October 20, 1863. ] JOUENAL OP HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



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Walnvt Teeb not Bearing (Zei).-You will find an article in anotlisr 

 page replying to the inquiries you have made. 



Heating a Small Geeenhouse iOyni,,g).--\V<! Ao not ^no^ ^hot 

 pipini? you have, and, therefore, cannot say uhelher you jvil have «"»= ™t- 

 Wah" iron plate or' two you could bank the fuel at bedtime against the 

 -eseryoir at the back of the parlour are. You might also secure a Rood 

 amount of heat from a good gas-burner placed beneath a concare vessel 

 and a pipe from it going out of doors to carry away the '™<^^^;, Pf^X,* 

 small stove with a small iron-chimney through the roof would be the simplest. 

 We object to any stoves inside that have no outlet lor the products of the 

 combustion. 



Heating a Pit (A SuSscr;6er).-We can hardly understand how you 

 have used your iron vessel 3,^ feet long, 2 feet wide, and 9 inches deep. If 

 set upon a hot flue, and 6 inches of sand placed on the bottom of it, you 

 would have heat enough if you covered the top with moveable glass. Yon 

 do not tell us when you tried your cuttings. Verbenas need no extra heat 

 in autumn. The idea of taking a flue round su.h a trough and setting it 

 in a two-light frame seems to be doing much work for little use. It you 

 have no regular heat in your flue, the best way to use such a tank for pro- 

 pagating in a cool greenhouse, would be to elevate it either on the flue or 

 otherwise. Drill a hole at bottom for tap or plug, to empty it when desir- 

 able. Leave space for 3 inches of water at bottom. Support in that tttm 

 slate, covered with 2 or 3 inches of sand, have a pipe and funnel to put in hot 

 water, and draw off when cold-say once a-day. Wrap the tank round 

 with cocoa-nut matting or cloth of any kind to prevent radiation of heat. 

 Your tank over them wUl not be so good as one of wood. For small pro- 

 pagating-houses, see no end of descriptions, and watch for a notice ot Mr. 

 Lane's propagaling-houses. We could say nothing as to your tank standing 

 fire heat unless we saw it. 



Veebena and Petonia Ccttisgs (Anna ArdaQk).— As they are well 

 rooted you may top them now being too much drawn. Give them more air 

 and light 



POETET (G. D.).— The verses would do very well for a lady's song, but 

 they are not suitable for our Journal. Very few people are aware that rhyme 

 is not necessarily poetry. 



JosKPHixE HE Malikes Pear (F. Hawea).-The following is the descrip- 

 tion given in Dr. Hogg's " Fruit Manual :"— " Fruit about medium size. 

 Skin yellow with a greenish tinge on the shaded side, and with a tinge of red 

 on the side next the sun ; the whole surface strewed with large russet spots. 

 Eye open, set in a rather sh.illow depression. Stalk three quarters ol an 

 inch long, stout, and inserted in a narrow cavity. Flesh yellowish, with a 

 tinge of red, melting, and very juicy, sugary, vinous, and richly flavoured, 

 with a high rosewater aroma. A most delicious Pear, m use from February 

 till May. The tree is hardy, and an excellent bearer." No better aspect 

 than a south wall could be had for Green Gages. 



Insects (J. E. J.).— The caterpillar you have sent, found devastating a 

 Kose tree, is that of one of the moths forming the family Geometndae, and 

 appears identical with Geometra plumaria, Hb. Should you find any other 

 specimens we shall be obliged by your sending them to us, but we beUeve 

 its connection with your Rose tree was accidental.— W. 



Various (B".).— We have no faith in sawdust for mulching, and do not 

 like it at all unless charred or thoronghly rotten. We should employ the 

 peat earth or heath soil as described. Pulverised freestone clippings will 

 answer as well as silver sand for the purposes to which it is applied if the 

 freestone is free from chalk, and still more, is not impregnated with magne- 

 sian Umestone. In these cases it will not take the place of silver sand. 

 The phosphatic green sand we fear would be more flt for manure than lor 

 striking cuttings. Sea sand would not answer for p;opagating purposes 

 unless thoroughly washed, neither would pounded chalk or inarlstone by 

 themselves or mixed with such sand. Such sand in heavy land would be a 

 good dressing for Sea-kale, Asparagus, &c., and a sprinkling of it would do 

 good to most kitchen gardens. Ground vineries, we presume, are what 

 are called curates' vineries. The Vines are planted, and the stems trained 

 either over a trench, or some 9 inches above the ground, the ground being 

 covered with slate and a hipped roof of small dimensions— say 18 or 

 24 inches wide, and 15 to 18 inches on the side of span, and if moveable, 

 lengths of 6 feet or so are placed over them, set upon bncks every 2 feet 

 or so, which adroit enough of air between them in the hottest days. W e 

 do not know your place of residence ; but we have more faith in your 

 succeeding by this mode than by planting Vines in the open ground and 

 training them to rods, as done in France and on the Rhine, much as we do 

 Raspberries here. It is just possible that in a warm sheltered spot yon 

 would succeed, llr. Kivers used to succeed pretty well with these ground 

 vineries, of which vou will flnd a drawing and description in N o. 23, page oO. 

 The slates, whether on the level or as forming the sides of the trench, were 

 covered with sulphurous paint. 



Flies Attacking Grapes (/. J-orresO.-Prevention is your only remedy. 

 Keep the flies out of the vinery by putting lace-net over the windows and 

 ventilators. 



Alocasia Lowii Cultdee (CeorjfSi-mX-IfitbewellestabUshedinthe 

 pot, and the roots matting round the pot, give it a shift into a pot 3 inches 

 wider than the one it is now growing in. Drain well, and pot with a com- 

 post of turfy peat and flbry loam three-fourths, equal parts of both, 

 pieces of charcoal the size ot a hazel nut, and silver sand the remainaer of 

 a whole. It, like its congener Alocasia metallica, requires a high stove 

 temperature and abundance of atmospheric moisture. A temperature or 



65^ ' nH T,nt Inwor than fiO^ hv nicht. iU wiOtCr, wlth 3 TISC Ot 10" OT IS Dy 



iperature and abundance ot atmospnenc niuisiuic. a. v=i..f>='»— ■" — 

 65% and not lower than 60^ by night, in winter, with a rise of 10° or 15 by 

 day is about the proper winter temperature, during which it shouia oe 

 kept moderately dry at the root. It will need shifting again as growth 

 commences in spring, a more frequent appUcation of water, and an in- 

 crease of temperature ; 70' by night is not too high, whilst in so™™" 

 it will not harm this plant if the temperature range to lo'hy night, with 

 an increase of 10" in clondy weather, and from 15" to 25" with sun by day. 

 It should be kept nesr the glass, or it is apt to become drawn, and must 

 have abundant atmospheric moisture and water at the root when growing. 



AKOMATHECA CKrENTA SlED SOWING {M. B.).-SowiB spring in a gentle 

 heat Keep there until the plants appear, then gradually hardeu;off and 

 grow on in the greenhouse. Another way is to sow the seed outside, and 

 thus save the trouble of raising in heat. The former plan, however, make.^ 

 a plant in half the time u{ the latter. It is quite hardy, as you no doubt 

 know, and we can say with you, '■ It is a great favourite heic," and only . 

 needs seeing, though it is as old as the hills, to win a place in every garden. A 



Peaches for 'Wall in the Noetu of Ireland {Belfast).— \on will flnd 

 Early York, Barrington, Bellcgarde, and Noblesse, do very well with you. 



FiiRNs Infested with Theips (Wcm)-- You cannot smoke too soon ; 

 but do it gently, yet filling the house with smoke. Do this two nights in 

 succession, syringing the plams the morning after each smoking ; but you 

 must have the foliage diy before smoking, though you may and ought o 

 sprinkle every available ^urface with tepid water twice daily, akingcae 

 not to wet the fronds. This will surcharge the atmosphere with biimidity 

 or moisture, and that is what Ferns require. You must not expect the first 

 nor even the second smoking to thoroughly eradicate t'lethrips, though it 

 will destroy all the perfect insects, yet there are eggs wh ch will hatch in 

 r/ew days: therefore the moment you see thrips smoke at night, and 

 continue to do this until a thrips cannot be found. Our " lem Manual 

 would save vou much of the trouble you complain of. 



GNAPHALn lanatu,! Peopaoatino (Jlf. i).).-Cnttings of the young 

 shoots strike readily in loam, leaf mould, and silver sand in equal parts, 

 plcing hem i^ a bottom belt of T5°. They also strike freely in a green- 

 Sous" w th a bell-glass over them, but are longer about it. Cuttings are best 

 out in in \UEU5t which are potted-ofT when struck, wmtered along with 

 ?he o?he"r bSg plants, and'every way having '^^'«f "^"^ "'.f ",^A°he 

 It is rather imDatient of damp, but not more so than \erbenas. 11 the 

 n ants are placed in a wa™ greenhouse, say .W by night, in the beginning 

 of Februarrthey wUl grow freely and each give many cuttings in J arch ; 

 andlf they be taken off with four joints, cut immediately below the lowest 

 ?eaf transversely; the two low-est leaves removed, and inserted round pots 

 n silver sand wi^h a little loam and leaf mould m it gently watered through 

 a flnp rose and then Blunged in a brisk bottom heat of . j» to 80 , the cut- 

 tinls wm root in a few days. Then they must be hardened-ofl' gradually, 

 potfed into 48-sized po°s in a compost of loam and leaf mould m equal 

 Sarts wUh a little silver sand intermixed. Such make flrst-cass edgmg 

 f.lAiits second to no silver-edging plant in cultivation. 



Salvia ?ATDLA NOT FlowSrino (J/. Z).).-It is a biennial from Portugal 

 and "hardy ^n most locaUties. You have coddled it, and n.a.ly ki ed it 

 with kindnels Plant it in the garden border next summer m the full sun 

 Tnd rive i?some n ce soil as a Utile leaf mould, but not strong manure, and 

 ?hus induce f"ee growth. Its existence is only prolonged by strikmg it 

 thus inauce "^^ ^rowi" j jjj^,. biennials and even 



from ,'^""'"BS,X*^\;Ve process, and the/could be had stronger and 

 ?r«?'^owenng ?rom seedl Cuiuvatois will find nature's laws cannot be 

 on J brokeS with Sipunity, of which your plant affords an example. If 

 y"u'su eed^irobtaZng se'ed sow the spring Jollowing -JheoPen garden 

 iinless vou live in an exposed situition, when the plant hatt best oe ireaieu 

 arfhaHhaldv annual, only that it lives over the winter and flowers the 



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POULTRY^ BEEr andTHOPSEHOLDTHRONICLE. 



POULTRY EXHIBITIO^^S. 



When this is in our readers' hands the Crystal Palace 



alteration in time that has done away ^^^VsWs T^Bir- 

 this Show with the respected ^°tl\«%f ,f^,^^r^te for 

 mino-ham was a vei? wise one, and we hope it win oe lor 



^'^^e^re m^f ™unications from ^^^^J^^^^ 

 the lack of shows in the south and south-west ol J!-ngiana 



•' -Tis true, 'tis pity ; 'tis pity 'tis 'tis true ; 

 but we cannot help it. Exhibitoi. must go f^^^- fr°- 

 home in search of foemen worthy of ^^jr steei ^-^^ 

 the facilities of the present day, BirimnS^arn ^^l^<^'^l 

 London now than Eeigate was a ^^H^'^J^'^^ ^^ 

 advise our friends to enter at Burmmgham, ana we w^u 

 them the entees close on the 30th of.this month. 



It is well worth while to ti-j- conclusions at «^^t ^^f^^°^^ 

 There are giants there if you are gi-eedy of/°'J°"^jf''to 

 buyers are thick as leaves in J^'^^'^'^^JJ'li^^^. 

 dis'pose of your extra stof. ^ ^^t,^:^,^:: ^^ 

 ^ctoSes It Linear' shl:\.rpe:tfd here on a lai-ger scale. 



