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JOUKNAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ October 13, 1S63. 



Gava fire to late houses of Vines to prevent dampin<j acd 

 eiti-a ail- in fine sunny days ; left air on sU night, though 

 not much, and will only close up in a serere fi-ost. Eepotted 

 a few StrawTjeiTy plants from 48's to 32's, as we thought 

 we had rather too many in small pots. Went over all the 

 lot, weeded them, cut laterals, and shortened any leaves 

 turning brown. We will erpeet more to brown presently, 

 but will leave them untU forcing time for protection. 

 Gathered pretty well the last of the Melons, and will let 

 them ripen in the houses, as we now want the room ; and 

 unless the weather is fine and bright. Melons are rarely of 

 much use in the end of October. Will lay Strawberry-pots 

 on then- broad sides if the bad wet weather continues. Put 

 old sashes over part of late Vine-border, and straw covers 

 beneath to throw the rains past them. Gathered fruit in 

 dry sunny days, as then it can be stored in wet days. 



OKNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT. 



Eegulated the flower-beds, which are yet passable. Eolled 

 walks and lawns. Swept leaves fi-om latter, which is like 

 washing a Mackamoor white, and would require more labour 

 than we can supply, if done at all, every day, or second day. 

 Took up a few things out of the beds, as Cloth of Gold and 

 Golden Chain Geraniums, to be followed with a few of other 

 variegated sorts. Took up also some lilac Lobelias and 

 others of various colours — one much like the old bicolor and 

 with some resemblance to Paxtoniana. Gathered a few 

 seeds in di-y days. Tied-up what the vrinds had blown down. 

 Cut over some Humeas getting dingy in colour. Prepared 

 a pit with a Httle bottom heat for the above variegated 

 Geraniums, where the pots will be plunged but the heads 

 kept airy and dry. Went on as occasion offered with Cal- 

 ceolaria cuttings, adding four more lights to the previous 

 ten, which we suppose must do, and filled about a dozen 

 of the moveable wooden boxes with Calceolaria amplexicaidis, 

 the only one that will not stand so much as the rest of damp 

 and cold, and therefore put in boxes that they may be 

 moved where there is the least dry heat in continued dull 

 frosty weather. Thinned creepers in conservatory, and took I 

 most greenhouse plants under cover. Eeaths and Epacrises I 

 may still remain in cold pits, to have all the benefit of the } 

 sun in fine days, and abundance of air at other times, unless 

 when there is fi-ost ; but even they wiQ do as well in an aii-y 

 part of the greenhouse. Gave more room to young Pelar- j 

 goniums, and will soon have to repot a lot that was cut 

 down rather late and which is now breaking nicely. Moved 

 all Ferns, stove plants, &c., out of the late vinery and ! 

 phiced them in one just cleared, until the small stove-house 

 undergoing alterations is prepai-ed for them, when many \ 

 things win requu-e fresh surfacing if not fi-esh potting ; and 

 Stanbopeas, &c.. will need fresh doing-up at the sides of the 

 baskets, &c. The climbers have been laid down and covered j 

 with mats in the meantime, tiU the house shall be ready 

 for them. 



As a preparation for all departments, have collected — < 

 or rather, perhaps it would be truer to say, carried off— some 

 soil from the sides of highways and byroads, for there are 

 now so many new rules about roads and sui-veyors that it is 

 almost as difficult to take a load from such places as to carry 

 off a handkerchief full of earth from one of the London 

 parks. Given a worthy employer that would not on any 

 account have a sod taken fi-om his park or other pasture, 

 and what is a poor fellow to do when surveyors are upon 

 him if he touches the sides of the highway, even though he 

 is doing good to the road all the time? Well, we know 

 something of the effects of a soft answer and courteous 

 manners; and to all young friends who are in any such 

 troubles we advise a fi-ee use of the latter weapons instead 

 of a stern unbending assertion of customs and rights, and 

 all the rest of it. We have thus managed to take a few loads 

 of fibry tm-f fi-om a roadside, and it v.-m be built into a 

 stack 1 yard wide, thatched with long tm-fs of itself, and 

 valued almost as if it were gold. — E. F. 



Beurrt', and Duchess d- Ango-ile i:e. the las.-naraed being very good. Apples 

 chiefly consioC of Rib.-iton, VVarwicksaire, and Golden Pippins, and King of 

 tho Pippins. The best (Jobs -ire b-ingiag 65s. per 100 lbs , but inferior 

 simples may be had at 553. Of PotatJes there is still a very beav? supply. 

 Cut flowers consist of Ovcliids, Pelargoniuais, Asters, Dahlias, Rises, and 

 Mijaoaette. 



E. d. s. d I 



>. d. 8. d 



Apples J sieve 1 6 to 4 N'ectarincs doz. to 



Apricots doz. 



Figs doi. 16 2 



Filberts it Nuts 100 lbs. 55 73 



Grapes, Hambnrghs. lb. 16 5 



Muscats lb. 3 6 



Lemons 100 8 14 



Melons each 16 4 



Oranges 100 



Peaches doz. 



Pears bush. 



dessert ^ sieve 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plums ^ sieve 



I Quinces doz. 



12 



Hulberries quar; 6 9 | Walnuts buah. 14 6 20 



■VEGETABLES. 



Beans, Broad bush. 



Kidney ......^ sieve 



Beet, led 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 & Pumpk., each 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish ... bundle 



d. a. 



to 

 6 4 



6 

 4 



Leeks bunch 



Lettuce score 



Mushrooms pottle 



Mustd. & Cress, punnet 



Onions bunch 



pickling quart 



8 Parsley bunch 



8 ' Parsnips doz. 



2 ' Peas busb. 



10 Potatoes sack 



1 , Radishes doz. bunches 



2 6 Rbubaib bundle 



I Savoys per doz. 



, Sea-kale basket 



Spinach sieve 



' Tomatoes ^ sieve 



4 I Turnips bunch 



d. s. d 



3 too 



3 



2 



3 



6 



COYENT GAEDEN 5IAEKET.-0ct. KX 



The market continue<> well stocked with all kindi' of fruit and vegetables, 

 and heavy supplies of the former are coming in from abroad. There i^ 

 scircely any alteration from last week's quotation?. The supply of Eneliah 

 Melons is falling off. Late Plum8 are plentiful, and so are Pears. These 

 consist of Louise Bonne of Jersey, Marie Louise, Gaascl'j Bergamot, Brown 



TO CORRESPONDENTS, 



*^* We request that no one will write privately to the de- 

 partmental writers of the *' Journal of Horticultui'e, 

 Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so 

 doing they ai*e subjected to unjustifiable trouble and 

 e^ense. All communications should therefore be ad- 

 dressed solely to The Editors of the Journal of HorticuU 

 ture, ^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 wiite them 

 on separate communications. Also never to send more 

 than two or three questions at once. 



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

 week. 



Stsam Pipes (A Subscriher).—'We fear that common drain-pipes with 

 open, joints will not answer to convey steam as you propose. We should 

 employ four-ioch hot-water pipe^, for we are certain that they would 

 coat no more than making a flue to put the drain-pipes in, which is quite 

 unnecessary for top heat. Pot draio-pipea 4 iHches m diameter, with the 

 joints cemented, will answer better than dram-pipea. Your other arrange- 

 meots are unique ; but aa you say nothing about ventilation, we are obliged 

 to give you a hmt that Cucumbers will need an airing daily in mild weather, 

 and be none the worse for a little fresh air at all times if you have heat 

 enough. You should have at least two four-inch pipes for top heat, but one 

 is ample for bottom heat. We need not tell one more conversant with 

 steam than ourselves that the pipes must be laid so that water can drain 

 froui them. We are much pleaed to see me ins adopted to uUlise the waste 

 steam of manufictories, for it is evident that many garden stmctures might 

 be economically heated in the way you propose. We know of some that 

 are heated by the steam from an engine, and they answer perfectly. 



WiwTEttiNO Emperor and Beobipton Stocks {Liverpno']. — We would 

 advise you to pot sufficient of the Emperor and Brompton Stocks and 

 winter them in a cold frame, or some place where protection can be given 

 in severe weather, for, though your plants stood last winter in an exposed 

 situation, it is just probable the fonhcoming winter may be as severe as 

 the last was mild. The beginning of March is quite early enough to plant 

 them in the beds ; but will not their flowering interfere with the planting 

 of the summer occupants of the beds ? 



Aphelandba, Leopoldi CuLTtiHE (Jfrj. W.). — It is a very ornamental 

 stove plant, but by no means rare. Cuttings of the young half-ripened 

 shoota strike freely in a compist of peat and loam hair", silver sand half, 

 placed in small pots and plunge 1 in bottom heat ranging from 75'^ to 8tJ^. The 

 cuttings need potting when struck, a compost of one half peat and the other 

 half turfy loam, with a liberal admi-xture of silver sand, suiting them. 

 In future seasons it will require potting in early spring and occasioaally 

 stupping or cutting back the shoots to keep it dwarf, as it is apt to become 

 straggling if not stopped. An ordinary stove temperattire suits it, or any 

 place with abundance of light where the temperature does not fall below 

 55^ in winter. 



EvEROfiEENR FOE A ScEEEH (L. J. i? ).— We koow of no evergTecD trees 

 except Yews, Fira, and other coniferous trees lliat attain any size quickly, 

 and even these grow n > faster than Evergreen Oike. We should plant a 

 row of Lime trees and face them with evergreen shrubs, or have a mixed 

 bnrdiT of deciduous and evergreen treej and shrubs, employing Lime, 

 Plane, and Elms, and Arbor Vitiei, Laurels Portugal and common, Rhodo- 

 dendrons, Holliesj &c. ' 



