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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTTJKE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



Ottober 20, 1863. 



TRADE CATALOGUES KECEIVED. 



W. H. Davis, Newbiu-y, Berks. — Desciiptive Catalogue of 

 Selected Roses. 



A. Verschaffelt, 50, Eue du Chaunie, Ghent. — Catalogue of 

 New Plants. 



COA^ENT GAEDEN MAEKET.-Oct. 17. 



The supply both of fruit and vf getablps is amply fufficient for the demand. 



Late Peaches may still be obtained, and a lew Melons. Of foreign Gr«pes 

 Here is an abundance. The Potato market is still heavy, and some diseased 

 samples are makins their appearance. Cut flowers mainly consist of 



Orchids, P.oses, Pelargoniums, Asters, MariRO'.ds, Violets, Mignonette, and 



Wallflowers. 



FKUIT. 

 s. d. s. d I 



Apples J sieve 1 6 to 4 Mulberries quart 



Apricots doz. Oranptes. 100 



Mgs doz. 16 2 6 



Filberts i Nuts 100 lbs. 55 75 



Grapes, Hamburchs. lb. 16 5 



Hambro's, Foreign 9 16 



Unseats 3 6 



Lemons 100 8 14 



Melons each 16 4 



Beans.Broad hush. 



Kidney i 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 & Pumpk., each 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish ... bundle 



Peaches doz. 



Pears bush. 



dessert i sieve 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plums J sieve 



Quinces doz. 



6 too 

 12 



Walnuts bush. 14 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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

 partmental wiiters of the " Joiu-nal of Horticiiltui'e 

 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 HorticiiU 

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

 Jelly-like Sub.->tance (H. A. J.l.-It had become entirely liquid, but 

 JIL if • n 11™^'" """ " " Tremellanostoc, acryptogamicplantiAihe 

 f,^= li', .^l' " "'I?"' """i frequently found on gravel walks. It is some- 

 times called Stat-slough, it being popularly considered as an emanation from 



fJ^^r.^"^ OCT ViNF,s [J. r., Su'ansea).~\Ve would advise you not to 

 turn out your Vines at any eeason. Turning out Vines is only necessary 

 and advisable when the vinery has to be turned to some account during the 

 ?!^n [^^ ^?^V'\^} rest-such as for forcing anything else requiring a 

 temperature too high for Vines. If this be desired in your case, {he Vines 

 I^!n r^ ^?7* * ^"^' ^°^ '^ '' °°' ""^o^ ^o e^PO'^*^ them unprotected to more 

 fS ^r^f. 1 n ' ^^^ ''°™*' covering of mats or straw should be put over them 

 ^Wh fh f > ■^'''n ''''^" weather. The best management for Vines from 

 which the fruit IS all cut early in October, is to keep them as cool and airy 

 as possible all the winter. The temperature f^hould not exceed 40" In the 

 case of ^ nies that have not well ripened their wood a little nre heat and a 

 circulntion of warm dry air should be applied immediately the fruit is cut, 

 and continued till the young wood becomes quite brown and tirm. As soon 

 Sim f^""^^ f ^ ^^^^ ^^-^^ ^^''''^^ b« pruned. All other particulars you 



w 11 learn from the treatise sent according to your wish. Sanders - On the 

 \ ne, is pubhshed at our office. If you eend sixty-two postage stamps 

 with your add less you can have it free by post. ^ »- fc t- 



Gbapb ViNts Weak (An Old Sub.sniher).-'To make your Vines stronger 

 iS^^r'^ -J-f-"'^, ^ ^"'^'Jredweight of superphosphate of lime to the eight-feet 

 border. This, however, would not prevent shanking. If you h;ive given 

 air enough the cause of the shanking is deep roots or undrained roots-that 

 ^MV^'r rV"^^ ^i""'^ ^^^ *'^*'''>" ^ ""^P- If '■'■'^"i stagnant water, a deep 

 dram in front ol your flower-border would do mucli, as most likelv the roots 

 are already beneath the flower-beds. We should be inclined to tr*y that and 

 the enriching the eight-feet border for this year, m;iking the superphosphate 

 go all over in three times or so, a month apait, choosing dry weather and 

 watering directly. To make perfectly sure against shunking, if from Bt.ignant 

 moisture and deep roots, lifting would be the great remedy; and in your 

 case 11 you lifted we would advise planting inside, taking the roots out^^ide as 

 well through openings in the wall, and confining them outside to the eight- 

 leet space. We would secure drainage at the same time, and use fresh soil, 

 especially in part. See account of Keele HaU as to future management. 



LiNCM FLAVDM CuiTiNos (M. ^.).- You had better keep the cuttings under 

 tne glass during the winter, taking it off in mild periods, but replacing it 

 over them in severe and very wet weather. This will protect them a little, 

 ror the plant is only hardy in some situations. Plant them out in the 

 beginning of April, moving each with a good ball. 



Asphalt Walks (^s/rr).— Asphalt, Bitumen, or Jew's Pitch, is found 

 floating on the Dead Sea and elsewhere. It becomes very hard by exposure 

 to the air, and its name has been appropriated to various artificial prepara- 

 tions, all of which owe their properties to the boiled gas-tar which enters 

 into their composition. Thus the asphalt felt is rendered waterproof 'or 

 shed-roofing, &c., by being soaked in that tar ; and asphalt walks are most 

 drj- and excellent when miide as follows:— Take two parts of very dry lime- 

 rubbish, and one part co^iI-at.hes, also very dry, and both sifted tine. In a 

 dry place on a dry day mix them, and leave a hole in the middle of the 

 heap as bricklayers do when making mortar. Into this pour boiliog-hot 

 coal-tar ; mix, and when as stiff as mortar, put it 3 inches thick where the 

 walk is to be. The ground should bs dry and beaten smooth. Sprinkle 

 over it coarse aand ; when cold pass a light ndler over it, and in a few days 

 the walk will be solid and waterproof. Y<'Ur bark-bed must be 4 feet deep ; 

 but will be an uncertain souice of heat unless enclosed and capable of being 

 partially stirred and mi.xed in the event of the heat declining. The price of 

 the "Cottage Gardeners' Dictionary " is 85. 



Stone Peach {L\ 5., Eampstend).^\\e never heard of this Florentine 

 Peach "something between a Peach and an Apricot, both in taste and 

 appearance." Probably it is one of those yellow-fleshed Peaches common 

 in the south of Europe. You may sow the stones now and put the pots in 

 your greenhouse. The plants will appear next spring ; but they will not 

 be exactly like their parent, probably in any respect. To obtain the exact 

 variety you must procure some buds. 



Vines for a Cold Vinery (Lex).— As you only look to the profit of 

 their culture, there are no better Vines for your purpose than the Black 

 Hamburgh and Black Champion. 



Calckolarias after Flowering (J. F. ff.).— Take the plants up with a 

 moderate-sized ball, and place in pots very little larger than the ball, just 

 sufficient to contain the roots without thrusting them in. Leave all the 

 top on the plant for about a fortnight, when all the old wood may be 

 removed, being careful to retain the young wood. They will do very well 

 in the pit, but you must give no more tire heat than enough to dry up damp 

 and exclude frost. Such plants afford numerous cuttings in early spring, 

 which strike readily in a little bottom heat, whilst the plants lliemaelves 

 bloom finely in May in the greenhouse, or in April if few cuttings are taken. 

 When spring-struck cuttings are rooted and hardened-oflf they may be 

 planted in nursery-beds in some sheltered situation, adding some leaf 

 mould to the ordinary soil, putting in the cuttings 6 inches apart each 

 way, and pressing the soil firmly round them. Water copiously, shade 

 from !jun, and protect at night from frost with mats. Such cuttings make 

 nice busby plants by the beginning of June, when they may be transferred 

 to the beds, taking them up with a ball They grow more freely than 

 plants that have had their roots cramped in small pots during the winter. 



VouNG Peach Trkes Unfruitful {J. F. £".).— Try what less pruning 

 will do towards rendering your trees more fruitful. If the trees are very 

 vigorous cut the leading shoots back but one-fourth their length, and the 

 bearing shoots to 9 inches, and leave them that distance between each. 

 If the wood ripens well and gross growths are not made late, we do not see 

 what is to hinder them fruiting another year. However, should they make 

 rampant growths which do not ripen, and are not well studded with bloom- 

 buds, take them up, plant on the surface, and cover the roots with 3 or 4 

 inches of soil ; tread it tii-ra if light, and mulch the surface where the roots are 

 to preserve them from frost and the drought and heat of summer. If 

 the border is rich and deep it should be made shallower, 20 inches of 

 tenacious loam on a concreted bottom with perfect drainage being the 

 essential elements of a Peach-border. If your border is all right and the 

 roots not deep, be content with a few fruit, as your trees will be all the 

 better and the crops much finer in future years than when thf?y are allowed 

 to bear heavy crops before the tree is half formed. For propagation direc- 

 tions buy our " Garden Manual," which you can have free by post for twenty 

 postage stamps from the office of this Journal. 



llooT-pRUNiNG Old Fkdit Trees [.<1 iVoyjVe). — Root-pruning will only 

 be beneficial to trees which are over-luxuriant, and that is not likely to be 

 the state of your old fruit trees. They probably are weakly and mosa- 

 covered. If so, paint them over with a creamy mixtuie of quicklitne, 

 manure the soil, and keep it mulched throughout the dry weather in 

 summer. 



Quantity of Tobacco Required for Fdmioatino {R. T, S.). — Two 

 ounces of shag, if the pit 12 feet by 8, is 2 feet in depth, and four ounces if it 

 is double that depth. The smoke to remain in until it vanishes. It will do 

 so in about an hour ; but sooner in a dry than damp atmosphere. The 

 plants must be diy when smoked. 



Ppopaoatino Centadrea candidissima and C. aroentea {R. T, B.).— 

 To obtain a stock keep the plants in a dry airy place until spring, when 

 cuttings may be taken when the plants have young shoots about 2 inches 

 long. They strike freely in silver sand if placed in a little bottom heat. Seeds 

 sown in spring make good plants by that time twelve months. 



Mig(*o.settb for Conservatory (./. J. J.).— li is too late now to sow 

 seed for the decoration of the conservatory in winter and spring. However, 

 if you have any plants in the garden, nice bushy young plants that have not 

 flowered, take them up with good balls and pot them in 24-5ized pots in a 

 compost of light turfy loam and leaf mould with a free admixture of silver 

 sand. Water sparingly and keep in the shade for a few d.iys; then pinch 

 off the flowers. Give just enough water to keep them growing during 

 the winter, and place them near the glass in a well-ventilated part of the 

 greenhouse or conservatory. Snch plants bloom freely througiiout the 

 winter and spring, hut are not so fine as plants raised and grown for the 

 purpose. We will be in time with an article telling you how to obtain fine 

 plants for another winter. Sanvitalia procumbcns is worth little as an 

 edging. It would not last through the summer in good condition. 



Myrtle Leaves Diseased {A iSuhscriber, Ma}ichestci-}.~They are very 

 severely infested by the scale insecL Wash the leaves and all the branches 

 with a creamy mixture of soft soap, flowers of sulphur, and tobacco water. 

 Boil halt a pound of tobacco in two gallons of water, dissolve in it 1 lb. of 

 soft soap, with which 1 lb. of flowers of sulphur has been made into a 

 paste. Leave the plant for two days after being thus washed, and then 

 wash it in water at the temperature of 120**. Give your plants more and 

 moister air. 



Six Dauk Hybrid Perpetual "Rosks {Inquirer's name lost). — Empereur 

 He Maroc, Eugi^ne Appert, Alezandie Dumas, Caidinal Pairizzi, Madame 

 William Paul, and Princess Mathilde. 



