joins the greenhouse, but with the circulation complete in the tank, ar.d 

 only put on the greenhouse when desirable. This will ultimately be the 

 most economical plan, more especially if you cover your tank with wire. 

 We should, however, prefer slate, and if you u^e cocoa-nut fibre it will let 

 some vapour into it. That fibre is a bad conductor of heat, unless when 

 wet, and then it does well enough. A thick layer of it, and dry, will not 

 let the heat from your tank up. 



KiTCHEN-GAEDEsr Edgino (A iV'oricc).— Biicks laid so as to have one 

 of their angles upwards make an excellent edging. Thus A 



Heating two Houses from one Boiler {J. C, Cred iton). —Thert will 

 be no diflSculty in heating both houses from the same boiler ; but the boiler 

 must be sunk so deep that the top may be a foot below the level of the 

 return-pipe in the orchard-house. Then a T-P'pe with valves would serve 

 for the flow and return to both houses: or you may have a X return-pipe, 

 and take a single flow into a cistern higher than the flow-pipes in vinery, 

 and from thence take a flow to orchard-housa and vinery, to be used or 

 not as you desire. We see nothing to prevent your growing late Muscats 

 as you propose ; but we would decidedly alter the slupe if we should have 

 an upright wiill at the south side and an open drain there. As it is 

 now, all the water that falls on the border will tend or fall to the front of the 

 house, aod sooner than that we would have no outside border, but a close- 

 cemented wall and depend entirely on the inside border. If you contem- 

 plated early Grapes it would be easy with the position of your border to 

 take a pipe through the bottom of it. 



Pears on Quince Stocks (TT. J7i/rf^r;.— Beurr^ Superfin. Fondante 

 d'Automne, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Beurrc Hardy, Josephine de Malines, 

 Baronne de Mello, Doyenne Gris, Winter Nelis, Beurr6 d'Anjou, Beurr^ 

 Sterckmaus. 



Arrangemrkt op Cl'ttings op Bedding Plants {J. B. C. 5.).— We 

 think it would be taking much trouble without producing any satisfactory 

 results. 



Self-registering Thermometer {J. 5ryrt«).— Certainly do not throw it 

 away. Write to Messrs. Negretti & Zambra, they will tell you what to do. 



Seedling TropjEOlum {W. F. 5.).— The bloom is brillant scarlet, but 

 there are many such, and too much depends upon the habit of the plant for 

 us to give an opinion upon its merits from a single flower. 



Apricot Trees in Pots {/. G.). — We are glad you have succeeded so 

 well with the Cherries. If you plant your Apricots out you will have less 

 trouble in watering; but you will have more trouble in root-pruning than 

 if you kept them in pots. On the whole, well nipped, and root-pruned 

 when neceesary, we think they do best planted out. 



Everoeeens for a North Aspect {A Subscriber].— Berhens aquifoliam, 

 B. empetrifolia, B. Darwinii ; Box, Blotched-leaved, Cnrled-striped, Gold- 

 edged, and Narrow-leaved; Euonymus japonicus; Holly, Gold-blotched 

 Hedgehog, Silver-striped, and Minorca. Hut what shrub will thrive 

 ** 18 inches from the foot of a Yew hedge ? *' Periwinkles might be used 

 for surfacing, of which there are numerous varieties. The roots of the Yew 

 will rob the other plants unless those roots are kept away by a wall or 

 boarding. 



Garden Infested by Insects (Jlf, S.).—lt you could burn the surface 

 soil conveniently that would be a certain cure, for it would nou only kill the 

 mature insects, but their eggs. The soil should be burnt fully 1 foot deep ; 

 but if that cannot be done, throw gas-lime over the surface, like salt to kill 

 weeds on walks. Allow this to remain on the surface a fortnight; then dig 

 it in, and keep forking the soil over through the winter. Be cautious 

 about using gas-lime where there are fruit trees, and do not sow or plant 

 anything until six months after the gas-lime is applied. We fear salt would 

 do little good, but liming would do the land no barm. Soot is liked by few 

 insects ; a thorough dressing with it helps to clear the soil of insect pests. 

 Guano sprinkled on ant-hills wUl mostly expel them; but arsenic mixed 

 with honey, or sugar and water, is greedily devoured by them, and it, of 

 course, destroys them. It must be kept out of the way of other animals. 



Pansy-culture [Leighton B.). — We presume your Good-Gracious Pansy 

 is planted out, and that no cuttings have been taken. Aithongh it is 

 late take cuttings at once, preparing first of all a frame to put them in. 

 Put 6 inches of coarse gravel at the bottom, then a layer of cocoa-nut fibre 

 or some such material, so aa to prevent stagnant water lodging. On that 

 place 4 inches of moderately rich loam and about one-fourih of leaf mouldy 

 cover the surface with silver sand 1 inch thick, and in this insert the cut- 

 tings taken from the tips of the young shoots at such a distance that they 

 stand clear of each other. Give a little water to settle the soil round the 

 cntt ngs, and shut up close. They will strike in about six weeks, when they 

 must have abundance of air and light, takins; off the lights in mild weather* 

 Another plan is to take up the old plants and winter them in a cold frame, 

 from which any quantity of cuttings can be taken in the spring ; but they 

 neither make such good plants nor flower so early. Pansies for early 

 flowering should be struck in July, planted in beds or borders in September 

 9 inches to 1 foot apart. Cuttings struck late do well enough for summer 

 display, and spring-struck cuttings make fine autumn-blooming planta* 

 We prefer potting Pansiea into small pots early in autumn and wintering 

 them in a frame, and we shall follow that plan with our Double Pansies and 

 take HO end of cuttings from them next spring, and have a fine bloom right 

 through the summer and autumn. 



Name op Pink {A. Z.).— It is a good double hybrid Pink; but we do not 

 know that it has any special name. 



