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Sowing Pvnsy Seed ^Lci(iUon B.).-Tbe middle of September 13 late 

 enough to row Pansy seed, the beginning of thatmontb being the best time 

 <o secnre good plants for bloomiuj! next season. Seed may be so™ in early 

 sprinc 11 botes, and a little bottom heat afforded until the plants appear, 

 when tjo much air oanno; b3 given. The plants will thns be hardened-ott, 

 when they may be pricked into the beds where they are intended to bloom. 

 They will flower towards autumn. September-sown Pansies flower earlier 

 than spring-sown, and are finer. We know nothing of Good Gracious 

 Pansy seed. 



Moles ( W. 7?.).— They uproot your Celery in searching for worms and 

 other insects which harbour in the manure at the roots of the plants. \\ e 

 know of no mode of getting rid of them except by trapping. 



Stuawbeeries toe FoaciNO (M. a.).— Tour pots of Strawberries put 

 on a high shelf in the greenhouse for forcing may be kept dryish, but not 

 dry, tor if tco drv you will cause the flower-bnds to perish, even when tlie 

 outside leaves seem to stand it. You will do the same thing if they are kept 

 very wet. Before you started them they would be better plunged in a cold 

 pit or frame. 



DiELTiEi crccLLARiA Cdltdrk (.A. J?.).— The difficulty is to grow this 

 plant at all without flowering it. It require: a moderate light and free soU, 

 and all the sun and air practicable. The roots do not do well when planted 

 deep, a few inches below the surface being deep enough. The roots require 

 takiiij up occasionally, and their quantity reduced, or they very soon come 

 rank an! flower very little or not at all. 



Soil foe Mitraeia coccinea (Caf/eji).— Peat half, turfy loam quarter, 

 and silver sand the remainder. A cool greenhouse temperature suits it, 

 abundance of water when growing, and a rather moist atmosphere, but 

 the shoots cannjl have too much li^ht and air when the growth is made. 

 The roofs require confining in a rather small pot for the size of the plant, 

 and to be kept dry during the winter, but not so as to cause the leaves to fah. 



Tdberoses iFTEE FLOWERING (S. R. i:.).— They do not flower well the 

 second season ; but if you choose to try them you may take the bulbs out 

 of the soil and keep them in a cool dry place until plantmg time, or you may 

 keep them in the pots with the soil dry, repotting them in spring. 



Olea.ndee Cvttings (/ifein).— Spring if there be any half-ripened cut- 

 tings on the plants, or any time when there is. They stnke freely m water, 

 and so do many other plants. 



Fee-vs n.-iDER A North Wall (4 Lover of Ferns).— Y an could not have 

 a better place ; but we cannot tell you how to form the rocker.v. such 

 being more a matter of tasle than anything else. It may be formed of 

 stones, and roots of trees, and if these be placed so as to leave some good- 

 sized crevices between, and if the soil beneath be loosened, and it with the 

 crevices filled with loam and cocoa-nut dust in equal parts, there is nothing 

 to hinder your Ferns doing well. You will plant them so .that the tall 

 growers will be at the back and the dwarf in front. The border ia narrow, 

 but you will get over th it by making the rockery high at the back against 

 the wall. The rockery will best harmonise with the ribbon-border by being 

 regular in outline. Our " Fern Manual " would further assist you. 



Cliakthtjs for Bedding (Leighton S.). — Clianthus puniceus and 

 C. magniflcus are hardy, or nearly so, against a south wall. It might be 

 either of these you saw against a wall or trained round sticks in a bed, or it 

 might be C. Dampicri, but which we do not profess to know. Any or all of 

 them require sowing in spiiiig in sandy peat and loam, growing on in a 

 cool greenhouse or cold trame until established, and kept growing freely 

 through the summer, or planted against a waU at once. Plants for beds, 

 we should say, will need wintering in a greenhouse, and we are pretty 

 certain the flowers must be formed or forming on the plants, or they will 

 not flower at all outside. You do not say where you reside, and that 

 hinders our speaking decidedly, for there is the difference of a greenhouse 

 between the south and north. Clianthuses may do in the south outside, 

 but in the north they do no good. 



Trees for the Sea-side (H. C. S.).— Maple (Acer campestre, A. psendo- 

 platanus, and variegated); Horse Chestnut; Beech (Fagus sylvatica as- 

 pleoilolia, pendula, and purpurea); Lime (Tiha europffia, alba, pendula, 

 europ;Ea laciniala and parvifolia aurea, and pyramidalis) ; Elms (Llmu. 

 americana, campcstris, montana, and viminalis) ; Oaks (Quercus Cerria, 

 fastigiaU, Ilex, nigra, and rubra) ; Juglans regi.i Uciniata ; Tulip Tree ; 

 Platanus acerifolia, and occidentalis. The above are trees. Berberis ot 

 sorts, Arbutus, Box, Aucuba japonica, Cotoneaster, many sorts, Thorns, 

 Laurel= Ribes, Sorbus, Viburnum, Lilacs, Spirceas, Hollies, Azaleas, and 

 common Rhododendrons. We have seen most ot these by the sea on the 

 east coast doing moderately well. 



Pears for Espaliers (/iem).— Louise Bonne ol Jersey, Colmar d'Ete, 

 Bon Chrelien, Beurrfi Superfin, Alexandre Lambi^, and Gansel's Late 

 Bergamo:. 



Calceolarias [J. Tf'hUehead).—yfe never recommend tradesmen. If 

 you wriie to anv of the chief nurserymen and ask them to send you a cata- 

 logue of their Calceolarias you will be able to select for yourself. 



LlLlCM LANclFOLimi Repottino [A Subscriher since 1856).— If your 

 three bulbs were only planted last year, in pots U inches by 13 inches, they 

 will do one more year without further removal Had your pots been lees 

 we would have said. Repot. We have adopted both ways, and found 

 so little difl'erence, that unless the bulbs require separating we let them 

 remain two years in the same pots. Your Apple is the Gloria Mundi. Graft 

 it in March on any Apple tree, or on stocks of the wild Crab. 



Grape Vines for a New House (O. A., Beardamore].—ks you do not 

 mention whether you want the Grapes early or late, we suppose the latter, 

 and woo'd recommend the seven Vines vou propose to consist of three Black 

 Hamburgh?, one West's St. Peter's, 'one Lady Downes' Seedling, one 

 Alicante, and one White Grape, as Sweetwater. If, however, you contem- 

 plate forcing early, you may have the same number ot Black Hamburghs, 

 but you might substitute Barbarossa, Black Lombardy, and Mill Hill Ham- 

 burgh (a distinct one from ordinary Hamburghsi, for the other Black ones, 

 and you might tiy one Muscat ot Alexandria. We often see it do well ia a 

 warm house, and we doubt not it would do so with you. 



Chancellor Peach {J. JJouAins).— This variety is thus described in Dr. 

 Hogg's '-Fruit Manual :"— " Fruit oval, large, pale yellow, dark crimson 

 next the sun. Suture well dcflned. Flesh free, pale yellow, very deep red 

 at the stone, sugary, rich, and vinous. Stone oblong. Flower small. 

 Glands kidney-shaped. Middle of September. Its synonymes are Edgar's 

 Late Melting, Moisetle, and Steward's Late Galande." 



Vi.NE.noRDER (i!. 0. B.l.-Allhough the turf is green it will not be 

 detrimental. Chop it small and mix it well with the rest of the compost. 

 We should roast -that is, char it a little before so doing. 



Hardy Good-foliaged Clematis for a Trellis Ui EiMurgh 

 S-ths,-riber,.—^e fear it is difficult to have both g, od foliage and pretty 

 flowers on a Clematis. It would, therefore, be better if your place will 

 allow of it, to have some other evergreen creeper mixed with the Ijlema.is 

 to give appearance m wmter-say, tor instance, a Cotor.easter, of which 

 there are several varieties, and they are all hirdy The prettiest and best 

 Clematises we know are C. montana. C. vitalba, C. lanuginosa, C. azurea 

 eraudiflora, and C. Sieboldii, with some tenderer varieties, one called Sophia 

 bemg very flne. Clematises, however, rarely look well all the year, so that 

 it wou'd be better as above to have another plant to succeed them in 

 winter. 



Twelve CASiELLlA5(r. Smith. Briiton'. -ComUsae Lavinja Jlaggi, Sarah 

 Fro=t, Duchesse de Berri. Mxsta rosea. Countess of Derby, Princess 

 Frederick William of Prussia, Cup of Beauty, Moatuoni, Saccoa vera, Pcm- 

 cess Bacciochi, Roi Leopold, and Marchioness of Exeter. 



Mossrooms {A Lover of Mushroom3).-iia mere description can enable 

 us to pomt out the poisonous from the wholesome fungi, and to be an 

 wicertim guide is a character we shrink from. Those who eat Mushrooms 

 without having seen them, or without having them examined by a compe- 

 tent person, choose to run the risk, and must abide the consequences. 

 Dr. Badham's book on "British Edible Fungi" with co.oured plates, is a 

 good authority. 



Heatiho a CocDMBER-HonsE (/7«-).-We have no faith at all in your suc- 

 ceeding by taking the fliw-pipe at once so much below the level of the 

 boiler You had far better have a boiler and furnace sufficient y sunk for 

 that purpose, or raise the floor of the house sufliciently to have all ihe pipes 

 above the boiler. For early Cucumbers you would find this much better 

 than depending on a kitchen fireplace. For such a house, 10 eet at back 

 and 3i in front would be good elevation. Part of the top glass should move 

 and have ventilators in the front wall. 



Wall Pear Trees (Ptsris).— We would recommend you to plant Pears . 

 Red Doyenne, Baronne de Meilo, BeurrC- Diel, Knighfs Monarch and Marie 

 ™ui3e wou'd all do. (X. (?J.-You cannot do better than select froai those 

 you mention. Winter Nelis, Josephine de Mali.ies, Beurre de Ranee. 

 Beurrfi Sterokmana are what we would select from those you men -ion. 



Heativg a Vpiert (Omfju;.— We would allow the present Vines planted 

 ouufde to remaii, if they a?e at all in good order. TOose m the proposed 

 ho house parTcouid be taken down and kept in the fron . protected but 

 The gla s Lside so as to have a hothouse in wmter if desirable whilst he 

 Vines w»re resting 1 The four-inch pipe all round will be sufficient lor 

 the small g^eenh?use as tar as keeping out frost in cold weather Is con- 

 cerner 2 Th?sone;i^ch pipe aU round wUl not be suflicient for heat m 

 ?he ho house department, and we would alter the arrange-nent so as to 

 take two flow-pipes round the front of this part, cross with one pipe at he 

 end and make the back pipe the return-pipe, so as to hea this house in- 

 dependently of the greenhouse. Take the flow-pipe round the front of the 

 ^LnhoSse^onnecfed by valve or tap, to be opened vvhen necessary 

 3 Having pipes front and back you might have a shelf of 2 feet over 

 them ™d L feet from the floor, which would do for Vines in pots 01 

 anvThing else you particularly wanted. 'This with a Passage all round of 

 2rfeet would give you a bed of 7 feet in the oentre, and beneath that you 

 corld have a tank of 5 or 6 feet, divided m the middle, with a depth 01 

 torn 4 5 inches The bed above' it might be from 15 to 20 mches 4 The 

 ank may be made on the floor, it solid it ought to be as high as ^the P'pes 

 or it must be made watertight on the top. The tank may be employed for 

 numberless purposes-such as rearing and growing Vmes in pots, pro- 

 p^atfng aU Sier of things, and forwarding lots Asparagus, Sea-kale, 

 Rhubarb, &c., in winter. 5. Were it ours we would have two or three 

 four-inch pipes below the bed, and have no tank, surrounding the pipes 

 with rabbi?* 6. If the economical were chiefly an object, and as you have 

 a chimney close to the boiler-end of your house, we would take a fine from 

 to7tuinace beneath the boiler through the bottom of the proposed bed and 

 return to the chimney. If we did not do this, as there is another chimney 

 near the mWdirrthe back wall, we would take a strong A ae right along 

 Uie bed to that chimney, and thus Ret pretty well ^™°f °f ^ottom heat 

 for anything, and save our tank-makmg besides. ' . A smaU conical oi 

 saddle-back boiler will do all you want. 



Names of Frdit {E. C. IT.).— Your Pears are-1, Autumn Colmar ; 



2, Bonn d LleTs. sV Germain. (3fr ^'•'"'■-Yo^ar Pear u the Urban- 

 is-.e. «?. Betheh).-Vfe believe your Grape is the ^'nlIte Boma^ (^_ F. 

 Lombard).-!, This a remarkable-looking Apple and quite unknown to m,- 

 whatisitihisiory? 2, Yorkshire Greening ; 3, Hawthomden; 4, kmgo 

 the Pippins; 5, Fondante d'Automne. (i. £:.).-No. 3^ ^„^IJ?.kTi 

 Blanc -1 ADDle HoUandbury ; 2, unknown : 3, Apple Dumelow s heed- 

 ml\MUsranOldS-.bs/riber].-^onT Pears are, 1, White Doyenne 

 2 PassrColmir; 3, Louise Bonne of Jersey; 4, not known ; 5, Red 

 Doyinn6 Apples' 1, Ribston Pippin; 2, Hughes' Golden Pippm; 



3, Pearaon's Plate, 



Names of PLANis.-Some of our oorrespondents are iu the habU of 

 sending small h-agments of plants for us to name. Thi. requires from as 

 such a great exieuditure of time that we are <=on-peUed ta saj^ that we 

 cannot attempt to name any plant unless the ^P^-P^" ' , P"^"' i^f^S' 

 and flowers. {H. T. r.).-Your plants are-1, Po'^^™"" /^P?'i"f°^tu?a' 

 2, Lotus corniculatus; 3, Epl'oMum montanum ; 4 Atnplex patula. 

 (V Zl -1, the shi-ub with the red frmt is one of the Sp ndle irees, 

 Euonfmus, 'and we believe atro-purpurea, >, "^"7 °f N'>"_U Amer-ca 

 2, is the Honey Locust Tree, Oleditschia tricanthos. (^- ^;^£;'- ,^ r u^t 



called. The colour is most likely affected by exposure The Fems^^^e 



^^s^ z'l^^r.. 't i!:^^^^zj^^ rthrvo^n. 



shoots inserted in sand under a bell-glaes. 



